I have been tinkering with altertainment.net to be my personal “creative” site (a slight deviation from last year’s “about” annoucement) and in doing so – make Drupal webcomic-friendly. Luckily it’s almost there so I think with some pushing from me this could actually be a big year for Drupal + Webcomics.  I just posted the call-to-action below at the ghost-town-like webcomics group at http://groups.drupal.org:
Brian Warmoth (seriously is that a cool last name or what?) former staffer at Wizard and Devils Due Publishing is posting many of the webcomic stories he wrote for Wizard.com (and purged in the great Wizard f’up of ’07) now at his personal site warmoth.org. You can find all of them here.
Okay one more from MCÂ Frontalot – You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A Grue – the nostalgia theme song to anyone who played an Infocom game on their Apple II. Â Zork!
Sara Varon is becoming hopefully a bit more well known at this point having several published comic books released now. Although she has a nice website she has not really published anything in an online format. Given her interest in telling tales most interesting to young children I’m not sure whether the lack of a web presence is a bad idea or not.
Drupal really missed the boat in not more actively supporting webcomics a few years ago and now Wordpress with the help of the very effective Comicpress theme has taken a huge chunk of that market share. If you’re starting from scratch Wordpress + Comicpress is a great way to get going.
Wow – well Sister Claire is sure to become notorious this year (if it’s not already)…. a brightly colored, manga-influenced, mostly comedic tale of Sister Claire, a novice nun who becomes pregnant… it gets a might bit more biblical then that actually and probably will offend those of you with no sense of humor about religon, especially Christianity. Still I saw it linked to on Menage a 3 today and thought it worth recommending folks check out.
I just got caught up on Barry Smth’s Inktank and realized he’s written his autobiographical doppleganger in the strip into his old (early 00’s) comic Angst Technology. Is this brilliant? lazy? been done before? I really enjoyed the run and hope it’s an ongoing part of the new Inktank comic but than I was a fan of Angst Technology back in its day and am pretty glad to see its characters back in action.
RELATED: I interviewed Barry about his return to webcomicking back in August of last year.
When Portland webcomic artist Evan Nichols announced the posting of "500 episodes of ‘Ask Dr. Eldritch,’ all on schedule and without poop jokes," it immediately triggered a surprising firestorm of response. At the center of the controversy is Comic #60, which some claim contradicts this assertion. "The Eater of All says he’s going to pupate, and Trevor the Troll replies that he doesn’t do bathroom humor," said one Fan, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "If that’s not a poop joke, what is?"
Hope everyone is having a good 2009 so far. I’m looking for good new stuff to read online – if you want to share a recommendation with me, leave a comment on it below. Thanks!
And here’s some newsy stuff:
INTERVIEWS
Really good interview with Karl Kerschl, the creator of The Abominable Charles Christopher. (h/t Journalisa!)
ZUDA is putting some of its webcomic winners in print… finally! In an interview with the creators of The Black Cherry Bombshells, there is mention that Bayou and High Moon are coming first and that The Black Cherry Bombshells should follow in 2010.
FREE AS IN FREE
Sean Kleefeld (who I still think of as a print comics guy for whatever reason) has a post titled "Wait – You Still BUY Comics? How TwenCen!" pointing out all of the free comics you can get on the web (handy if you can’t afford to buy comics in print anymore).
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Instructables has a how-to for making "quick and easy webcomics".
The How To Get Your Food Spit In blog has a recurring photo-webcomic that’s pretty funny. Don’t criticize it though or it’ll spit in your browser…
I’m passing on an email from the create-comics-in-your-browser site Comicbrush about fixes and updates to the site:
I am writing with news about Comicbrush.
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