Open Book Toronto produced this great video from TCAF with lots of interview footage with Ryan North, Ramon Perez and Erika Moen talking about the diversity of the webcomic medium and the possibilities it opened up for independent artists. Extremely well done!
So is this comix or what? Whatever it is, it's captions on photos and it's (sometimes) lol… (wait did I just type lol? I meant FUNNY)
INTERVIEW: The Daily Cross Hatch talks to Jon Rosenberg on wrapping up Goats, and making a career out of webcomics.
MILESTONES: Shaenon Garrity celebrates the ten-year anniversary of her webcomic Narbonic with a commemorative print you can buy here.
DEAD TREES
KICK START MY ART
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Steve Conley is one of webcomics' godfathers and while he's not unrecognized, he doesn't get nearly enough credit. His groundbreaking comic Astounding Space Thrills existed both on and off the web and last year a collection of the offline comics was published. You can also still read the webcomic archives online.
Time to stuff the online ballot box at the Eagle Awards. A pretty good list of nominees for "Favourite Web-Based Comic" including Freak Angels, Order of the Stick, PVP, Sin Titulo and xkcd.
Does remix culture have anything to do with comix? Good question I guess but regardless I found this really interesting:
You can all go home now because Joe Hunter give you EVERY WEBCOMIC EVER. His Journalin Comix is pretty funny – worth checking out.
KICK START MY ART: Max Huffman does the webcomic called Mocktopus and he needs a new computer because his laptop died. Pledge some money, get a sketch – help Huffman keep making comics.
Hypin' the Hype: Evil Diva is about an average 12 year old girl who is also a devil. So being good and nice? Kind of a problem. This comic's been up for awhile (archives back to 2008) but escaped my notice before. Cute and funny comic.
Naughty By Nature: Filthy Figments launches in less then 2 weeks and boasts an impressive line-up of artists: GINA BIGGS, Creator of Red String, ROBIN EDWARDS, Creator of Cardboard Angel, JENNIE BREEDEN, Creator of The Devil's Panties, KITTYHAWK, Creator of Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, MEGAN GEDRIS, Creator of Yu+Me, and TSUKIYONO, Creator of Patches. WARNING – even the preview splash page up now is NSFW so click carefully. (Also of interest – it looks like the site is owned by Strawberry Comics, LLC, which is Gina Biggs corporate alter ego.)
Sex, RPG & Superheroes: Ryan Sohmer is launching a third webcomic, this one poking fun at superheroes. Longtime Sohmer collaborator, Lars DeSouza is serving as art director with the actual art to be done by a rotating crew of artists.
So I am trying to find time to work on two longer stories — one on the transition of comics to the Internet. Something with a larger perspective than a claustrophobic comics industry approach. Second on the kerfuffle last week about a webcomics iPad app. Lauren Davis wrote a legal analysis of RSS feeds and other aspects of the webcomics IPad that while not wrong, presented the issues as if they were settled. (Lauren's piece is worth reading – just read it as one possible answer to the issues.) They're not and it's actually something I know a lot about (and know enough experts to round it out) but it'll take time to do the research (legal analysis requires CITES, folks!). In the meantime…
I got back from Taiwan last week and managed to switch back to Eastern Time Zone okey-dokey for a couple of days but then WHAMMO… I got a case of delayed jet lag I guess? Anyhow, that's why I'm up at 4:30 in the AM.
REVIEWS: El Santo has reviewed all of the webcomic category nominees for this year's Eisners and offered up his predictions. And hey, El Santo also reviewed Marilith (the Hudson Hawk of webcomics?).
EVENT: Delos reports that Dialogue-Free Comics Day went off well – here's the entries.
INTERVIEW: Pink Raygun has a story about the webcomic Contropussy, including how it got its name.
ADVICE: Jeph Jacques, creator of Questionable Content, offers some straight-forward advice to those thinking of starting a webcomic.
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Hey still here! Back from adventures in the far east and looking at a mound of email and links about comics. I'm beginning to think this place would be better if it was more of a group project again. Hmmm…
INTERVIEWS: Brigid Alverson interviews Chris Watkins about his east-meets-west romance comic, Odori Park.
AROUND THE BLOGS
HYPIN' THE HYPE!
The nominees for the 2010 Joe Shuster Award in the categoy of "Webcomics/Bandes Dessinées Web" are:
The 6th Annual Awards Ceremony is on Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at the Innis Town Hall (University of Toronto) with returning Master of Ceremonies Jonathan Llyr. The awards ceremony is held on the same weekend as the Toronto ComiCON FAN APPRECIATION Event (June 5-6).
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