Girly
in the wake of Minx demise
Submitted by dave_roman on September 26, 2008 - 12:37
I've been thinking a lot about the blowback from DC cancelling its Minx line.
Webcomic Beacon #42 - The Crossover Wars
Submitted by fesworks on September 19, 2008 - 14:27
Fes and Aaron are talking about Crossovers and The 2007 Crossover Wars!
Webcomic Beacon #38 - Trans and Morph Webcomics w/ Special Guest Dan Shive
Submitted by fesworks on August 25, 2008 - 11:07
Dan Shive of El Goonish Shive joins Fes, Eric, and eventually Tanya as we discuss webcomics that have transgendering or morphologies.
This Day in ComixTalk (August 15th)
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on August 15, 2008 - 07:25
2007
Creator and entrepreneur Tim Demeter guest blogged at ComixTalk with a series called "It's Business Time" (links to part one, two and three)
The most popular pages at the Comixpedia encyclopedia are Girly, Penny Arcade, Cyanide and Happiness, Melonpool, and PowerPuff Girls Doujinshi.
2006
As Scott Kurtz debuted a new site design for PvP, I wrote asking whether webcomic websites be an artistic extension of the comic, essentially extending the look and feel of the comic, or is that not that important?
2005
Ryan Estrada reaches the 168 hour mark in the Ironbutt comic making event. In related endurance news, we reported on another entrant dropping out of the Daily Grind contest.
Ali Graham released a print collection of his first webcomic Housd.
2004
Alexander Danner wrote about how to promote your webcomic by not promoting your webcomic.
A group of creators banded together to form Found Hat Press.
2003
Warren Ellis reviewed the very first print collection of David Rees' clip art comic Get Your War On!
All Time Most Popular At WebcomicsNation.com
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 30, 2008 - 16:32
Webcomicsnation.com tracks the most popular comics hosted on its service:
- Templar, Arizona by Spike
- Narbonic By Shaenon K. Garrity
- The Non-Adventures of Wonderella by Justin Pierce
- Narbonic: Director's Cut By Shaenon K. Garrity
- The Bare Pit by Noodtoonist
- Carpe Diem by Graveyard Greg
- Bellen! by box brown
- Surviving Mars By Brian Daniel
- Paradigm Shift By Dirk I. Tiede
- Year One By M.Parkinson
- Venus in Points Alice Hunt
- Neil Lisst
- Supernatural Law by Batton Lash
- Maxwell the Demon by Tonia Walden
- Family Man by Dylan Meconis
- Elvenbaath Written and Illustrated by Dotty
- Nothing Better by tyler page
- Freak U. By A. Prosser
- Naoko Muragama: Video Game Champion By Shaun Henderson
- Breakfast of the Gods Book One: The Last Good Morning By Brendan Douglas Jones
- DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary By Erika Moen
- The Front By Jerzy Drozd
- REVVVelations Written and colored by Stan Yan, Illustrated by Jolyon Yates
- Smithson Written by Shaenon Garrity, Art by Robert Stevenson, Brian Moore, and Roger Langridge
- Pint of Ink Illustrated Amusements by Dee Hews
Webcomic Beacon #30 - Adult Webcomics with Josh Lesnick
Submitted by fesworks on June 26, 2008 - 20:14
Episode 30 - Adult Webcomics with Josh Lesnick: Since noone else will admit to it, why not dedicate a whole show to it? Josh Lesnick joins Fes, Tanya and Aaron as we discuss quality adult webcomics! Remember that most of the webcomics we talk about on this show are for people 18 years or older.
Mark Savary finds needs a drink after reviewing Lunar Antics, and we set our Beacon Searchlight on Toy Division! Plus the Strip Fight.org Weekly Ringside Update!
Milestones reported this week: Cooties turns 2 years! (We missed a few. We’ll get those next week!)
You Say You're Just a Webcomic
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on May 29, 2008 - 09:32
LEGAL
Lea Hernandez (and lots others) has been commenting on how bad the new contract from TokyoPop for their superstars of manga contest is. Does every freaking comics publisher now hold "contests"?
INTERVIEWS
The Scienteers intervew Josh "Girly" Lesnick.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Hey! New Boxjam's Doodle!
Hey! New update to Fear My Dear, the sequel to Dean Haspiel's Immortal.
Around the World in 4 Blogs and a Webcomic
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on May 14, 2008 - 10:04
The best of the rest I found today:
Chris "Awesome" Arrant interviews Rich "Rocket Man" Stevens (creator of Diesel Sweeties).
The "SCIENCE!" Scienteers interview Josh "JAM ON IT" Lesnick (creator of Girly).
Tom "Sputnik" Spurgeon reviews the all-ages Flight Explorer, edited by Kazu "King Kong" Kibuishi.
Susie C. links to 8 great comics by college students or college graduates (wait... that's really not narrowing it down, is it?)
And this is pretty funny - today's Fanboys features the cast of Seinfeld playing D&D.
SugarShock!, reviewed by Larry "El Santo" Cruz
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When ComixTalk head honcho Xaviar Xerexes (a.k.a "Tha Tru Triple X") mentioned that he wanted to see articles on the Eisner Award nominees, I slobbered at the chance to review one particular title, SugarShock! Why, you ask? It's because this little series is written by a somewhat popular guy by the name of Joss H. Whedon.
The Webcomic Beacon #18 - Guest Strips & Fan Art
Submitted by fesworks on April 5, 2008 - 15:31
Fes, Tanya, and Aaron are in the studio, talking about Guest Strips, Fan Art, and the etiquette that should be practiced around them. We are down all of the rest of our regular contributers this week, we hope to correct that soon! Some changes are slated for the near future, out of necessity.
Webcomic Milestones: American Gothic Daily has hit over 200 strips, Girly will be hitting 5 years online, and Girl-a-Matic has hit 5 years online! Congrats!
