In our domain, many a hobbyist has found their creative outlet to remove themselves from their work a day world in this vast internet of comic virtue. For most it is all that is required and certainly all that can be handled, but there are a precious few who have found that not only can [...]
Welcome back one and all! I know you had fun in San Diego, your Convention Updates told me so. Told me all about the sites the sounds and the cool people you met. That’s terrific, really it is, but now you can all get back to your usual grind at the drawing board. You can [...]
Kazu Kibuishi is an accomplished creator of print and web comics alike. His print work includes Daisy Kutter, the up and coming Amulet, and his most lucrative project yet, the Flight anthologies. His online endeavors (hosted on his web site: boltcity.com) include Clive and Cabbage and the ever gorgeous Copper. Kazu’s creativity, observant imagination, and [...]
High and low upon these Nets of Inter virtue have I scoured looking for things to buy with the money I don’t have, but sadly my list of items is limited to wearable wisecracks in the form of T-shirts. Now, let it be known I am no stranger to these items of cloth and color [...]
Posted recently on The Web Comic Examiner is a lengthy interview with comic creator, connoisseur, pioneer, and hippy-sherpa-figurehead Scott McCloud on his new book “Making Comics”. Everyone has their opinion on Scott McCloud and his ideas (I am no exception) and usually they are very polarized. Some people think the guy is a genius while [...]
I’ve been up and down this internet persuing and perusing comics of all natures, kinds, and designs and I have found a fundamental truth among all of them. The 3/4 view of any given character is the angle supreme. Being a cartoonist myself, I can understand that. Not only is the 3/4 position fun as [...]
I’m a fan of the F-word. BIG fan. I love it almost as much as I love the S-word. I also like lewd and/or tasteless humor as well as horrific violence. Thankfully there is no shortage of any of these things in our beloved uncensored land of web-comics, but what about the people who don’t [...]
There is a comic out here on our vast internet that has secured a fond place in my heart, but yet fallen to the way side of many web comic discussions. I am referring to Blank Label’s, Ugly Hill by Paul Southworth. In his strip Mr. Southworth has created a loveable cast of characters in [...]
As long as web comics have been around the print industry has been thumbing its nose. They have become a grumpy old giant scoffing at our online triumphs, bashing our artistic styles, our approaches, and the varying degrees of craftsmanship. We can read such things on any forum we wish to peruse concerning the glories [...]
Have you seen those commercials about the Mac using the PC operating systems? I have. I don’t like them. In these commercials we see the Digital Diablo holding hands with an upstanding PC. On top of this blasphemy, the Malicious Mac informs the audience that he is still superior to PC. LIES!!! That has never [...]
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