Daily Cross Hatch looking for Webcomics Coverage
Comics blog The Daily Cross Hatch is looking for someone(s) to write about webcomics. Maybe it’s you? Continue Reading
Updates On Entries in the Ill-Fated Webcomic Directory Project?
I built a "library" of webcomics and creators back in the fall of 2005 which I put into beta before realizing it was too much editorial work to deal with and the same information could be better provided through the community edited webcomic wiki – COMIXPEDIA.
Nevertheless looking back on the assortment of names collected (some from me, some sent in from you) I wonder if anyone has any significant updates on these creators 18 months later. Maybe we should interview some of them?
Phil Kahn Interview With Randy Milholland of Something Positive
Phil Kahn interviewed Randy Milholland of Something Positive at Connecticon. Pretty interesting interview with some info on how Randy’s family has reacted to reading Something Positive.
True Loves
One of the comics on Serializer that I don’t skip over in my rss reader is True Loves by Jason Turner and Manien Bothma. They are on book 2 now and I completely missed book one (which is now in physical book form), but basically it’s a light-hearted relationship drama starring True, a young woman who owns a clothing store in Vancouver. The episodes are short vignettes in her life, featuring her boyfriend (they move in together during book 2) and various friends. Continue Reading
Pokemanz: Slackerz Vs Penny Arcade
Pokemon missed me so I have never had any idea what the fuss is all about. But I noticed two recent comics on older guys still playing (getting back into?) Pokemon only Penny Arcade seemed to approve of it (admittedly Gabe was a bit embarrassed about it in the newspost) but Slackerz just ripped into it.
Weird coincidence basically…
Flight of the Living Dead
I finally got a chance to read Flight of the Living Dead by Scott Ewen which is basically a "zombies on a plane" story. (Still waiting for the Sam Jackson character to make his entry…) It’s an entertaining enough concept and I’m going to stick with it further but I got to point out the major flaw in the visuals so far: which is that Ewen apparently doesn’t know what the inside of an airplane looks like. Airplanes are crowded and confined and it’s basically a big metal tube. Your backgrounds shouldn’t look like the plane has a big conference room stashed in it somewhere.
Mea Culpa – the creator is basing the plane on the Airbus A380 which has very non-plane like rooms that can be used for gyms, or bars, or private sleeping cabins…Â I’d still like to feel a better use of the plane setting in the visuals – I didn’t get any sense of claustrophia or confinement to a limited space which I would think is one of the key features of the setting – there are zombies and you can’t just jump out of the plane…
Vulcan & Vishnu
The seemingly very popular (at least with print comics people) webcomic collective Act-I-Vate has been hit or miss with me, but one comic that really stands out is Leland Purvis‘s "Vulcan & Vishnu". Continue Reading
Drawing Software: What do you use?
Since I know a lot of the readers here also make webcomics, I’ve got a question:
What software do you use in creating your webcomic?
Monday Monday, Derik’s Guest Blogging
Good Monday morning, everyone. Derik Badman here, this week’s guest blogger. My plan for the week is to post about a few webcomics I read–ones that might not get as much attention as they deserve–and whatever else I think of.
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Some of Som
Yes, I felt a bit of pride when it was announced earlier this year that the ALA’s best books for young adults for 2007 included Lat’s Kampung Boy. This American edition debuted last year, but the comic itself isn’t new by any means. Kampung Boy was first published in its original Malay in 1979, with its local English version following swiftly after. Regardless of the thirteen editions it’s undergone since, the comic retains a quaint timelessness, combining youthful wonder with a bit of nostalgia.
I was thinking about this in terms of another one of Lat’s comics, which invokes nostalgia on a different level. On my last trip home, I’d grabbed the family copy of Mat Som before it could get swallowed by my parents’ moving boxes (I have since smuggled it with me across the ocean, mwahaha). Continue Reading
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