Posted By:
midnightcartooner on May 11, 2008
More and more creators are learning that it’s easy as cake to take their webcomics and get them printed. Even if an established printing house won’t pick up a collected work, there are options via Lulu and other print-on-demand services that ensure your ego, large and shadow-inducing as it is, can be seen by as many eyes as you can shove it under.
And so, with that in mind, I bring you Under Review, my weekly (and in some/most cases, bi-, tri-, and quadra-weekly) review space for the latest in webcomics print volumes. I inaugurate this new column with the first volume of Looking For Group, the fantasy-adventure webcomic, written by Ryan Sohmer and drawn by Lar DeSouza.
Read on…
Posted By:
midnightcartooner on May 5, 2008
Newest addition to the DS team and Senior European Correspondent Michael Rouse-Deane (or Mike Rouse-Deane, to those who know him) wrote about the recent Beaver and Steve contest to determine who might take over art chores on the next few weeks of strips for the hiatus-fearing B&S creator, James Turner. From the moment I spotted this on
my RSS, I knew I would have to peer deeply into the souls ofevery entrant of this competition.
Luckily for you, that time is now.
Turner has already named his winner and runners-up, so speculation can be laid to rest. It’s now time to take a second look at the pool of hopefuls and see what made this a grand try at matching, and in some cases surpassing, the dry-as-bones humor of B&S.
Alphabetically (by first name, anways) we shall go, and we start off with my personal favorite, the runner-up Andy Powell. It took some lookin’, but I was finally able to track down more of his work and don’t you worry about Mr. Powell. Dude’s got enough chops to make it in any art field.
Clare Potts’ entry must be noted as she is the only one with the stones to have her own human characters act out the script as Turner wrote it. Bravo on a job differently done, Clare.
And the award for Best Alternative Milk-Pouring Style goes to… runner-up, Drew Mokris! Behind-the-back!
Read on…
Posted By:
midnightcartooner on May 2, 2008
If you play video games, and have played either Assassin’s Creed or Grand Theft Auto IV, you’ll know (and possibly even understand) why I’ve had few updates recently. I also put my own strip on indefinite hiatus which you would think would free up more time for more posts, but whatever.
If you know what the above title means, then you’ve probably already heard this news and are saving up your Xbox Live coin to get it. If not, the term “gone gold” means it is finished and ready to be shipped to retailers. Except in this case, the game is downloadable, via the PA crew’s own new Greenhouse service or Xbox Live. PC owners can take their own created character side-by-side with Gabe and Tycho sometime later this quarter, but 360 players will have to wait a bit longer for their chance to fight alongside two of the most charismatic characters ever created.
For those who salivate over such things, the press release can be found here.
