Is This A Comic? Closure and Synthesis (Part 1)

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So far on our quest to define comics, I have set out my four criteria that I believe best determines whether a given work is a comic or not.  The Four Criteria are: The Intent of the Creator,  Audience Experience, Closure and Synthesis, and The Use of Visual Language.  In previous months, we’ve delved further into The Intent of the Creator and Audience Experience.  This brings us to our third criteria, Closure and Synthesis.  

What is Closure and Synthesis?  Why does this criteria include two distinct concepts?  And just how are these two things related?

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Drawn! Highlights

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TUTORIALS

Drawn has links to Jim Zubkavich’s multi-part digital painting tutorial.  Really excellant stuff.

COLLABORATION, HO!

Drawn has the scoop on the forum-driven comic Awesome Justice Storm:

An off the cuff comment by a community member about the creation of a team, snowballed into a full fledged project. Community members submitted entries for the team, and then voted on membership for Awesome Storm Justice. The top eight vote-getters secured a space on the team.

Manga, Manga, Maaanga!!!

Drawn links to Pablo Hidalgo’s comparison of the original Star Wars comic books versus the more recent manga versions.

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Give me a Webcomic, ginger ale on the side. And don’t be stingy, baby…

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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.

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Nominations for Eisner Awards Due This Friday

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Now that the WCCAs are done, it’s time to make sure nominations for the Eisners are in on time.  The deadline for submissions is this Friday, March 14, 2008.

The Eisner category of best webcomic is "open to any new, professionally produced long-form original comics work posted online in 2007. Webcomics must have a unique domain name or be part of a larger comics community to be considered. The work must be online-exclusive for a significant period prior to being collected in print form."  Send the URL and any necessary access information to jackiee@mindspring.com.

And although webcomics have not yet received much consideration in other categories, they won’t get considered if they’re not nominated.  Click here for more information on the other tentative categories and how to submit work to the panel of judges.

ALSO – the deadline for nominations for the Eagle Awards is also coming up – March 22nd. Click here to nominate a comic.

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Tipjoy – Making Donations Easier?

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I don’t know what to think of this site, Tipjoy yet.  From what I can tell Tipjoy apparently works as an "aggregator" of donations.  If I understand it right websites can put up a "tipjar" and people can "tip" a dime just by leaving their email.  No one has to actually pony up anything until the five dollar threshold is met.  (Web Workers Daily is skeptical too)

Anyone using this?  What do you think?

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