Posted by Brigid on Jul 3rd, 2009
The Harvey Awards nominations are up, and as Xaviar Xerxes notes, webcomics did pretty well; if you include webcomics that have migrated to print, the list looks even better:
The Black Cherry Bombshells (Best On-Line Comics Work)
Buzzboy: Sidekicks Rule (multiple nominations)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (multiple nominations)
High Moon (Best New Series, Best On-Line Comics Work)
Least I [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Jul 1st, 2009
Over at Robot 6, I talk to Archie Comics editor Steve Oswald about their deal with iVerse to put Archie Comics on the iPhone. Oswald says they have plans to make quite a few comics available that way, and at least one will drop the print edition and go iPhone only.
Robot Comics is launching a [...]
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It’s been almost three weeks now since Gabe and Tycho decided to hold a contest, the winner of which would be their next, non-PA mini-series. The results brought about two winners; Lookouts, the tale of a band of young scouts and their fantastical adventures; and Automata, a noir-esque tale featuring a robot detective as the protagonist.
Now, the fate of those two victors stands revealed. As investigated and reported by Gary Tyrrell, Tycho discloses in today’s news post that Automata will be starting the week of San Diego Comic-Con while Lookouts will receive a… different treatment. About a week ago, TychoBrahe Tweeted this juicy tidbit:
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Posted by Brigid on Jun 28th, 2009
Joey Manley is doing an experiment that may be of interest to those of you who are planning to finance their webcomics by flogging merch: He’s testing the return on investment of three different ad schemes, Google AdSense, Project Wonderful, and Facebook. He explains it here and has a progress report here.
The Daily Cross Hatch [...]
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Posted by The Geek on Jun 25th, 2009
Have you ever wished you could go back in time so you could tell yourself not to put your keys down, thereby preventing the endless search that you are now enduring? I think thoughts like this are what led to comics like Chronillogical.
Chronillogical, by Jon Chouinard and Greg Poulos is the target of our critical [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Jun 25th, 2009
Ethan Young is putting his previously self-published comic, Tails, on the web. It’s a semi-autobiographical story of a young cartoonist who lives with his parents, and a large number of cats seem to be involved. Enjoy! (Via Comics Worth Reading.)
Andy Belanger’s new Zuda comic, Bottle of Awesome, only has two screens up right now, so [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Jun 23rd, 2009
Must read: Rantz Hoseley talks to CBR about Longbox Digital Comics, an enterprise that will allow readers to download digital comics for 99 cents each. I know this has been tried before, but Hoseley seems to have spent a lot of time thinking about this and it’s interesting to read what he has to say. [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Jun 19th, 2009
I took some iPod comics out for a test drive at Robot 6 this week, looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the format and some of the ways people are adapting to it.
Speaking of which, Transformers comics were the top app of the day in Apple’s iTunes store yesterday, and Heidi MacDonald takes a [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Jun 18th, 2009
We haven’t been fans of MySpace as a webcomics site, but they did bring the comics to where the kids were. Except the kids have moved on, to Facebook and Twitter and probably some other thing we haven’t even heard of yet, so MySpace Comics is closing up shop.
In this week’s Publishers Weekly Comics [...]
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Posted by The Geek on Jun 17th, 2009
This show is not for the faint of heart, we say all kinds of words and phrases that my mother would not approve of. Of course my mother got on my case when I said “fart-knocker” so ample use of terms like “boobies” and “dick” along with phrases like “the c-word” (just the phrase the [...]
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