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Submitted by RyanEstrada on March 13, 2008 - 15:07
My boy Pendleton Ward tells me that Kurtz and the gang were talking about me on one of the Halfpixel podcasts.... but he doesn't remember which podcast or which installment.
I want to know what they was saying about me! Does anyone listen and/or have heard them talking about me?
Give me a Webcomic, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby...
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on March 13, 2008 - 12:58
COMIXTALK
If you blog about comics (your own or others) you can now have those blog posts automatically show up here at ComixTALK too - just add the feed from your blog to your account here at ComixTALk and we'll automatically recreate your blog posts as Talk Posts here at ComixTALK (with a link back to your own blog in each post here). Click here to add a feed and click here if you need help on figuring out what is the feed for your outside blog.
As always thanks to the sponsors this week which include The Learn to Draw the Human Figure course, The World Famous Laugh Factory in Hollywood, the graphic novel Cash & Carry and the webcomic hosting service ReformedReality.com.
PODCASTANETS
A new Webcomics Weekly from the HalfPixel crew on building community around your webcomic. (Also if you've missed it the HalfPixel crews book How To Make Webcomics is now available in stores.)
Gigcast coverage of the 2008 WCCAs ceremony.
Digital Strips has a new podcast that considers whether I Can Has Cheeseburger? is a comic.
INTERVIEWS
Elanor Cooper interviews Sarah Ellerton, creator of Phoenix Requiem.
Jim Zubkavich was a guest on the Llama Report podcast recently.
NOT WEBCOMICS
Will the movie of Speed Racer score or suck? Nerd World has links to even more trailers.
Comic Foundry has some photos from the upcoming Watchmen flick.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Prompted by awards season (WCCAs, Eisners) Mr. Myth takes a look at where webcomics fit (or not) into short form and long form comics.
Webcomic Wire - 12/26/07
Submitted by NightgigTim on December 26, 2007 - 17:38
Drawn from sources that were too stuffed with food to run away…
Von Allan to be published by Girlamatic.
Here is the ComixTalk’s People of Webcomics list for 2007.Â
A Zuda update…
Image Comics promotes the book How To Make Webcomics coming soon from HalfPixel.Â
What webcomics do YOU like?
Moovok of Webcomics Anonymous posts a list of his favorites.
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Webcomic Wire - 12/26/07
Submitted by NightgigTim on December 26, 2007 - 17:38
Drawn from sources that were too stuffed with food to run away…
Von Allan to be published by Girlamatic.
Here is the ComixTalk’s People of Webcomics list for 2007.Â
A Zuda update…
Image Comics promotes the book How To Make Webcomics coming soon from HalfPixel.Â
What webcomics do YOU like?
Moovok of Webcomics Anonymous posts a list of his favorites.
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Call For Questions For Blank Label Comics
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on December 17, 2007 - 07:36
Back in February of this year, we hosted the results of a ComixTalk community interview with the members of the indepedent creators collective, Blank Label Comics. Given that this is an end-of-the-year kind of issue for ComixTalk, I thought it would be great to do another interview with the members of BLC so we could book-end the year between them.
Moreover, although there has been a good deal of press on Halfpixel, the new collective formed by Scott Kurtz and former BLC members Brad Guigar, Dave Kellett and Kris Straub, there is still plenty to catch up on with the six current members of BLC: Howard Tayler, David Willis, Paul Southworth, Paul Taylor, Steve Troop and Greg Dean. Please post your questions here -- I'll collect them on December 21st and send them out for answers with an eye to publishing the full story here in January 2008.
Looking Back Through 2007
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In years past (2004, 2005) we undertook the monumental chore of picking out the biggest headlines of the year. This year, I took another swing at it. So without further adu, here's the biggest webcomic headlines of 2007.
If I missed a story you think was key to this year, please post it in the comments to this article.
- Act-I-Vate
- Blank Label Comics
- Bomb Shelter
- Chemistry Set
- Dumbrella
- Half Pixel
- Platinum Studios
- Sugary Serials
- Zuda
- Alexander Danner
- Bill Barnes
- Brad Guigar
- Brad Hawkins
- Brian Fies
- Chris Crosby
- Corey Marie Parkhill
- Dave Kellett
- Dave Kelly
- David Malki!
- David Willis
- Gene Yang
- Gordon McAlpin
- James Duncan
- James Kochalka
- Jennifer Babcock
- Jerry Holkins
- Joe Dunn
- Joey Manley
- John Allison
- John The Gneech Robey
- Jon Morris
- Josh Lesnick
- Kris Straub
- Krishna Sadasivam
- Mark Mekkes
- Matt Shepherd
- Mike Krahulik
- Mike Russell
- Mitch Clem
- Nicholas Gurewitch
- Pete Abrams
- Rich Stevens
- Ryan Estrada
- Ryan Sohmer
- Scott Kurtz
- Scott McCloud
- Spike
- T Campbell
- Terrence Marks
- Thomas K. Dye
- Tom Brazelton
- Tyler Martin
- Zach Miller
- Achewood
- American Elf
- Penny Arcade
- PvP
- Sluggy Freelance
- xkcd
- Through The Looking Back Glass
In A Big Webcomic, Dreams Stay With You
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 26, 2007 - 10:09
Rolling Monday news update...
