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Great xkcd article on Wired

Submitted by Ninja-bot on November 15, 2007 - 17:17

Here's a link to the article spoken of in the title. 70 million page views! When you're done contributing to xkcd's pageview count, throw a little love to Shuriken Diaries while you're at it.

Make Mine Six Month Old Marvel!

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 13, 2007 - 11:31

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  • Dirk Deppey links to Marvel Comics new webcomic effort -- Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited as well as a USA Today story on the new site. The bottom line -- the site will feature 2,500 comics (nothing more recent than 6 months old though) for $9.99 a month, or $4.99 a month if you’re willing to commit for a year. Aren't these guys about 4 years late to the subscription model? Still it'll be interesting to see how it does and who becomes its audience (existing fans or newcomers to Marvel stories).

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The Webcomic of Our Discontent...

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 12, 2007 - 12:30

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Comics For Chocolate: An interview with Debbie Ridpath Ohi

November 4, 2007 - 22:43 | Xaviar Xerexes

I don't quite remember how I first discovered Debbie Ridpath Ohi's webcomic Will Write For Chocolate but as a procrastinating writer of several novels-to-be, I instantly "got" this funny comic about writers and their lives. And then I learned that Ridpath Ohi not only creates comics but writes all the time.

Ridpath Ohi is a freelance writer and illustrator living in Toronto with her husband, Jeff. In addition to creating several webcomics, she blogs online at Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers and has written a nonfiction book (The Writer's Online Marketplace, published by Writer's Digest Books), magazine articles (print and online), poetry, and short stories. She's also a part of the band Urban Tapestry. As you'll see from the interview, she is prodigiously productive!

2007 Weblog Award Nominees Announced

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 1, 2007 - 16:30

I don't know much about the Weblog awards for blogs, but this [edit:] is the second year they've included a "comic strip" category. The nominees are:

And here's a link to the full list of award nominees if you're interested.

UPDATE: I've gone ahead and fixed the list of nominees here to add the creators' names and webcomic URLs. I have no idea about "Attack" though - please post a comment here if you know which comic the nomination is for. As noted in the comments below it appears that the "final nominees" are selected subjectively by someone(s) at the Weblog Awards (from a list of nominations by the public). Last year's winner - Least I Could Do plus Day by Day and Sluggy Freelance are all repeat nominees (they were on the 2006 list of final nominees).  [I guess it's also somewhat interesting that both years two conservatively-slanted opinion comics have been included in the nomination list, but no progressively-slanted comics have been picked for inclusion.]

Monday Update

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 21, 2007 - 21:51

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  • I thought David McGuire's Webcomics Are Awesome is pretty funny as a parody of webcomics community (not sure if he's going to update it further) on the level of "lots of this absurd stuff happens and it's always healthy to make fun of yourself" since McGuire is a comic creator himself and as part of the now defunct Bag of Chips collective has certainly been "in" the webcomics community as much as anyone. On the otherhand I don't really know David (met him once at SPX) so I'm not sure how he views this comic.
  • Everyone's making comics about the latest videogame Portal. This one's from Hijinks Ensue (whose creator Joel Watson also makes comics that appear on the website Apple Insider)
  • Tough Guys is a pretty good concept for a comic (or probably more likely an Adult Swim animated series) but the execution of this webcomic by Zac Marshall and Nuno Teixeira is all wrong. The art is strange and largely looks cut and pasted. Maybe a chibi style would have worked better here. It's also largely not funny nor interesting yet. You're aiming at a huge chunk of American pop culture over the last 30 to 40 years (the "action movie") -- that's a big fat softball across the plate, if you're doing jokes you ought to be hitting multiple base hits everytime out.
  • The Tower by Saki Miyamoto and Brendon Bennets is a textless comic about a princess who escapes her intended role in search of adventure.
  • David Wright (creator of Todd and Penguin) has a new webcomic out called The Best Kids Show Ever - sort of if Fox News decided to get into the children's television business.
  • Butternut Squash versus Mahna mahna. (Original muppet song here!)

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Webcomic Wire - 9/24/07

Submitted by NightgigTim on September 24, 2007 - 20:18

Drawn from sources close to the Pope…

Cory Doctrow cosplayers at the XKCD picnic.
Clickwheel will continue to be commissioning work from independent creators. If you have a comic and want to pitch it to them, email Tim (tim@clickwheel.net) 
Wizard has a conversation with Karl Kerschl of Transmission X.
T Campbell blogs about the Heroes webcomic.
Wall Street Journal article [...]
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What Are Your 5 Funniest Webcomics?

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on September 19, 2007 - 10:08

Sid picks his 5 funniest webcomics (link just slightly b/c of cartoon nudity NSFW): Xkcd; Basic Instructions; Wulffmorgenthaler; Ctrl+Alt+Del; and JOHN AND JOHN.

I've read all of those except for John and John and while I've laughed at all of them I'm not sure any of them would make my list for the 5 funniest webcomics. For me those would be the comics that flat out make me laugh the most and the most consistently. What 5 comics would you pick?

End of the Summer Edition of What's On My Monitor

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on September 3, 2007 - 08:36

I had a good summer - hope you all did too. I tend to leave open a lot of windows in Firefox thinking I'll get to writing a snappy comment about them and often never do. Let's see what I can come up with while I close out my summer readings....

THE LOWDOWN ON DOWNLOADS 

  • WOWIO is a site that offers a lot of comics (and ebooks too) for download, some of them free.  There's a good post by T Campbell here on his experience working with the site to offer his comics and over here is some skepticism from FLEEN.  Campbell reveals that he gets 50 cents per unique download of his comic.  I signed up myself earlier this year with a "non-anonymous" email (I think I used a comixpedia.com one) and don't remember being bothered by the information requested.  If the information requested did bother me well here's a tip.  For a lot of sites I use a set of information I've created to give to sites I think anonyingly ask for too much information.  That way they know nothing about me and yet I can remember the "information" if I need it later for some reason (like recovering a password).  I don't think of it as all that different than giving physical stores made up zip codes when they ask for one (which I do all the time too).  (There's some regional group of newspapers websites - including this one - that asks everytime you read a story for your birthdate, gender and zip code.  That is damn annoying!)

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Top Webcomic Pages At the Comixpedia Encyclopedia

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on August 15, 2007 - 12:57

Most "popular" pages about webcomics visited at Comixpedia:Â