Events

Despite its coordinator’s ham-fisted HTML skills, Comixpedia’s Fright Night Project moves forward like the beast that would not die!

Two (or more) new comic links are being posted daily, in a blood-soaked orgy of creativity starting from the crazed inspiration of our special guest starting panelists!

Whether you’re a participant or just looooove comics, be sure to come by and soak up that oogy ambience, then talk about it on our forum! Continue Reading →

Fright Night 2003 starts with a bang today, presenting the first of 25 scarifyin’ submissions to the first-ever official Comixpedia-sponsored event! Thrill to the worrisome work of Edward J. Grug III and Jesse Clark! And keep coming back daily for more submission URLs, right up to the apex of horror: HALLOWE’EN ITSELF, when we present our seven winners!

Go ahead and scare yourself now! Continue Reading →

Buzzcomics is a new website hosting forums and top 100 vote lists for webcomics. It is also launching an award for webcomics (limited, it appears to webcomics signed up with the site) to be nominated by committee (again, no details on how the committee will be selected or by whom) and than to be voted on by the creators of webcomics listed on the Buzz Top Vote list. It also will limit consideration to webcomics receiving less than 10,000 hits per day (they may have meant pages or visitors since hits generally counts all elements of webpage separately in the total) in an effort to focus the award on “smaller comics.”

There is no information provided yet on dates for the awards or any stage of the process. It is possible, however, to submit a webcomic for consideration by the nominating committee now. Continue Reading →

Every year at the Small Press Expo, they give out the Ignatz Awards. Unlike the Eisner Awards at SDCC, there’s a whole category dedicated to webcomics in the Ignatz Awards. This year’s nominations can be found at http://www.spxpo.com/ignatzwinner03.htm

The MT family got four out of five of the nominations in the online comics category (serializer got two out of five). Woo!

MT offers hearty congrats to all the nominees, whether they’re part of the MT family or not, though.

(note — you have to scroll down to the bottom to find the webcomics category, but there are artists who work in the webcomics medium scattered throughout the other categories, too — like Derek Kirk Kim, Scott Mills, Roger Langridge, and Jason Shiga). Continue Reading →

A message from the WCCA (Webcartoonists’ Choice Awards) chairman, Mark Mekkes:

First and foremost, I’d like to thank everyone in the webcomic community for being a part of the 2003 Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards. Some truly great comics were recognized and rewarded for their wonderful work this year. Every vote and every contribution helped make this year the best one yet.

But we’re far from being done, folks – we’re already on the way towards making next year even better. As always, the WCCA tends to generate a lot of discussion and debate in a variety of forums and lists, expressing thoughts and opinions on how it should be done, and what can be done to make it better. Some brilliant ideas are always bounced around, and with the right kind of commitment and energy, will raise our process to an even higher level of quality.

However, in order to follow through with those ideas we need active and creative people to be a part of the awards process. We need those voices in the forums to come sound off WITHIN our committee. We need to HEAR all your intelligent ideas and suggestions.

We need YOU to join the planning committee for the 2004 WCCA. Continue Reading →

Read the “Ceremonial” comic presentations here.

The winner of Best Comic is Nowhere Girl by Justine Shaw.

The winner of Best Newcomer is a tie between
Errant Story by Michael Poe, and
Anne Frank Conquers The Moon Nazis by Bill Mudron.
(Bill drew the cover for this month’s Comixpedia issue)

And the winner of Best Gaming Comic is
Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins. Continue Reading →

The WCCA Site announced today that due to technical issues the awards ceremony would be delayed for an unspecified period of time. Continue Reading →

Pushdot Studio, a gallery dedicated to archival-quality prints of digital art located in Portland, Oregon, is showing for the month of July “The Art of Storytelling: Comics in the Digital Age,” a collection of work by seven cartoonists who either publish on the web, or use a computer to create their work. Continue Reading →

There’s a whole bunch of webcomic related events taking place at the ICA in London as part of this years inaugural Comica festival. Things kick off with the opening of the Webcomica exhibition on Wednesday, with a talk from the show’s curator, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.

Webcomica will spotlight work from a range of well know webcomic creators in an attempt to provide an insight into the many possible futures for comics on the web. Details of the exhibition can be found on the ICA’s website, with more info on Merlin’s talk located here.
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