Comix Talk

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INTERVIEWS

• Mr Media interviews Stephan Pastis, the creator of Pearls Before Swine.

REVIEWS

• The Webcomic Overlook reviews Beachnuts, a webcomic about surfing and… smells.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Occasional Superheroine has some good advice to creators on marketing yourself.
• Elf Life Alfheim is back.
• I missed this but Lynne Johnston appears to be giving up on the hybrid (some new; some repears) approach to For Better or For Worse and is now talking about ending it or opening up the possibility of letting another creator take a crack at continuing it.

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The comic book news website Broken Frontier is giving out awards (basically the picks of the website staff) and it’s nominees for webcomic categories are:

Best Webcomic Creator:

• Frank Frisina writer on Life’s a Bluff
• Ramon Perez artist on Butternut Squash
• Scott Christian Sava for Dreamland Chronicles
• Ursula Vernon for Digger

Best Webcomic:

• Dreamland Chronicles
• Last Blood
• Penny Arcade
• Perry Bible Fellowship

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Your favorite animated videogamin’ webcomics are making plans for another season of cartoons:

Scott Kurtz of PVP says:

Is there going to be a season 2: Both Ryan [Sohmer] and myself want to make a season two, but it’s not going to start right away. We’re going to see how the DVD sells before deciding how to move forward. We want to give the PvP readership what it wants, and if that’s more DVDs instead of online subscriptions, that’s how we’ll move forward. I also need a break from the production schedule to make time for the extra traveling I’ll be doing this year to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the strip and promote the How to Make Webcomics book.

When is the DVD coming?: As soon as Episode 12 is complete, we’re starting production on the DVD. All of our voicecast became huge fans and supporters of the strip over the last year and they really want to help make the DVD special. So we’re going to be recording commentary tracks and filming some behind the scenes stuff to include. I’m hoping to be in LA next month doing just that. My personal goal is to have DVDs in time for Emerald City Con.

Ryan Sohmer of Blind Ferret Entertainment says:

Blind Ferret Entertainment is proud to announce the development and distribution of a 2nd Season of Ctrl+Alt+Del: The Animated Series. Financed entirely by Blind Ferret Entertainment, the new season is scheduled to begin airing in March 2008.

More from the Blind Ferret press release after the jump:

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I discovered Aether late and also just caught up on it to discover that creator Naomi has called it quits. It isn’t brilliant, but it it’s a fun, pop-accessible Harry Potter-ish story of magic and adventure. I understand the feelings that Naomi describes and certainly if you can’t find a spark within yourself for a project you probably aren’t going to be creating the best work possible.

The decision to finish (or not) a project is nothing new, but with the advent of serialization on the web being the norm these days, it sure is a much more public process.

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TRANSMISSION X IN EFFECT

• Jesus! Sin Titulo is killing me with the suspense. This is one intense webcomic.
• Luz: Girl of The Knowing is such a well done comic it almost gets me past the fact that it is largely a public service message.
• Ramon Perez's Kukuburi was one of the best comics of 2007 and I'm really looking forward to where it goes this year.
• The Abominable Charles Christopher is hard to describe sometimes. Charming most of the time, it's a glimpse into the animals of the forest and the sweet yet apparently not to bright yeti that lives among them.
• Kissing Chaos is graphically inventive but a little bit underdeveloped on the narrative front at this point.
• I can't tell where Raising Hell is going – a romantic comedy set in a horror movie or a bit of a send-up of horror movies – either way it's another fun read with good pace, two solid main characters and nice artwork so far.
• The Port is sort of interesting, but exploding demon cats are kind of silly really…

AWARDS

• Only about a week left for working webcomic creators to get in their nominations for this year's WCCAs.
• Even less time to get in nominations for this year's Glyphs.

Milestones

• Missed it but earlier this month Bryant Paul Johnson celebrated 8 years of his fantastic comic Teaching Baby Paranoia.
• I think Nukees is hitting its 11th anniversary later this month… wow!

Justify My Hype

• I dunno – the sound of an empty milkshake is pretty dang sad…

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January Issue (so far…):

• Xaviar Xerexes interviews the International Man Of Webcomics: Ryan Estrada
• Michael Payne goes in Search of Vanished Webcomics
• Tim Broderick continues his series on bringing his webcomic to print with a traditional publisher: What’s the Next Step?
• Patric Lewandowski considers the Intent of the Creator in his series on defining comics.
• Derik Badman’s latest installment of his column Panels & Pictures offers a close reading of Krigstein

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HEADLINES

• Todd Allen tackles the quality of Zuda’s advertising and Platinum’s AT&T sponsorship of the Comic Book Challenge among other subjects in his most recent column at CBR.
• Lee Atchison takes a turn at being a "renowned webcomics historian" with A Brief History of Webcomics: part one and part two.

INTERVIEWS

• Jiffy Burke interviews James Turner, creator of Beaver and Steve.
• Leesa Hanagan interviews Woody Hearn of GU Comics.
• Joamette Gil interviews Tracy Butler, creator of Lackadaisy.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Pam Bliss has a computer but doesn’t read webcomics. And she worries that the giant magnet overlords may erase all of the webcomics from the intertubes. Gleep!

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