Not Webcomics

M.E. Russell of the blog CulturePulp has an interesting story today on where the new Batman Begins movie took its inspiration from in the ongoing Batman comic books. Continue Reading →

The Penny Arcade guys guest-taught an art class to third graders recently and both have posts up at their site about the experience. (Today’s PA comic is also on topic). Speaking as a parent, I can’t decide whether this is incredibly cool or a commentary on the sad lack of actual art education in the public schools.

In any event perhaps this will inspire another webcomics business model based upon tutoring young potential prodigies a la Rock School or better yet School of Rock… Continue Reading →

Neil Stephenson (author of Cryptinomicon and The Baroque Cycle) has an interesting essay on the difference between the first and second Star Wars trilogies and how the explosion of ancilliary media today have taken the “geek” out of the movies proper.

Link nabbed from ye olde BoING BoING! Continue Reading →

Extremely cool tool that lets you pick letters and then draw pictures with those letters. Called Typedrawing, it’s a flash driven web-widget from which you can save your creations. Continue Reading →

Okay, this funny article is actually entitled “Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from Video Games” but one on webcomics could be funny too. Continue Reading →

The Comics Reporter has a great page up on the Fantastic Four – intended as a resource for general reporters who need to write about the upcoming movie adaptation. Entitled “A Brief Guide to the Fantastic Four On-Line” it provides a brief summary of why the F4 is important in comics, the controversy over its creation and its status today plus links to about every interesting F4 site on the web. Continue Reading →

The Drawn! blog points out that Garnier is marketing Manga Head for all your gravity-defying hairstyle needs. Cosplay goes mainstream!?!

And please try to control the Sailor Moon cracks in the comments… Continue Reading →

David Simpson the creator of Ozy & Millie and I Drew This recently released his first album, Shiver. Self-described as “mostly acoustic, mostly simple, very homemade.”

I haven’t bought it, but I listened to the samples. Xerexes says “lo-fi, handmade goodness!” Continue Reading →

Pixel Group is constantly changing webpage as it reflects changes made by everyone visiting it. When you visit – clicking anywhere on it inverts the color of a pixel. Others are doing the same, at the same time. The result is a movie recorded 1 frame per minute.
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Onezumi and Harknell just got a few copies of World of Warcraft in over at the Onezumi.com HQ. They are giving away a free copy of WoW (which works on both PC and Mac) and a gift card that allows you to play online for free for 3 additional months. (4 months total.) Join them! The Webcomics will conquer WoW! Continue Reading →