Bomb Shelter Comics is proud to present the 2008 Webcomic Idol contest! The winner gets a shot at a spot on the BSC roster which brings an increased spotlight on his/her strip plus a community of creators from whom to pull (steal?) ideas from!
Make sure to stop by the Idol site and cast your vote for your [...]
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Posted by The Geek on Oct 28th, 2008
Digital Strips 148
Three more new strips for everyone this week. This time around, the themes are bears and really great art. Each of these creators has a really knack for the use of color in the medium and could really go far, and exactly 2/3 of the strips feature talking bears in role or the [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Oct 26th, 2008
Sean Kleefeld notices a Zuda comic that moved to another site after the contest and wonders what happened to the other non-winners. David Gallaher drops in in comments to point to quite a few that have found new homes. In face, I think the losers can be winners with Zuda, because they can attract a [...]
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I mean, is there a bigger headline in all of webcomics? Mike and Jerry at the Penny Arcade decide that, when the rights for the domain Webcomics.com lapses, they want to snatch it up. Upon doing so, the site chores are handed over to the Halfpixel crew.
With this new domain, Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, Dave Kellett, and Brad Guigar [...]
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With PC Weenies getting on in years, Krishna Sadasivam decided it was time to try something new. That something is another in a growing list of comics-on-commission sites, this one focusing on the soulless and mechanical members of our society.
No, not John McCain. (ZING!)
For some amount of money, Krishna will draw you a robot. $25 [...]
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Earlier this week, ComixTalk linked to an article written by the ever-visible DJ Coffman about Flash and how it should be used in webcomics.
It’s a big issue right now as more sites seem to be embracing this visually rich yet unrewarding method of displaying their comics online. Zuda Comics, who DS has been following for [...]
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Not too much going on today that Brigid hasn’t already tied up with a nice, big bow, so let’s talk webcomics and Twitter for a bit.
Shortpacked! is a great strip about toy retailers and the lives they lead. The characters are well developed and really help to take the storytelling to the next level in [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Oct 23rd, 2008
Shadowline recently launched a webcomics page, and I visited it with great curiousity. At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson commented that there wasn’t a lot of novelty to it:
On the one hand, using creators with some experience means the publisher and readers can have faith that they know how to meet promised deadlines and [...]
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Posted by Brigid on Oct 21st, 2008
Gary Tyrrell tackles a loaded question: How do you gauge the popularity of a webcomic?
It has been just about a year since Marvel Comics launched their digital comics site, and now they are moving in a slightly new direction with some online-only titles based on their characters. Johanna Draper Carlson has some observations and a [...]
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The folks over at Frumph decided we didn’t have enough webcomics award shows/ceremonies, so they decided to create the WCRCAs (Webcomic Readers Choice Awards), not to be confused with the WCCAs (Webcomic Choice Awards).
Among the categories are simple ones like Best Art, Writing, Design, Author Congeniality (how well the creator tends to interact with the [...]
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