Comix Talk

I’m not a journalist, but I am sick so please wipe your hands after reading today’s post…

LEGAL

• Comics Worth Reading has some links to thoughts on digital piracy of comics. Also earlier this month, a bit on downloading manga and what that might mean for North America.

TECHNOLOGY

• There was a brief blip of attention this month for Adobe’s new E-reader thingee. Anyone believe the hype?

INTERVIEWS

• Finding Wonderland interviewed Kazu Kibuishi, Gene Yang and Svetlana Chmakova. Great stuff!
• Short piece on Steve Purcell, the creator of the Eisner-nominated Sam & Max webcomic.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

• Sequel to Rumble Girls: Silky Warrior Tansie is now starting up online: Runaway Lightning Ohmry. (h/t CWR)
• It’s probably not negative enough to catch on… but check out Useful Lies, a new Websnarky-like blog mostly (so far) about webcomics.
• The webcomic The Paranormals officially launches.
• I’m not sure if I linked to this review of Multiplex or not. Whatever, I like Multiplex more and more as time goes on for its ability to do movie jokes and build characters and storylines well.
• What is "noir-fu"? The Retriever knows!

HOW-TO

• Jason Berek-Lewis posts some tips on maing comics.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• The Phoenix has a story on Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, Nicholas Gurewitch of The Perry Bible Fellowship, Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl, and Joey Comeau of A Softer World.
• Think I saw this on Journalista! first – Hope Larson’s Kiss sketchbook from MoCCA. Clever idea…

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The Union of Concerned Scientists are have a contest to pick the best editorial comic – they’re calling it Science Idol. Go check out the finalists and vote for the best one.

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Owen Dunne (You Damn Kid and The Beevnicks) posted that he was taking the summer off to recharge. Here’s a snippet from his post:

The more time I spend on the Internet, the less creative I feel. Does that make sense?

Makes sense to me. While I enjoy the daily updates that many webcomics creators put out, there’s no need to self-enforce a never-ending schedule on yourself. A break, particularly for a comic with a fan base, in many cases is probably going to be a good thing, particularly if it does help the creator re-juice the batteries some.

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Chris Van Gompel of Hockey Zombie cranked out a few comics for a morning shock jock show called TnT.  The comics are already breaking FCC rules right and left… Continue Reading →

Transmission X features Toronto creators: Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl, Scott Hepburn, Brenden Fletcher, Arthur Dela Cruz and Ramon Perez. Everyone knows Perez from Butternut Squash and Steward and Dela Cruz have both been previously nominated for Eisners. Looks like a great group. (ht/ the Beat)

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It’s been about two years since RPG World last updated, so it’s not exactly surprising that by now I’d stopped checking it for new content. This made it all more pleasing recently when my Firefox bookmarks updater told me that the front page had changed!

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