Dresden Codak by Aaron Diaz, reviewed by Larry “El Santo” Cruz
Larry "El Santo" Cruz takes a look at Aaron Diaz’s too-surreal-for-you webcomic, Dresden Codak.
List of Almost Every Conceivable Web Content Business Model
Chris Anderson who edits Wired and wrote a book or something blogs about ways to monetize web content and between him and the commenters they list a lot of them. All of them are probably applicable to a webcomic so take a look. You might find something new to you that works. Continue Reading
How To Eat Fried Webcomics
COMIXTALK
- Big thanks to our current sponsors: Learn To Draw, Scriptorium Fonts and the webcomics Coffee Time and Across the Way.
INTERVIEWS
- CBR interviews Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett about their new book How To Make Webcomics.
- Broken Frontier has an interview with Tom Siddell, creator of Gunnerkrigg Court.
- Scienteers interview Alex Kolesar and Joseph Kovell of No Need for Bushido and earlier had an interview with Dave Roman, creator of Astronaut Elementary (among many other comics)
- And an interview with Dave Davis, founder of the Scienteers website.
EVENTS
- Like Brigadoon, every four years on February 29th, the University of South Dakota rises from the mists of the Scottish Highlands to hold its mystical 24 hour comics event!
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- The National Post has an article on Ryan North’s Dinosaur Comic Valentine’s Day cards. (My favorite: "Let’s Celebrate Using Cards!")
- Count Your Sheep creator Adis Ramos is getting married! Go buy some of his art as a wedding present.
- Colleen Doran writes about self-publishing (in the pre-web years) at Jeff Smith’s blog. Parts 1 and Parts 2 is up.
- FLEEN had a nice write-up of the new Jellaby book by Kean Soo. You can read the Jellaby comics online at the Secret Friend Society site.
There Once Was a Comic From Nantucket
Randall Munroe (xkcd creator) sets out to return the limerick to the limelight with LimerickDB.com.
Because five funny lines of vernacular verse is da’ bomb
And to update it
for 128 bit
every last line must include "nom, nom, nom"
New Website for Comics I Don’t Understand
Comics I Don’t Understand is a great community of comic fans who debate the meaning of comics with obscure to just plain incomprehensible "jokes".
It just relaunched with a new site at comicsidontunderstand.com so not a bad time to check it out if you’ve never visited before.
WCCA 2008 Nominees Are Out
The nominees for this year’s WCCAs were released this past Sunday (sadly without any fanfare, or press release… again). But lots of interesting choices (and good links to comics!):
OUTSTANDING COMIC FINALISTS:
Achewood by Chris Onstaad
Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio
Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell
Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicholas Gurewitch
The Phoenix Requiem by Sarah Ellerton
What a Good Place to Be: It’s Webcomic Hour Again!
AWARDS
- You can’t win an Eisner without submitting your comic for consideration. FLEEN makes the case that folks need to beg, boast and send their webcomics in for consideration.
- The NCS Reubens are also taking submissions but no digital or webcomic category yet.
INTERVIEWS
- NPR intereviews Greg Heffley, creator of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. I heard this on the weekend – interesting interview.
- The Scienteers ask ten questions of creator Dave Roman.
- Brigid asks five questions of creator Shaenon Garrity.
DEAD TREES
- Dumok has a new book out: Monster Lover: Wrath of the Harpy.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- David Malki!, creator of Wondermark, notes about a year of not working for the man. (h/t FLEEN).
- Richard Rosenbaum sings the praises of webcomics in an article titled "Paper is boring. Comics are awesome". (h/t Journalista!)
The Road Less Traveled: REJECTED!
So you’ve sent your materials to a publisher or agent, you’ve waited politely for the prescribed amount of time, and finally a letter from them shows up in your mailbox.
Chances are you’ve been rejected.
So now what?
So, you’ve sent your materials to a publisher or agent, you’ve waited politely for the prescribed amount of time, and finally a letter from them shows up in your mailbox.
Chances are you’ve been rejected.
You will feel many emotions, but I’m too heartless a bastard to discuss them now. Seriously, I could care less — this is a business not a birthday party. So when you’ve calmed down, there are two things you need to do:
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
This time, Dr. Haus lowers his expectations and tries to avoid taking too many cheap shots as he tries to review the action-packed comic Marilith without a smarmy narrative or outright mentioning the bosoms, melons, balloons, large persuasive tools, Holy Grail, Man-Disarmer breasts the artists saw fit to draw on most of the adult female cast members.
Will he succeed this time? Read it and find out.
Audio Interview with Phil and Kaja Foglio of Girl Genius
The audio interview of the Foglios from this past weekend is pretty good – they make interesting guests and the host wasn’t too bad. Check it out – you can find link to part 1 and part 2 on this page.
And if you’re not reading the steampunk, humor-hijink, mad scientist saga known as Girl Genius, well get thee to thy URL!
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