Milestones

Hey – 100 episodes of Templar, AZ!

Here’s hoping we get many more from talented creator Spike.

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FOR WORSE

• David Willis is getting damn good at mocking the funny pages. This one titled "My Mother is F—ng Insane".

MILESTONERS

• Corey Marie marks one year on her webcomic Scene Language. Congrats!
• Missed this – but Todd Allen had an interview with T Campbell – largely about his comics journalism at Broken Frontiers this year. I’ve enjoyed many of the pieces T wrote for the site but I have to admit I don’t like the obsessive focus on superhero comic books there – it often feels like 60-75% of the site is focused on that genre/format…

DEAD TREES

• T Campbell catches that Fred Gallagher’s Megatokyo is now out in an official Japanese-language edition. He’s also celebrating the arrival of his first child. Congrats!

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

• I really like this webcomic and you will too: Activities for Rainy Days.
• T Campbell spotlights some webcomics on hiatus that well… we all kind of wish weren’t but sometimes its just the way it goes. (Although Hate Song is back now)
• Now that’s an opinionated comic: Keyboard Kommandos!

HOLLYWOOOD!!!

• Comics2Film reports that Shannon Eric Denton, part of the webcomics site, Komikwerks is moving into television production with CBS putting World Of Quest – an animated show based on the webcomic of the same name – on its Fall schedule. Denton has also done a deal for a pilot based on a second Komikwerks webcomic title, Wyoming.

NOT WEBCOMICS

• Groovy! Evil Dead the Musical…

UNWARRANTED SNARKERY THOUGHTS

• Been thinking a bit more about this DC Zuda webcomics site and the more I think about it the more I go zzzzzz….� Sure it could be great, I am reserving judgment until there’s an actual launch later this year but the basic concept as announced?� It plays to none of DC’s supposed strengths.� This is a superhero publishing house right?� With tremendous character assets… with extremely long story archives that right now are hard to obtain a complete copy of on paper or digitally… legally, anyhow.� DC is probably losing a lot of money from pirated scans and is losing a lot more money from not coming up with and executing on a viable plan to digitally distribute the great character assets that it has.� The web is the best system for reading comics with long archives and intricate storylines because every new reader can dive into as much of the comic as they want.� There are some assertions that longer-form comics don’t work on the web but I think a lot of that has to do with schedule, serialization and consistency (longer works take a larger commitment from the creators) and while superhero stories aren’t everyone’s cup of joe,, they aren’t boring and a 22 page story isn’t too long for a single read at the computer.� I don’t know if DC should be doing a per-issue system or a Rhapsody subscription system but they should be doing something.� They are probably literally throwing money away right now because there is no way to get their comics through the web and then you throw in the seeming continued growth of pirated digital scans of their work.� Their paying-for-it-in-print audience is shrinking and they’re letting their potential digital audience get used to getting it for free. Zuda comics is completely irrelevant to the actual hard digitial distribution questions DC needs to deal with.

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100 episodes of Kawaii Not. A hilarious comic with such a simple, iconic art style and Murphy has a great twisted sense of humor (dark but happy!).

It occurred to me that a lot of Kawaii Not comics would make wonderful short animations (like 15 second ones). If ComixTALK had any real pull I’m sure Comedy Central or MTV would be looking into it – right now!

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Big thanks to our current sponsors: the Learn To Draw the Human Figure anatomy course, Frank Schnaa's Splace.net, the webcomic Pinky TA, and the FDA-not-approved product Promicin, and all of our Project Wonderful advertisers.

MILESTONES

Schlock Mercenary turns 7 years old today. Congratulations to Howard Tayler; world domination is just around the corner. (Howard's post at his blog here)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Warren Ellis is running a vote on three webcomics (must have RSS feed to be eligibile) to add to the Engine site.

Mr Myth on D.J. Coffman's Hero By Night:

With the Hero by Night Journals, DJ managed to capture that same sense of background and history, all neatly defined and delineated. Neither the journals nor the comic were able to grab me independantly – one was the shadow of an already finished tale, the story of a hero whose time had already ended, while the other was no different than countless other comics, with a kid finding a magic widget and blundering into superpowers. But together they formed something more than the sum of their parts – a story with a firm sense of past and present, which manages to keep the read all the more interested in the comic’s future.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

• Chapter 1 of The Vanguard is now available in print.
• Cartridge Comics is searching for its biggest fan (It's a contest).
• Draven: The Vampire Chronicle hits 100 pages!

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Webcomics in Print turned one this week. Not only that, we find out the top 5 book covers, review Afterstrife and find out about the new Kid's Book Project in our Monday's News
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David Tekiela who did the cover art for Comixpedia's September 2005 issue, hits episode 100 of his series Kristy Vs. The Zombie Army.

Holy Cliff Hangers Indeed… Will Kristy survive!!!?! 🙂

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Time to make the donuts thank our sponsors!

• TBS's Very Funny Ads (I'm not sure why they're advertising this with a pair of breasts – it seems to be a SFW site – it's a site featuring funny, mostly foreign ads)
• Comedy Central's Freak Show
• And the webcomics: The Eufos, The Front, A Pirate's Life For Me, I See You, Alma Mater, Things Change, and O''Deer.

And Now the News & Views:

• It's 24 Hour Comics Day! Post your updates, parties, etc!
• Arguably the most awesome first anniversary webcomic evah – check out this week's Dr. McNinja.
• I really like the concept of a "map" as the interface here. A Maps Little Spell is a very cool little site and webcomic worth checking out.
• On the internets you're free to be as NSFW as you wanna be… actually One-Liners isn't visually NSFW but man it can be vulgar. Definitely not for everyone, but if you like some shock and raw with your webcomics, check out the relatively new One-Liners by Shishio and -U.

Around the World in 80 Blogs:

• Journalista! catches a Wizard interview with cartoonist David Kellett about his comic Sheldon’s trip to Comics.com and back again.
• Zoinks congrats Tom Brazelton, creator of Theater Hoppers on his impending fatherhood.
• Lore recommends The Nietzsche Family Circus, which pairs a random Family Circus panel with a randomly selected Nietzsche quote, and this tribute to Ray Harryhause which he notes has skeletons with axes.

• Comic Foundry thinks the movie Ghost Rider will be as bad as Elecktra.

Things On My To Do List:

• I need to check up on the forthcoming Version 3.0 of 01Comics.
• I'm working on a joint review of poker-themed comics Life's A Bluff and +EV. Hopefully to be posted soon.

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Silent Kimbly on Monday reached it's #250th comic strip. After two years Silent Kimbly has reached colour, produced a collection of strips in the Play time book and has a future upcoming. Ryan Sias stated "I’ve got big plans for this next year, hopefully some of it will come true!"

Here's to the next #250!

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It really has been a hell of a year for the Blank Label Comics crew. Check out the highlights at their website.
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