The webcomic news just keeps flowin’ in and I just keep lettin’ it sail right by! But lo, what’s this? I seem to have accrued a clog in my usually steady flow! Must be time to apply some WordDraino (patent pending) and unclog that stubborn drain. Here it comes, it’s Interest Piquers for the week [...]
22
Mar
Get Your Interests Piqued Right Here ~AND~ It’s All FREE!
Posted by midnightcartooner in 2008
Published in News
I’m off to Anime Boston this weekend, H2 recorder in hand, and if all goes well I’ll be chatting up some folks on Artists Alley. In the meantime, here are some webcomics stories you may not have seen. Gary Tyrrell has a lengthy post on the panel Webcomics: A Primer, which includes lots of nuts-and-bolts [...]
We had so much fun last time that we decided to do another show. This time we leave the world of gag-a-day strips and delve in to the mysterious world of Sin Titulo by Cameron Stewart. It’s been a while since we’ve reviewed a strip like this (please keep any comments about how it’s been [...]
Over at Webcomics.com, T Campbell posts the top webcomics for March, based on Compete and Alexa rankings. As usual, caveats and analysis follow. Also posted on WC.C lately: Elanor Cooper interviews Sarah Ellerton, creator of Inverloch and The Phoenix Requiem, and Alexander Danner plays “where are they now” with four webcomickers who have moved on [...]
14
Mar
BREAKING NEWS ~AS~ CONTROVERSY ERUPTS AT ZUDACOMICS
Posted by midnightcartooner in 2008
Published in News
Man, I gotta write all my posts with the caps lock. Wes Molebash’s Zuda Comics entry, The Litterbox Chronicles, faces scrutiny of the flaming kind on the comment board for his strip. For days now, a user known only as Maledicta has taken Wes to task for not only the quality of the strip but [...]
13
Mar
DS 127: Review of Pictures for Sad Children
Posted by The Geek in 2008
Published in Podcasts, Reviews
Call your neighbors, wake the dog and gather your children around the iPod folks because the long wait is over. Digital Strips, the podcast you all know and love is back in action! Today we take a look at Pictures for Sad Children, the saddest comic that I have ever loved. It’s depressing, it’s drab, [...]
Are the Wikipedia webcomics wars over? T Campbell takes a lot of time to figure out that he really doesn’t know, but his analysis is still pretty interesting. There’s more at the Webcomics.com forum. Meanwhile Nicholson Baker has written a more general article on fighting “extremist deletion” on Wikipedia that includes a discussion of the [...]
9
Mar
Sunday Sitdown ~WITH~ Michael Rouse-Deane
Posted by midnightcartooner in 2008
Published in Interviews
If you know anything about webcomics, you know there are projects popping up left and right involving the best and brightest the Web has to offer. And if you know this, then you know the name of Michael Rouse-Deane. Michael is the master collaborator behind the cancer-research-friendly softcore calendar series, Tastefully Done, as well as [...]
The Webcartoonists Choice Awards were announced last night, in a live and online ceremony. The envelope please… Outstanding Comic: Girl Genius, by Phil and Kaja Foglio Outstanding Newcomer: Octopus Pie, by Meredith Gran Outstanding Artist: Tracy J Butler of Lackadaisy Outstanding Writer: Kaja and Phil Foglio of Girl Genius Outstanding Character Writing: Templar, Arizona by [...]
You know, there really is something to this bloggin’ thing. I mean, news needs exposure, we have some exposure, and so condensing news that others have reported on and researched equals more exposure. It’s a simple equation, nothing befitting any XKCD stick-figurie (new word!) but still one that fascinates me. Now that we’ve indulged my [...]
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