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 Digital Strips : Show 124 [15.7 MB] |
We all know how much we’re dragging our feet here but real life has a problem of making this life impossible sometimes. To help out Steve and Jason have another review but this time it heralds back to the good old days of 3 comics. Each of these three are quite different and we even get some disagreement on taste.
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When it comes to webcomics most artists think that their skill alone should propel them into stardom. The fact that if they were so good from the start they would be paid for it in the first place doesn’t enter their minds. Everyone else, the ones who make money, understand that a webcomic is property. I’m not talking about your sister’s barbie dolls your mom caught you playing with, but something similar to what you find on TV and Radio. Sports entertainment understands this concept all to well. All of these long ago realized that every property has to represent.
Web comics are sexy. Podcasting is also sexy. Podcasting about Web comics is super sexy. Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub and Dave Kellett are now officially super sexy. Along with Brad Guiger (who was already super sexy) they have started a new podcast, Webcomics Weekly.
At this point in the evolution of downloadable content, I am excited. True, it’s a slippery slope towards making you pay for everything in a given experience, but the idea of buying what I want, when I want, revolving around the base product is very satisfying. Most webcomics that have chosen to take this route have done so with subscriptions, something that I will only consider for the very best of strips.
One of these days some guy named Jack is going to come along and wake us all up and we’re going to realize the sleeping giant that is Blind Ferret. Randy and Ryan seem to be everywhere now a days with some new plot to bring webcomics to the animated screen. The first big venture hit us with a big greasy side of bacon in the form of CAD Premium. The hubbub over that gave us a good month’s worth of news and I have yet to see it. (Did someone say free press pass? Oh, that was just my wet dream.) Piggy backing on that news Least I Could Do gave us a teaser for a LICD show along the same lines but alas it has yet to appear.
I’ve wanted to write about Wowio for a while now and a recent explosion of adds pimping the Web Comic Sore Thumbs collections (and considering the amount cleavage in said advertising, I think pimping is the perfect word for it) appearing of various site’s Project Wonderful banners has given me the excuse I’ve been looking for.
If you haven’t tired Wowio yet, go give it a try. I’ve been using it regularly for a few months now and have nothing but good things to say about it. I even the name, it’s fun to say. Try it. Wowio. I bet you’re smiling right now.
Sorry for the no-show last week. I was completely without any internets. They’re back, and so are the ConnectiCon videos.
This week we’ve got an interview with relative newcomers Chris “Blondie” Robbins and Kevin Roy of Caf-Fiends. Please Enjoy.
The Big Con has come and gone and that meant that the Comic Book Challenge moved into the next stages. Fifty people were invited to throw their pitch for a comic to three Judges; Actor/Comedian Donald Faison, Shrek Producer John H. Williams, and Platinum Studios head honcho Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. You can find all 50 pitches on the site but that’s a tall order even for me. The judges picked 10 semi-finalists and left it up to us to decided who the winner would be for 2007. A week ago that was narrowed down to three comics. Major complaint about the site before the reviews. We need more then one page to make a decision like this. I fill like we’re being made to decide off of art and personality without even knowing if these guys can tell a story.
Suppose Salvador Dali and M.C. Escher decided to do a manga.
The result might be something like the work of Shintaro Kago currently up at Same Hat! Same Hat!!
Your hosts, Ryan and Evan, specialize in offbeat manga, and most of what they post is either absurdist four-panel strips or the not-for-the-squeamish genre known as ero-guro (as in erotic-grotesque).
Everything on Same Hat is something you will never see anywhere else, but recently Ryan and Evan have found a few comics that are artier and at the same time more accessible than much of their other material. So if you haven’t stopped in already, now would be a good time to take a look.
In Japan, manga is more than just entertainment; there is an incredible range of educational manga, from business textbooks to Tsundere Linux, in which big-eyed little girls tenderly introduce the reader to … Linux.
So what Pfizer has done is quite logical: They have put a manga up on their site about a guy who uses one of their products. Viagra.
Nisemono?, which ComiPress translates as “Fake?” is only in Japanese, so it’s a little hard to follow. It seems to begin with the hero ostentatiously taking one of the little blue pills in his company’s boardroom, a scene that illustrates why I love manga so much: just taking a pill is a dramatic event, with fist-shaking and changing background colors and lots of sound effects. Even if you’re not sure what’s going on, it’s fun to watch. Then our hero goes off and talks to a pretty girl for a while and has coffee with his skeevy friend, who is obviously giving him bad relationship advice. Some things transcend language.