Webcomic-friendly conventions
Baltimore Comic Con is coming up in two weeks. The con hosts the Harvey Awards, which is featuring a webcomics category for the first time this year. Master of Ceremonies Kyle (Plastic Man) Baker is going to be awarding the first-ever webcomics Harvey Award to one of the following: Continue Reading
Things are starting to rev up for the big attendence spike on Saturday and I still haven't managed to walk the entire floor – a feat I plan to accomplish today.
Here is a photo gallery of things seen on Thursday:
I'm looking for a volunteer (or multiple someones) who is attending Comicon and would be willing to write a few posts that week (week of July 24th) for Comixpedia.
Webcomics have guest weeks – I guess this would be it's equivalent. If you're interested in being a Comixpedia guest blogger shoot me an email soon (xerexes AT comixpedia DOT com).
Two notable bits of book news this week:
John Allison reports that his fourth print collection of Scary Go Round is headed off to the printers. He'll also be crossing the pond for New York's MoCCA this June.
Howard Tayler reports that he's started working on the NEXT Schlock Mercenary collection. This one will collect episodes published online from August 2003 to March 2004. Fleen has a review of the current SM collection – "Under New Management" which I'm still waiting to get in my shiny maibox! 
Some convention appearances to note:
Blank Label dude Brad Guigar is at his hometown convention, Wizard World Cheesesteak Philapdelphia. I don't have the details here on the WizWorldCon but I hear it's in Philly!
Plus several reviews and blurbs for webcomics:
Joe Zabel writes about Derek Kirk Kim's new comic work online entitled Healing Hands. Joe's blog post on his review has already generated a lively discussion.
The Webcomicker has a review of Banished and in it argues that the web has been key to the success of a number of science fiction comedy titles. I don't know if I agree with the assertion, but regardless, Gilead links to many of the best sci-fi ha-ha webcomics I'm aware of.
T Campbell drops that he's bringing back Search Engine Funnies on September 1st. No word on the new artist(s) though.
Here's a business bit of news:
Gary Tyrrell has an interview with Chris Baldwin who recently signed a "web syndication" deal with United Media for his other comic Little Dee.
Some other interesting webcomic-related stories include:
The Penny Arcade duo taught a class on comics to grade schoolers. They've done this before and it's good to see them at it again. Gabe mused aloud about creating some resources for school teachers to download – he should do that. (He might also talk to Brad Guigar who did a similar project with comics in schools a few years ago.)
The blog Filth Hole (which is sometimes NSFW) got linked to by Warren Ellis for a funny sketch (which is probably NSFW).
The Writer Response Theory blog has a post on the history of fiction on the Internet which of course includes webcomics. A project along these lines would probably be able to use T Campbell's book as a jumping off point for a chapter on webcomics – I'm not sure what has been written about other fiction forms on the Internet. More interestingly would be to take a look at any interplay between different forms (and their associated communties of creators and readers) in their development on the internets.
Webcomics In Print blog is having a competition – send in a picture of yourself wearing a webcomic t-shirt before June 10th. Winners will win fabulous prizes no doubt!
We're also happy to report:
Bob Stevenson appears to have updated his blog/comic site Journey Into History. Bob does both webcomics and webcomic reviews well – he's kind of the ultimate anti-FLEEN.
Zoinks reports that it's latest issue is going to press and will be available later this month.
And in Not-Webcomics news:
Lore links to this video of "superhero war re-enactors" which is both a spoof of civil war re-enactors and a total geek-out on Marvel's Secret Wars comic books.
Combining our last two month issues (Superheroes and Movies) in one long post, Phil Kahn geeks out on X-Men 3: The Last Stand. Geeks out in a good way of course! 
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Ferrett has a report of the first day of Penguicon.
Indy Propaganda reviews Dr. McNinja, and The Webcomiker reviews Starslip Crisis.
Jamie Hernandez has a new comic starting today in the New York Times’ The Funny Pages part of its weekly magazine.
John Allison responds to Lore Sjoberg‘s article on webcomics’ reliance on t-shirt sales.
And in notwebcomics news now you can have a Comics Speech Balloon phone too!
Tym Godek has a review of the journal webcomic Surely Functional by Greg Kornbluh & Ramsey Ford.
T Campbell needs you to take the Clickwheel Users Survey. Clickwheel is the iPod comics service.
Paul Gadzikowski used to do a journal comic – who knew?
Jon Rosenberg notes that the horrible murder-cannibal guy that just got arrested . Nobody tell Jack Thompson, okay?
A little late but the Flight blog has some photos from the recent APE convention in SF, CA.
Computer Arts has a nice tutorial on using Adobe Illustrator CS2 to ink and color a traditional comic-style drawing. (They’ve actually got a lot of tutorials on the site.)
Just indulge me for a minute here: a new Jeremy t-shirt! I’ve always loved Jon Morris’ little Frankenstein-like character.
Chris Ware’s comic work for the New York Times magazine is over – check it all out here.
A few housecleaning, self-promotional details first: we added one more article to the March issue this week: Kelly Cooper’s column, The Webcomics Reader, which this month examines aspects of comics criticism, including noted critic R.C. Harvey. You can check out the entire March issue by clicking here.
I moved Comixpedia.net over to the new server last night. A few things got garbled in the move and it looks like it’s not entirely functional today. My apologies to the toplist members – I will be working on it tonight and I’m pretty confident I’ll have it fixed.
Also don’t forget that there are two conventions this weekend (at least that I’m aware of): Technicon and Fluke – if you’re exhibiting or hanging out at either feel free to post a comment to the note for each convention to let folks know you’ll be there.
And now the news! (click through to read more)
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a wonderful thing in theory, but it is amazing how hard it can be to use in practice. Case in point – IE, instead of overlapping the cover image a bit over the righthand column, pushes it all the way down the page leaving a ton of white space. Bad IE! Anyhow I’ve put in an ugly fix this morning that will work on IE if you have 1024×768 settings on your monitor or above (smaller setting still get the white space). Firefox seems to behave though. Hopefully I can resolve this over the weekend…
Also I put up here the first two articles from the March issue: an interview with Jeph Jacques and a new Welton Colbert webcomic.
Now onto the webcomic news!
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a wonderful thing in theory, but it is amazing how hard it can be to use in practice. Case in point – IE, instead of overlapping the cover image a bit over the righthand column, pushes it all the way down the page leaving a ton of white space. Bad IE! Anyhow I’ve put in an ugly fix this morning that will work on IE if you have 1024×768 settings on your monitor or above (smaller setting still get the white space). Firefox seems to behave though. Hopefully I can resolve this over the weekend…
Also I put up here the first two articles from the March issue: an interview with Jeph Jacques and a new Welton Colbert webcomic.
Now onto the webcomic news!
The Friends of Lulu have opened up nominations for their annual awards. Check out the categories and be sure to nominate worthy candidates from webcomics.
Dave Kellett will be talkin’ this upcomin’ Monday at the big-deal SXSW conference. If you’re in Austin go check it out.
Peter Hayward is listing his "cool dudes of webcomics". It’s a short list though. Either Hayward is a stingy bastard or comics are not as cool as Comixpedia thought…
If you didn’t make it to the first New York Comic-con all reports are that it was very well attended – so much so that the fire marshall was turning folks away at the door.
If you’re interested in more news and anecdotes about it, Tom Spurgeon has a round-up of write-ups and photos from the event at The Comics Reporter.
The Harveys are now at the Baltimore Comicon and this year’s MC will be Kyle Baker
Plus, there’s only 9 days left (March 3) to submit Harvey Award Nomination Ballots – there’s an online category this year so visit the site and download a ballot.
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