Webcomics Anonymous is getting close to publication. Yes, a new webcomic magazine is coming, but we want to know what your favourite webcomic is! You can either join the facebook group, email moovok(a)yahoo.com or discuss on this thread, either way your views may be heard. There are other topics on there to check out which will appear in future issues. Continue Reading
As I mentioned earlier, I’m writing this week during down time from the annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. It’s only been very recently, say within the last 2 years or so, that the AAEC has started to extend its reach to alternative cartoonists, not just ingrained single panel staffers. One of the main reasons? Continue Reading
Xavier was generous enough to let me guest-blog here for the week. That said, I demanded that if I did it I got to shamelessly promote my own event on the front page. So here we go.
A happy 4th to all you American readers out there. For you not-American readers, give us all your natural resources. Now.
Thanks to Xavier for offering me the guest blogging spot. Ironically, Xavier caught me during a week where I’ll mostly be celebrating the field of print cartooning- the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists is holding its annual convention here in the lovely swampland of D.C. this year. Continue Reading
Welcome to our first guest blogger, August J. Pollak, cartoonist and blogger. I’ve been reading August’s cartoons online for longer than I’ve been writing about webcomics here. And I’ve been reading his blog regularly for awhile now too. He’s opinionated and funny and I really think he’s carving an interesting path for himself with cartoons and commentary online.
I wrote a review of August’s online series a couple of years ago and here’s a quote from it that August must have liked (because it’s on his website): "Pollak has a cartoony style, but is no less harsh in his approach to politics and news… If anything, the simple, slightly goofy art style lulls you a bit before you read the punchline." More recently, Ted Rall profiled August in Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists.
The Kid’s Book Project is currently giving away to the first 100 pre-orders an A4 signed sheet of paper (printed obviously since all the artists are all over the world) from all the artists. Quickly get yours whilst you can! Continue Reading
I’ve got the line-up for the summer’s guest bloggers set (unless it changes!) so without further ado here’s some of the folks that I’ll be turning the site over this summer: July 2nd: August J Pollak (Some Guy With a… Continue Reading
An interesting article in the NY Times talking about a new book by Andrsew Keen called The Cult of the Amateur. It sounds like the book covers a lot of territory but one point of interest to webcomics was the notion that free content is killing content:
"What you may not realize is that what is free is actually costing us a fortune,†Mr. Keen writes. “The new winners — Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, and the hundreds of start-ups hungry for a piece of the Web 2.0 pie — are unlikely to fill the shoes of the industries they are helping to undermine, in terms of products produced, jobs created, revenue generated or benefits conferred. By stealing away our eyeballs, the blogs and wikis are decimating the publishing, music and news-gathering industries that created the original content those Web sites ‘aggregate.’ Our culture is essentially cannibalizing its young, destroying the very sources of the content they crave."
Joel Fagin follows up his previous article on the selling of webcomics Reinventing Micropayments with another look at how creators could sell digital comics. This time, he further explores the notion of selling comic downloads and examines the initial results of Starline X Hodge’s sales of her comic Candi.
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