Posted by daku on Mar 31st, 2005
It would be just like DJ to pull an April fools on everyone with the annoucement of Club Yirmumah. All kidding aside this idea may seem at first to be like any other subscription service but this is not some member’s only service like most. DJ is still posting his strip daily and keeping his [...]
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Posted by Zampzon on Mar 31st, 2005
It seems as if the hard drives that house the Modern Tales network of web comic collectives have failed. For the past two days comics on ModernTales.com, GirlAMatic, serializer.net, and Graphic Smash have been unavailable. Going to any of the sites reveals a message from Joey Manley explaining that they are working on the issues, [...]
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Posted by daku on Mar 31st, 2005
The trend continues in the print industry of censorship. Although I am personally not the biggest fan of Scott Bateman I do admire his tenacity and willingness to say anything. Bateman submits about ten of his strips to King Features Syndicate every month but has noticed over the past few months that fewer and fewer [...]
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Posted by Zampzon on Mar 31st, 2005
If you’ve been spending any time at all reading web comics you’ll come across similar features that web comic sites have and one of those features is sometimes a step by step walkthrough of how the artist creates their comic. I’m going to kick off a series a posts here about creating comics and, more [...]
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Posted by Zampzon on Mar 30th, 2005
If you’re a fan of comics then you, like me, are probably chomping at the bit to see the upcoming film Sin City. The film opens this Friday and you can bet your sweet pitootie I’ll be there. While the Sin City series of comics and graphic novels are not web comics there is a [...]
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Posted by daku on Mar 28th, 2005
There is nothing better then being surprised by a new strip. SBC pointed me to Israel?s first nanotechnology-powered superhero comic Golem, now being posted in English on YnetNews. Here is a strip with an art style that should take you back to the beginnings of the comic industry. It is simplistic with an almost minimalist [...]
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Posted by DS on Mar 27th, 2005
Digital Strips : Show 10 [11.8 MB]Our 10th show is online and available for download.
This week we feature the funny and irreverent Yirmumah (yirmumah.net) by D.J. Coffman and Bob McDeavitt. We first talk about the web comic and then play an interview we recorded with DJ earlier in the week. DJ is the artist behind [...]
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Posted by daku on Mar 27th, 2005
In Sore Thumbs we have yet another Manga with a theme around video games. How this one steals the spotlight is by not only focusing on games but by adding topographical and social humor. This seemingly fresh strip is written by Owen Gieni and Chris Crosby and focuses around the antics of the sister and [...]
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Posted by Zampzon on Mar 25th, 2005
A third contestant has dropped out of the Daily Grind’s Iron Man Challenge, a competition that challenges web comic artists to continuously update their comic strips at least once every 24 hours. The latest web comic creator to bail out is Bruce Gorr, the cartoonist behind A Day in the Life. It isn’t clear yet [...]
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Posted by Zampzon on Mar 24th, 2005
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis is the creator and artist behind Pearls Before Swine. The horizontal paneled humor strip is published in newspapers around the US by the United Media syndicate and features a talking rat and pig. The strip dated March 23 is of special note since it contains a pretty biting remark on the [...]
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