Time for the 4th Annual "Webcomic Holiday Postcard Fundraiser" – a charity event that sells packs of holiday postcards (featuring original art by webcomic artists) and all the proceeds go to Child’s Play. Some of the webcomic artists featured this year include Scott Ramsoomair, VGCats and Super Effective, Steve Napierski, Dueling Analogs, and Mohammad Haque, AppleGeeks.
Deadline is March 8, 2010. Similar rules as last year for the best digital comic category — open to any "new, professionally produced long-form original comics work posted online in 2009". The URL and any necessary access information should be emailed to the Eisners by clicking here.
Comic-Con International, the largest comic book and popular arts event in the United States, announced today that submissions are now being accepted for consideration by the judges for the 2010 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards. Publishers wanting to submit entries should send one copy each of the comics or books they wish to nominate and include a cover letter indicating what is being submitted and in what categories.
The tentative categories include best short story, best continuing comic book series (at least two issues must have been published in 2009), best limited comic book series (at least half of the series must have been published in 2009), best new series, best publication for kids, best publication for teens, best humor publication, best anthology, best digital comic, best graphic album–new material, best graphic album-reprint, best reality-based work, best archival collection, best U.S. edition of foreign material, best writer, best writer/artist, best penciler/inker (individual or team), best painter (interior art), best lettering, best coloring, best comics-related book, best comics journalism periodical or website, and best publication design. The judges may add, delete, or combine categories at their discretion. The cover letter should include both a mailing address and an e-mail address.
More details at the full press release.
I’m hoping to have a roundtable discussion of webcomics in 2009 up on the site later this month, but in the meantime I went back and looked at past ComixTalk roundtables (2007, 2006, 2005) to see how we all did with our predictions for the years to come. How’d we do?
Any comics publisher – small, large, corporate, independent, self-published – as well as online comic creators and cartoonists for newspapers and other periodicals, are invited to submit black-themed material released from January 1 – December 31, 2009 for consideration for award recognition. The Committee defines black-themed work as any comic with any combination of the following: a black protagonist(s), or at least a black character(s) pivotal to the direction of the story; a setting(s) or a theme(s) that explores the black experience within the United States and/or abroad, past, present, and/or future; and/or a comic of any kind written and/or illustrated by a black creator(s).
The panel of judges for the 2010 competition is:
- David Brothers, comics blogger, 4thLetter!
- Carol Burrell, editorial director, Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group
- Brian Cronin, writer, Comic Book Resources
- Katie Merritt, co-owner, Green Brain Comics; former president, Friends of Lulu
- Dan Merritt, co-owner, Green Brain Comics
Anyone wishing to submit their comic book or comic strip for consideration in the 2010 competition should e-mail GCA Committee Chair Rich Watson at rich.watson@gmail.com for further information. Hard copies are preferred, though submissions of e-files will also be accepted. Online comics creators and newspaper/periodical cartoonists with websites should send a direct URL link to their site or page. Daily cartoonists must have a minimum of one month’s work archived and available for viewing; weekly cartoonists a minimum of two months. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2010.
The 2010 Glyph Comics Awards ceremony will be held at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) in May 2010.
The new TCJ.com looks really interesting (temporary URL here) and it’s a great list of bloggers they’re going to host including two names familiar to webcomics: Eric Millikin and Shaenon Garrity. It also lists Gary Groth (owner of TCJ and Fantagraphics) who apparently will get over his previously expressed aversion to writing online.
INTERVIEW
CBR had an interview with Gary Phillips about his new webcomic Bicycle Cop. I checked out the comic, I’m hooked. So far an intriguing mystery with sharp art and cracking dialogue.
CRAFT
Onezumi has a video tutorial on how to get super-clean lines with the Photoshop pen tool.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
The publisher APE Entertainment has a new webcomic anthology centered around UFOs. You can read it online here.
Adam Bourret has a lot of interesting life to work with in his autobiographical comic I'm Crazy. Bourret won the Xeric Grant this year and he used the funds to put out a more polished version of the book. He's also serializing it online. Unlike many autobiographical comics I've recently read, Bourret has problems way beyond being a mopey, shy cartoonist as he suffers from various mental issues (primarily it seems to be OCD that afflicts him) that profoundly affect his life.
David LaMason is the creator of the relatively new webcomic Unbearable Bears and stepped in to do a piece of cover art for ComixTalk this month (Thanks Dave!). Bears is a good-natured humor comic set in the woods, mostly centered around a bird and a bear.
Well all’s quiet on the tryptophan front this morning… a big thanks to David LaMason, the creator of the webcomic Unbearable Bears, for creating on super-short notice our Thanksgiving cover art up top… if you’re ever trying to track me down, be sure to hit up the "where am I?" section at my other website xaviarxerexes.com… take a look at the comics event calendar for upcoming stuff to do — don’t forget you can subscribe to it; submit events to me (tweet to xerexes) or even volunteer to co-maintain it.
INTERVIEW
The Career Cookbook has an interview with Chris Hastings, the mastermind behind the webcomic Dr. McNinja.
MILESTONE
Happy Birthday Mr. Jonathan Rosenberg! Goats is one of the first webcomics I remember reading.
COLLECTIVE
Seth Kushner filmed a documentary on the ACT-I-VATE comics collective that you can watch at Newsarama.
LEGAL BEAGLE
I haven’t read the underlying case but TechDirt’s writeup of a lawsuit over a fictionalized portrayal of someone might be a red flag for comics creators. (This sounds different than the (in)famous Tony Twist lawsuit against Todd McFarlane. Twist’s win there was based on McFarlane profiting from using the "famous" Twist in the comic.)
Man, in years ComixTalk is like a tween now… OMG!
2008
We had an interview with Evan Nichols of the webcomic Dr. Eldritch. Plus, wow! Jon Morris’ comic, Star Wars Versus The Batman. And Bomb Shelter’s Webcomic Idol contest was down to the final three. (Doesn’t look like Webcomic Idol is happening this year…)
2007
Von Allan’s The Road To God Knows began its serialization over at Girlamatic.
2006
Scott McCloud’s Making Comics was making the rounds; Neil Babra drew an awesome turkey; and another installment in the Most Read Webcomics Measurement Project.
2005
Nada!!!
2004
A great thread on how much to spend on making a webcomic — how times have changed (or not) since then!
2003
Dave Wright’s Todd and Penguin hits it’s third anniversary milestone; an interview with Brad Hawkins and a review of his webcomic Monkey Law; and Dylan Meconis wrote a column on webcomic creator burnout.
Kean Soo has a cool retrospective post on what the creators involved with the first volume of the Flight comics anthology have done since it’s release and where they are now. Interestingly, only three still have regularly updated webcomics: Erika Moen, DAR!; Dylan Meconis, Family Man; and Derek Kirk Kim, TUNE.
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