Darth Vader’s Psychic Help Network
A little random but funny stuff for Star War fans. Check out Darth Vader’s Psychic Hotline a short film at Atom Films. Continue Reading
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WirePop announces the addition of Light’s Dream
WirePop — www.wirepop.com — announced today the new webcomic “Light’s Dream,” by Shannon Clarke, will be joining the webcomic line-up on WirePop.com, the growing Manga and Manga-styled webcomic subscription magazine.
“Shannon was one of the most ambitious and excited people that submitted a comic to WirePop and you can see that in the artwork and creativity for Light’s Dream†said George Panella, WirePops’ Publisher “Shannon has a great style when it comes to characters and backgrounds, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg when you get pulled into the story and world Shannon has created for Light’s Dream. We are really glad to have Shannon and Light’s Dream join WirePop. Be sure to check it out.†Continue Reading
MegaTokyo a Dark Horse in the running
Fred “Piro” Gallagher has announced that, as of volume 2, the print version of his mega-popular webomic, MegaTokyo, will be published by Dark Horse Comics. Continue Reading
Buy Season 1 of Trunktown Through BitPass
Tom Hart and Shaenon Garrity’s Trunktown recently finished it’s first chapter at serializer.net. Now non-subscribers can read this webcomic without subscribing with the use of the Bitpass micropayments system.
Folks, it’s a quarter. When’s the last time you could buy a comic book for 25 cents? 1974?
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Fancy Froglin’ Hits the Non-Digital World
Ninth Art has a review of the new Fancy Froglin’ book. James Kochalka’s online comic gem, first published by Modern Tales is now available in a book published by Alternative Comics entitled FANCY FROGLIN VOL 1: SEXY FOREST. Continue Reading
Copyright, the Statute of Anne and Rodents
Journalista! points out an interesting OC Weekly story on Dan O’Neill’s Air Pirates, the infamous parody of Disney’s cartoon characters that was squashed by copyright law.
Disney’s case hinged on the fact that O’Neill’s drawings closely resembled the real thing; that, of course, is an important aspect of parody. But Disney argued that such accurate representations might confuse America. It’s difficult to take seriously Disney’s argument that Air Pirates, an unknown, underground, small-circulation publication, could ever be confused with or compete economically with the real deal no matter how exact the rendering. Perhaps this is why Disney’s counsel peppered the complaint with references to Air Pirates as “perverted,” “offensive,” “degrading” and “defamatory” (they forgot “schismatical”), as if parody should somehow strive for wholesomeness. Continue Reading
Warren Ellis Reviews Get Your War On! Book
Warren Ellis drops his art bomb review of the new Get Your War On! book.
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Avalon by Josh Phillips, reviewed by Apis Teicher
In Arthurian legend, Avalon was the enchanted island were King Arthur was taken when mortally wounded after his last battle – a place to heal his wounds in the hands of faerie beings, and eventually return. Josh Phillips’s Avalon is a fitting tribute to the name. When describing Avalon, Phillips tells the reader: "This is the story of the students of Avalon High School. Continue Reading
Good Interview with Harvey Pekar of American Splendor
Eventually every comic will be made into a movie. Still American Splendor is one comic book I was initially surprised to see as the basis for a movie given Hollywood’s obsession with the long-underwear crowd. Moviepoopshoot has an interview with Mr. Pekar. Continue Reading
Should Webcomics Still Cater to 56k Dial-up Limits?
I’ve been thinking about whether webtoonists are still concerned about the limitations of 56k dial-up connections anymore. Broadband is much more widely available (if not used) than it was even just 2 years ago. Several webcomics, (including this one) routinely break the 100k per image barrier (back in the old skool day 50k images were pushing it). I’ve been on broadband since mid-1999 so dialup is a distant memory but isn’t 100k kind of sloooow on a dial-up connection?
Looks like Rocketbox has been discussing this too. Continue Reading
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