Day: May 12, 2003

Greg Dean, writer and artist of the widely-popular strip “Real Life” (http://www.reallifecomics.com) has left KeenSpot for another hosting service called “ColoGuys” which currently hosts Megatokyo, MacHall, and Little Gamers. More from Greg on the Real Life website:

I’ve been contemplating a move for a long while. I know what you’re probably thinking, and no… it’s not because of issues with KeenSpot. KeenSpot has been very good to me, and they are a wonderful organization. I wish them the best of success. However, for almost a year, I’ve had in mind some ideas for business ventures that will bring Real Life from what it is now, to the possibility of a full-time job for me. I just wanted to take the future of the comic into my own hands, and this is the first step.

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Ethan Persoff’s webcomic, A Dog and His Elephant won an SXSW Web Award in the “Weird/Extreme” category. ADAHE is published online by Serializer.

In the “Animation/Cartoon” category, Sixsidia was choosen.

The 2003 SXSW Website Competition positions itself on the frontier of innovation, uncovering the best new online creations in over 20 categories. SXSW, (South by Southwest), is a Austin, Texas Based company specializing in conference and festival events for entertainment and related media industry professionals. Since 1987, SXSW has produced the internationally recognized Music and Media Conference & Festival. Continue Reading →

On Pulse, Jen Contino interviews Jamie Robertson. Jamie creates the webcomic Clan of the Cats, a tale of witches and adventure. Continue Reading →

Cat Garza, our resident Java Chat guru sits down tonight with Neil Von Flue of Halcyon Years at 11:30 p.m. CST at the #comixpedia IRC channel.

You can access the channel through Nightstar IRC’s java aplet. Continue Reading →

Talkaboutcomics, the free forum site for small press and webcomics creators run by Joey Manley, is opening up its 24/7 Nightstar Network IRC chat channel to other cartoonists and creators who wish to host their own live events.

Manley said, “We’re hoping it will work sort of like a 24/7 webcomics convention, with press briefings, interviews, panel sessions, book club meetings — whatever people want to do.” The channel will have no sponsorship or membership requirements, according to Manley. “It’s just a service. Nightstar was kind enough to grant us use of their servers — we’re extending our invitation in the same spirit of community-building that Nightstar has shown to us.” Continue Reading →

We’ll try not to do this too much but seeing as we just started Comixpedia and webcomics have existed for sometime, we may on occasion point you to an old interview or review that we think is worth a look. Given the enormous growth in popularity of webcomics’ audience it’s also entirely possible that many readers aren’t aware of these “ancient news” items.

For starters, here’s an 1998 interview with Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance, the first (and probably still only) webtoonist to be interviewed by NPR (The interview is in Real Player format). Continue Reading →

Brad Guigar is back with the weekly webcomic quiz. This wednesday’s edition is all about the stories from this issue of Comixpedia. So read up and test your new webcomic trivia technique! Continue Reading →