It’s award season for the world of comics once again, and to celebrate we’re going to show up at the ceremony, mock the losers and try to find some way to attach ourselves to the winner and just make a general mess of everything. But until we can make tickets to the show in photoshop, [...]
30
Jun
Digital Strips 136 – Review: Eisner Award Nominees
Posted by The Geek in 2008
Published in Podcasts, Reviews
Derrick Fish has been writing and drawing Dandy and Company since 2001, and he likes to mix it up a bit. I haven’t read all the strips, but from what I have seen of the archives, Dandy is a smart take on the gag-a-day concept. The strips revolve around Bernard, a sweet little boy, and [...]
Wowio.com is down at the moment. The site says they are gearing up to go global, and that they will reopen in July. Over at The Beat, though, Heidi MacDonald thinks something else is up; she hears the company is going to be sold. Wowio always sounded too good to be true. Customers get to [...]
24
Jun
Digital Strips 135 – Review: Good Ship Chronicles
Posted by The Geek in 2008
Published in News, Podcasts, Reviews
It’s show time again. This time we review Good Ship Chronicles by Tauhid Bondia and let me tell you, the ship isn’t the only thing that’s good about this strip. We spend most of the time singing the praises of this high class, high adventure set in a distant future where everything is just like [...]
22
Jun
Sunday Sitdown With Charlie Trotman a.k.a. Spike, creator of Templar, AZ ~OR~ Join The Mystery!
Posted by midnightcartooner in 2008
Published in Interviews, News
It’s no secret that our inbox gets crowded from time to time. It’s also no secret that this inbox is occasionally overlooked, sometimes for weeks or months at a time, making your news, the little details and announcements that you want us to shout from the tippity-top of Mount DS, fall into a black hole [...]
15
Jun
BitArtist 1.0 Is Here ~TO~ Help Manage Your Webcomic
Posted by midnightcartooner in 2008
Published in Announcement, News
It’s always a proud moment when one of your own does something noteworthy and today, we at Digital Strips can share in that pride. Our very own webmaster and resident fix-the-Internet-it’s-broken-again guy, Jerry Stephens, is proud to announce that his webcomic management system, BitArtist, is now out of beta and open to the public! Here’s [...]
13
Jun
The Chemistry Set Celebrates Two Year Anniversary ~WITH~ “No Formula” Anthology
Posted by midnightcartooner in 2008
Published in Announcement, News, Web Comics in Print
First off, ever heard of The Chemistry Set? I hadn’t either, so this write-up might serve to get some more eyeballs on this two-year-old webcomic collective. Containing nearly twenty different comics, this collective (which, with numbers like that, should really be considered more of a service) certainly looks to exhibit some great talents, with a [...]
12
Jun
Wes Molebash Teaches Kids ~HOW TO~ Draw Comics
Posted by midnightcartooner in 2008
Published in Announcement, News
I’ve always wanted to be asked to do this. Like many other cartoonists before him, Wes Molebash has taken the time out of his busy schedule to drop by a local school to teach the kids the joys of cartooning. Me? I don’t know that I would have the patience to give the tykes a [...]
11
Jun
Two years ago, DJ Coffman was granted his greatest wish when his new superhero work, Hero By Night, was chosen as the first winner of Platinum Studio’s Comic Book Challenge, a contest designed to discover the next great comic book creator. Platinum subsequently put out an HBN mini-series and then an ongoing series, both of [...]
In this episode of Digital Strips we talk about patterns. All kinds of patterns and how the should and should not be used in a Zuda entry. Mostly we deal the pattern of most of the entries being of the Sci-fi and superhero genre, and the patterns (read: cliches or tropes) involved in this kinds [...]
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