You may notice an abundance of subscription based comics opening up their archives. Looks like Shaenon started a trend which every other Modern Tales member has followed. Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge – Another contestant has dropped out. Philippe Gaboury of The Big Three-Oh has dropped out. Good news Philippe plans to keep the strip [...]
It looks like all the denials about not expanding any time soon was just a ploy. Blank Label Comics has just announced two new members in Dave Kellett, creator of Sheldon, and Greg Dean, creator of Real Life. Maybe this was the big thing Kris mentioned in our interview with him and David Willis. From [...]
Digital Strips : Show 23 [10.6mb] Today we feature part 2 of an interview with Scott Kurtz, the creator and artist behind PVP. Scott is one of the most well known professional cartoonists on the web. During the interview he discusses how he got started with web comics and why. He talks about fans, Image [...]
Digital Strips : Show 22 [12.4mb] This week we feature part 1 of an interview with Scott Kurtz, the creator and artist behind PVP. Scott is one of the most well known professional cartoonists on the web. During the interview he discusses how he got started with web comics and why. He talks about fans, [...]
At a recent appearance at Changing Hands Bookstore Todd McFarlane sat down with The Republic and answered a variety of questions. There are quite a few good ones such as “What are the major differences between a comic book and a graphic novel?” and “Why has there been a boom recently to the popularity of [...]
In looking for web comic news we tend to forget about the simple news of a great subscription based comic openning it’s archives or an excellent artist experimenting with new artforms. If you run a web comic or your favorite one has news email us and we’ll put up a post. Narbonnic – In celebration [...]
The one business model that is suppose to solve the money problem for web comics is micropayments. The idea is an artist offers their work in soft form at a fraction of the cost in hard form. For instance Jon Rosenberg offers two comics for $0.25 through BitPass when the paper form costs $4. This [...]
The Washington Post is running an article by Leslie Walker about web comics. The article was written to cover the recent attempt, and declared failure, of Goats.com to use micropayments, but the article goes on to cover the web comics community in general and discusses several artists who are making a living on their web [...]
The past few days have seen a little buzz about the a license proposal for the internet from Creative Commons. There’s an excellent round table discussion by T Campbell at Comixpedia with Lawrence Lessig, Neeru Paharia, Mia Garlick, JD Frazer of User Friendly and Cory Doctorow. Current licenses tend to be restirctive and cause problems [...]
On June 11th , 2005 Howard Taylor posted comic 1826. Posting that many comics itself is quite an accomplishment but the fact that it’s 1826 comics since June 12th, 2000 makes one of few feats accomplished by any comic. In case you’re still wondering why I’m posting it’s because there are 1826 days between the [...]
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