Gamers Pair of Dice is a collective about gaming – videogames and other forms like role-playing games. It's the only collective (that I'm aware of) devoted to what is still probably webcomics' most popular genre of stories. In that sense it's very smart. It's also got a slick website and a good mix of webcomics on its roster. So that's even smarter.
Collective Comics features two current webcomics with announcements of more to come. The current comics include Rose City and Putt Hutt. Both seemed aimed squarely at the "guys being dudes, getting into trouble" genre.
Rose City is by Michael 'Big Sky' Schuyler and Pogues Malone – it started in 2006 and the art has improved considerably since it began. Story-wise it's episodic misadventures of twenty-something guys into comics and other guy stuff. Putt Hutt is by Danny O'Connell and it's art isn't that different from Rose City but it is in color (although unfortunately it does seem to go in for copy and paste quite a bit). It is, not surprisingly, about guys working at a miniature golf course.
In this month's Panels & Pictures, Derik A Badman looks at a few long form webcomic narratives and how their serialization affects the reading experience.
I missed this funny Lore column at WIRED:
…There are more than 11 billion websites in existence. Admittedly about 10 billion of those are link farms, but I'm fairly certain there's no way to fit the rest into my bookmarks no matter how many sub-menus I use.
It seems to me — for the purposes if this column — that the best way to reduce this clutter is to combine domains, creating a new site that incorporates the strengths of both the originals…
Deviant Arcade
Webcomics leviathan Penny Arcade may be a force to be reckoned with in gaming and online entertainment, but how long do they think they can hold on without kowtowing to the manga crowd? By combining with Deviant Art, the strip re-imagines Gabe and Tycho as a short-tempered Japanese schoolgirl in a miniskirt and a very sad, sexually ambiguous prince, respectively. The plot lines will stay the same as now, only in every panel the characters will either be staring soulfully at the reader or bathing.
For a change Webcomics in Print gives you three reasons to visit the site this week. First of all we review the awesome Stuff Sucks #3 and the mighty Afterstrife Chapter 2 whilst also giving you an added dash of Book News just for those interested out there. Continue Reading
The Daily Cartoonist is reporting on Randall Vanfossen's monthly publication "News Free Comics" which prints a number of comic strips. (I know I've seen a publication before that just ran comic strips but I can't remember it's name)
I'm not sure what the need is to pay for a paper that would deliver to me every month the newspaper strips I can already read in print or on the web the actual day they're published. The widespread availability of all newspaper strips on the web makes this approach even less valuable (I can imagine in days of yore getting this if it carried a strip I couldn't get in a local newspaper).
What would be interesting is if someone (oh like say a syndicate) put together an insert of comics that would be included in major newspapers around the country. I can imagine such an insert giving comics larger and better spacing on the page. But it's hard to believe no one's ever looked into this so I suspect the economics of doing it must be pretty lousy.
Your overnight outage report: a bit of a glitch on an upgrade effort. I'll have to try again tomorrow. Continue Reading
R Stevens made a video of him drawing Red Robot on a pre-pixelated t-shirt – nice idea for conventions but will he wash out?
Talented scribe o' comics Matt Shepherd looks at screenwriting software and finds it lacking for writing comics. Does anyone have any suggestions on if there is a program that takes care of Matt's needs? Continue Reading
A site note: as we'll be moving to the name ComixTalk next month, I've enabled the URL comixtalk.com which should now (or very soon) work (comixpedia.com will still continue to point to this site as well).
STOP THE PRESSES
GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
NOT WEBCOMICS
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