Posted by The Geek on Oct 31st, 2005
I managed to scared up some news for Halloween. It’s not actually scary news though, don’t be afraid. Jeph Jaques, the man behind the popular, indie music comic Questionable Content, was interviewed by Chris Dahlen of pitchforkmedia.com. In the interview, posted Friday, Jaques talks about the role T-shirts and other merchandise have played in his [...]
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Posted by daku on Oct 31st, 2005
Making enough money off webcomics to go it alone seems to be one of those elusive golden apples that very few people can reach. How to get people to come to your site and then throw money at you? There are 8000 webcomics out there and the playing field has quite a few heavy hitters, [...]
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Posted by DS on Oct 30th, 2005
Digital Strips : Show 44 [16.9 MB]
This week we talk about the epicenter of the web comic universe, Comixpedia. We interview the Co-Founder and Publisher of the popular e-zine Xaviar Xerexes, and the Editor in Chief Kelly J. Cooper. We discuss how Comixpedia got started, trends in web comics, the web comic wiki, changes that [...]
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Posted by daku on Oct 27th, 2005
Beginning on October 23th, various Eyeskream members participated in the first Eyeskream Webcomic Swap Day. Each Eyeskream member who participated created a guest comic for another member but the catch is no one knew who was drawing their comic! Now you can go over to Eyeskream and “guess” who drew which comic for which artist. [...]
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Posted by iank on Oct 27th, 2005
It’s BLC Guest Week over at PVP as the Blank Label Comics guys keep PVP updated while Scott Kurtz is at Blizzcon. The Talk About Comics server will be down for a few hours late Sunday evening for a hardware upgrade. Weekend browsers, you have been warned. Girl-a-Matic is celebrating their 2nd annual ‘Gam-o-Ween’ from [...]
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Posted by Zampzon on Oct 27th, 2005
This week’s comic is the same strip that can currently be found in the October issue of Zoinks Magazine. It was a Halloween theme, so I thought it was an appropriate time to post it here too. The printed version had to be in black and white, but I colored it for posting here.
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Posted by Zampzon on Oct 26th, 2005
Webcomic collectives, groups, whatever have been spawning quickly recently. We’ve spoken to several members about their various reasons for forming and goals they have set out for themselves. Today the official announcement that a new webcomic group was forming has been released to the public, The Ryans. It is a group made up of [...]
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Posted by The Geek on Oct 26th, 2005
Greg Dean of Real Life comics has made a change in his life, deciding to pursue a career in the culinary arts. According to an announcement on his site today, Dean is in the process getting things arranged to that he can attend classes at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. Dean has also [...]
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Posted by daku on Oct 25th, 2005
Yep, that ’s my icon. I’m actually making a post and I would have made one sooner but our new guys are just too damn good at their job. I’m actually going to have to start hunting for stuff outside my daily trawl. The past two weeks have been an avalanche of web comic drama [...]
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Posted by Zampzon on Oct 24th, 2005
The sometimes controversial, but always prolific, webcomic workhorse and cartoonist behind Yirmumah, DJ Coffman, has started a new site dedicated to helping other cartoonists find a business model for their comic creations. DJ has been able to work his own webcomic into a money making venture and now he’s offering ongoing advice for everyone to [...]
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