daku

Webcomic Idol 2007

Posted by daku on Sep 29th, 2007

The time has come for another run at perhaps the best contest in webcomics.
Bomb Shelter Comics has started their annual Webcomic Idol, with the start of submissions having been Tuesday September 25th. Submit your comic and fill out the form. Deadline for submissions is October 14th at 11:59pm PST. This year’s competition sees the return [...]

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daku

Investing In Webcomics

Posted by daku on Sep 29th, 2007

Everyone is sitting around looking at that empty shelf space or that open table space. Here’s the answer you have been looking for.
Kid’s Book Project – You’ve been hearing about this from us for awhile now and you’ll continue until this charity is successful. The project is a children’s book containing artwork from over [...]

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Brigid

Literary webcomics

Posted by Brigid on Sep 26th, 2007

In the course of helping my daughter with a high school English assignment (”Find a poem that expresses your personality”), I found something really cool: The Poetry Foundation is inviting artists to create comics to illustrate poems. There are five entries so far in their series, “The Poem as Comic Strip,” and each one takes [...]

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Phil Kahn

Clickwheelin’

Posted by Phil Kahn on Sep 26th, 2007

Hey gang. I know I rarely post news, but I have personal vested interest in this one, since I’m on the staff. Call it shameless self-promotion, call it what you will.
But the Clickwheel has relaunched.
Brand spankin’ new interface and exclusive content, including Judge Dredd. It’s worth a looksee for comics fans and iPod owners alike.

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The Geek

Jack Thompson Needs a Life. Scott Johnson has an Extra One.

Posted by The Geek on Sep 24th, 2007

If you read gaming comics and haven’t seen this yet, you’ll get a kick out of it. Everyone’s favorite crackpot Jack Thompson is fighting with another Web Cartoonist. This time it’s Scott Johnson of ExtraLife for his Make-Fun-of-Jack contest.  Aparently Blog post comments are the hip new way lawyers are putting out cease and desist [...]

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midnightcartooner

Mr. Ryan Estrada ~IS~ The Winner of Webcomics

Posted by midnightcartooner on Sep 17th, 2007

It is with a bitterness in my mouth and a pang of desperation in my heart that I concede the possession of webcomics to Mr. Ryan Estrada, the owner and purveyor of RyanEstrada.com, and newly minted site, Cartoon Commune. This new site celebrates the fact that Estrada is now a full-time artist. The [...]

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daku

Webcomic News Around the Web

Posted by daku on Sep 16th, 2007

It’s hard to come up with webcomics news from anywhere else unless you’re thinking PAX. Talk about good timing. This seemingly innocent expo to gather fans together was posed just right to take over the gaping hole E3 left behind. I would be surprised if a couple thousand of the attendees didn’t even know what [...]

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The Geek

This List isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Posted by The Geek on Sep 14th, 2007

 It’s lunch time here in my world. I sitting here eating rock hard rice from Monday, listening to my co-workers discuss who fragged who in Enemy Territory and I’m writing up Web comics news for you guys. Dang I’m dedicated.
 
Speaking of dedicated, there was an article posted on Cracked magazine’s site about the eight funniest [...]

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daku

Zampzon Reveals The Inner Nathan

Posted by daku on Sep 13th, 2007

The days have been long and number of posts small but since it has been a few days, not to mention the scathing sarcasm sent my way, I feel compelled to reveal onto the world the product of one Nathan Bramble. The other original host of the show was Zampzon. He was the one with [...]

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daku

News From Around The Internet

Posted by daku on Sep 11th, 2007

Comixpedia – It was ages ago when news hit us about the mammoth project that is the webcomic wiki was needing some new parents. There was a post and email to all us hosting sites and critics to ask if any of us had the time and energy to absorb such a large administrative project. [...]

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