HEADLINES
- Dirk Deppey has a good roundup of recent steps by DC and Marvel to try and crack down on file-sharing of scans of their monthly comic books. It's their right to do so of course under the current copyright laws, but both companies are still not offering legal alternatives for consumers to obtain their current material in a digital format. Carrot and stick usually work better than just the stick.
BSC Webcomic Idol 2.0
- The voting was over last night
but it may still be going (I just voted). In any event, current results haveand Templar, AZ won with 60% of the vote to 40% for Lucid TV. This is the second year of this event and all things considered it seemed to go pretty well. Hopefully it drew some more attention to some worthwhile comics.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
- Anne@FLEEN plugs We The Robots and after giving it a read I'd have to agree. Creator Chris Harding also recently appeared on the Half Pixel Webcomics Weekly Podcast.
DEAD TREES
- Comics Worth Reading has a review of HeavyInk.com which aims to be "both Amazon and Facebook for comics".
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Neil Cohn writes about recent research on eye movement across the comic page. The research shows that for an average of 8.5 panels per page, there are an average of 20.3 fixations. Most of their study focused on panels that were skipped over for one reason or another. Two types of changes to the page showed significant effects in decreasing the rates that they were skipped: balloon position and panel layout.
Make Mine Six Month Old Marvel!
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 13, 2007 - 11:31
HEADLINES
- Dirk Deppey links to Marvel Comics new webcomic effort -- Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited as well as a USA Today story on the new site. The bottom line -- the site will feature 2,500 comics (nothing more recent than 6 months old though) for $9.99 a month, or $4.99 a month if you’re willing to commit for a year. Aren't these guys about 4 years late to the subscription model? Still it'll be interesting to see how it does and who becomes its audience (existing fans or newcomers to Marvel stories).
ADVERTIZING
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
- Reinder Dijkhuis brings back from hiatus his comic Invasion which will resume on November 21, on his Chronicles of the Witch Queen site.
AROUND TEH WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Randall Munroe entertains the masses at Carnegie Mellon.
- New dope track from KRiS-ONE at Halfpixel.com.
- Congratulations to Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo on becoming a dad.
- Neil Cohn writes about how using repurposed art for comics doesn't work well.
- The Moderate Voice blog names xkcd as it's top webcomic for 2007. Click here for their top 10 list. (h/t Tom Spurgeon)
I Come From A Monday Down Under...
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 5, 2007 - 15:55
COMIXTALK MAGAZINE UPDATES
- Lots of articles up this morning to kick off the November issue of Comixtalk: interviews with Howard Tayler, the new Halfpixel crew, comics creator and writer Debbie Ridpath Ohi and comics artist Ramon Perez; Doctor Haus reviews the webcomic Slackerz, and two feature articles: one from Patric Lewandowski examining the definition of comics, and one from Tim Broderick with advice on writing a query letter to publishers.
BUSINESS
- Todd Allen has an interview with Joey Manley and one of the investors in the new ComicSpace venture.
ZUDA, ZUDA, ZUDA!
- David Gallagher writes about writing for Zuda.
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Brian HibbsAbhay Khosla writes about the Zuda interface (and something about why webcomics should aim to be more disreputable than the print comics he sells.) - Paul O'Brien gives Zuda a grade of a C+. Seems early for report cards?
- Highway 62 focuses on the actual webcomics up on Zuda.
- Newsarama has an interview with many of the Zuda creators.
- The Beat has a round-up of posts on Zuda here.
OPINIONATED WEBCOMICS
- The SpinZone webcomics collective picks up its first conservatively-tilted webcomic, Geeks on Caffeine.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
- What happens on the pirate ship, STAYS on the pirate ship
- Debbie Ridpath Ohi updates her My Life in a Nutshell comic with a bit on her ComixTalk interview.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Monkey Law goes silent in support of the Writers Guild strike.
- Panels and Pixels has an extended interview with Monte Schulz on the recent biography on his dad Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts.
- Nightwish, heavymetal umlauters from Europe, rock out at Onezumi Studios.
- Seven Camels blog has scans of the "Comic Strip Artist's Kit" created by Carson Van Osten, a famous Disney artist who did many of the Disney comic books.
Webcomic Wire - 11/2/07
Submitted by NightgigTim on November 2, 2007 - 13:42
Drawn from seven seconds into the future…
Dave Kellett, Kris Straub and Brad Guigar are leaving Blank Label Comics to form the new HalfPixel, previously a hub for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. Good luck guys! ComixTalk has an interview with Howard Tayler about this week’s changes to BLC and the future for the collective. Best [...]
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