Plenty of news to get this week started off right, including a big name comics publisher with more webcomics collections in the works and yet another plagiarism scandal, with the work being displayed on T-shirts this time around. Let’s get right to it, shall we?
- The biggest story in webcomics right now is, unfortunately, [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Feb 24th, 2008
Matthew Reidsma’s High Maintenance Machine is a diary comic that captures a moment from each day of his life. The webcomic has an intimate feel—Reidsma seldom uses more than six panels, and the focus is firmly on a few characters: Reidsma, his wife Wendy, and a handful of their friends. Sometimes the point of the [...]
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As part of the Xbox Live XNA Game Studio announcement at the recent Game Developers Conference, a game based on the popular webcomic, Little Gamers, has been released as one of seven demos for possible future video games.
I’ve taken all seven games for a spin and though they offer a wide breadth of gameplay types, [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Feb 21st, 2008
Attention, webcomickers: Irish blogger Purity Brown looks at the standard webcomics interface and finds it good; and she asks that if you deviate from it, please have a good reason for doing so. And she comes up with some user-unfriendly examples of dead tree media, too. Let me add my own: the MySpace comics page, [...]
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Posted by The Geek on Feb 20th, 2008
If you’ve never read Brad Guigar’s Evil Inc. now is a great time to mend your foolish ways. Evil Inc. has made the big jump into full color. With the help of his new colorist, Geek Tragedy’s Ed Ryzowski Guigar is making the evil parts of the Internet all the more colorful.
There are several things [...]
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Any time a famous creator from any medium, be it comic books, movies, or television, decides to grace the growing suburb of Webcomicville with their presence, it’s up to us, the media (stop laughing) to cover it. We are the ones who must ask the questions like, “Why use webcomics over the tried-and-true medium [...]
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Posted by The Geek on Feb 15th, 2008
They say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. For me, it was more like I didn’t know what I had until it was gone and then came back again.
Back when I first started reading Web comics, I started with the big names. All the usual suspects, Penny Arcade, PvP, Order of the [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Feb 15th, 2008
T Campbell has posted his latest webcomics survey at Webcomics.com, basing his rankings on Alexa and Compete, and he goes on to discuss the results in detail. The top ranking “comic” in the Alexa survey is I Can Has Cheezburger?, which some people may find disturbing but T thinks is a legitimate inclusion. PostSecret is [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Feb 14th, 2008
Anything Warren Ellis does is news, pretty much by definition, so it’s big news that his webcomic FreakAngels will launch tomorrow. Warren writes it, Paul Duffield draws it, and it updates once a week with a five-page installment. I’m not sure what I think about that format, actually, but I guess we’ll see.
Katsucon is this [...]
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As webcomics creators, many of us are happy to simply have an outlet for our creative energies. However, once you make it big, nothing gives you that high more than earning respect from your peers, especially the ones who have done it longer and bigger than you (or so I’m told). Recently, Scott [...]
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