Posted by The Geek on Mar 31st, 2007
Last week I had an experience that showed me first hand, why Web comics are fundamentally different than print comics. At least different from the kind you'll read in a newspaper. It wasn't really anything I didn't already know, but it came such a way that I can now more clearly explain the difference between [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Mar 30th, 2007
My teenage daughter is a voracious reader. We have literally hundreds of volumes of manga in the house, and we get more every week, but she reads books like some people eat potato chips, and she’s getting to the bottom of the bowl.
So we started looking at scanlations, bootleg translations of unlicensed manga. I have [...]
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We all know that survival is the name of the game in webcomics. If you get the traffic from month to month to keep you in everybody’s pull lists, you’re golden; if not, it becomes a question of whether you’re doing it because you love to or if you just want the notoriety that [...]
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Posted by The Geek on Mar 26th, 2007
If you haven't read it there was a really cool article about Web comics over on Time magazine's Web page. It's quite well written and very positive towards the medium. It even has some success stories and quote from popular creators of strips like PVP, Penny Arcade and Achewood.
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Posted by Brigid on Mar 24th, 2007
Comics are huge in Japan, but webcomics are not: People read manga on paper or on their cell phones, but so far, webcomics don’t seem to be a big part of the mix. That may be changing, however, as the publisher Gentosha recently announced that it would distribute its manga online in seven different languages. [...]
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There’s loads of little tidbits floating around in our precious Intertubes and I’ve just got to pick out some of them before the blockage stops all flow of traffic, incoming or outgoing. Come, converse with me…
Hasn’t Joe and Monkey been awesome lately? Sure, I wrote Zach Miller, the creator of the randomest of [...]
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Posted by The Geek on Mar 20th, 2007
I used to wonder why there were so many lesbians in the world of Web comics. Then they wise guru Daku explained it all. Now I understand.
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not going after Web comic lesbians in general and I’m certainly not going after any one strip. I’m just pointing out it’s [...]
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Lar was right! Having webcomic friends DOES pay off! With my various connections, I was able to track down former artist on The Pet Professional and current artist on the recently relaunched The Sophisticated Pig, Chad Diez for an interview! Amidst fairly regular updates on the Pet Pro site, the news came [...]
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*Spoilers Ahead! Spoilers Ahead! Enter At Your Own Risk!*
About a week ago, Mr. J. Carr and Mr. Mo-Effin’ Kahn passed the duty of blogging about PvP: The Series onto me. As with my previous review, I just don’t know where I fall yet, with so many pros and cons rushing to the surface [...]
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Posted by Phil Kahn on Mar 15th, 2007
Now available for download. Special thanks to everyone who came and contributed…
* Scott Kurtz – PVP
* Ross Nover – The Rockets! Rock Out!
* Midnight Cartooner – Amazing Super Zeroes
* Zach Weiner & Chason – Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
* Danielle LaBove – Rolling Damage
And all the listeners. Tune in next time!
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