Comix Talk

Brandon Boyer, the editor of Boing BOing’s new Offworld gaming blog writes that cartoonist James Kochalka will be posting to the site new monster Miis you can download to your Nintendo Wii.

Boyer also told me that this is part of an effort to write on the Offworld blog about artists, designers, and musicians outside the gaming industry and hopefully create a little cross-pollination.  So he may be receptive to YOUR brilliant comics-gaming-comics thingee (I’m looking for a "submit" button at the Offworld blog like Boing Boing has but can’t find it right now).

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This years winner of the Webcomic Idol contest is Simulated Comic Product.  Congratulations – go check it out, a very funny comic!

The runner up was Shi Long Pang, which I was very impressed with and I hope got a bump in readership from it’s second time in the contest.  Someone ought to sign this comic to a book deal ASAP.

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Cool – Tom Spurgeon added a list of reviews at ComicsxTALK to his library of comics reviews (a great resource btw).  To my surprise, he even posted them on his blog — part one and part two.  You can surf through all of the reviews right here too at this link. 

My primary comics reading these days is the Comics Reporter, Journalista!, FLEEN and Webcomics.com.  I have a lot of others in my RSS reader but those are the 4 I try to check daily.

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In the midst of a very good interview CWR has with Danielle Corsetto (creator of Girls With Slingshots) comes a bit about a once-hyped Internet-comics-thischangeseverything business:

Weren’t you part of ex-Marvel head honcho Bill Jemas’ 360 effort for a while? What happened with that?

To be honest, while I enjoyed the people I worked with there, I felt like 360ep was a hobby business. In other words, I was relying on them to do all of my merchandising, books, publicity, etc. for GWS, but they weren’t relying on my property for their own income, and that affected how hard they worked for me. The only merchandise they produced for me was a line of t-shirts which were available on a print-on-demand site… something I could have set up myself. After two years of little progress, I bought back my contract and started to create products on my own. It’s possible that 360ep is doing a great job with other properties; perhaps we just didn’t match up. Either way, it was a learning experience.

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I have often noodled over ideas (and code) to do a site like Is It Funny Today? (although I tended to think more broadly about "is it good recently") — so I’m pretty excited to see this site up and running.  There are more details on this site — how to find comics and how to vote on them — I will let you know more about what I think after trying it out.

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Why hasn’t digital comic downloads caught on like music, etc?  Maybe it’s the failure of industry to rally around a standard?  (Or adopt the de facto CBR standard out there).  Sean Kleefeld breaks down formats and explains the strengths and weakness of them.

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