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NYT highlights Rage Comics
The New York Times tech section highlights a popular community created comics on Reddit called Rage Comics. In that way, rage comics are not like the average viral YouTube video. They are more like a Bob Newhart sketch: the laughs come not from replaying the public foolishness of some stranger, but from watching the awkward [...]
Posted on: May 11, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 6 Comments
Profiled: Katie Cook and Gronk
iO9 reviews Katie Cook and her webcomic Gronk. Gronk is a sweet comic, devoid of malice (except, perhaps, toward Canadian geese, but they’re jerks). But Gronk herself is, for all of her adorableness, a fully fleshed out character. She’s imaginative and playful, but she’s also selfish and doesn’t think her actions all the way through. [...]
Posted on: May 2, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Mark Waid launches Thrillbent.com
Veteran comic writer and editor Mark Waid is stepping into webcomics launching a new site called Thrillbent From the website: THRILLBENT was created because John Rogers and I believe strongly that comics can and will be a thriving mass medium in the digital age if-IF-they’re created for modern media devices and not exclusively for printed [...]
Posted on: May 2, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
Check out: Just the First Frame
Henry Kuo developed a website that displays the first frame of a comic. I created Just the First Frame to be the best way to discover comics on the web. Two opposing issues surround web comics today: discoverability (sharing) and copyright infringement. I believe that showing only the first frame of each comic elegantly solves [...]
Posted on: Apr 27, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 3 Comments
Axe Cop coming to Fox Network
The webcomic Axe Cop has been picked up by the Fox Network for their Saturday Late Night programming. The network has ordered six 15-minute installments. From Variety: Weidenfeld, a former Adult Swim exec, had his eye on “Axe Cop” from the time he started scouting properties for Animation Domination HD earlier this year. The segs [...]
Posted on: Apr 24, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 5 Comments
Howard Tayler nominated for Hugo Award
Howard Tayler, creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary, has been nominated for two Hugo Awards one for “Best Graphic Story” and “Best Related Work”. This is his fourth nomination for Best Graphic Story and second time for Best Related Work for his work on the Writing Excuses podcast. From his blog: The “Best Graphic Story” [...]
Posted on: Apr 9, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
Brad Guigar makes the leap to full-time webcomicker
Brad Guiger has announced on his blog that he is making the full-time leap in to his webcomic Evil Inc. by taking a buyout from the Philadelphia Daily News where he has worked for 14 years. From his blog: A lot of people have asked me if I’m scared about leaving the regular paycheck I [...]
Posted on: Apr 6, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 5 Comments
Success in Comics: Girls with Slingshots creator Danielle Corsetto
Girls with Slingshots creator Danielle Corsetto represented the webcomics model at the Success in Comics seminar. She started her strip in 2004 when few were living off their webcomics. Her original intent was to follow her childhood dream of creating a comic strip for syndication, but as she developed and posted her strip online she [...]
Posted on: Feb 28, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 5 Comments
Order of the Stick raised $1.2 MILLION
The Kickstarter project to fund a reprint project estimated to cost $57,000 has raised over $1.2 MILLION dollars for Order of the Stick creator Rich Burlew. Depending on the level of donation, backers of the project were promised several incentives from fridge magnets to a cameo in the webcomic. In total 14,952 individuals donated the [...]
Posted on: Feb 22, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 7 Comments
RStevens raised $20k+ for complete Diesel Sweeties collection
RStevens, creator of Diesel Sweeties, has raised over $20,000 to create a complete ebook collection of his work. The amazing part of this crowd-funded project is that his intent is to give away the ebook for free. The original fundraising goal is $3,000 to compensate RStevens for this time to create the book as well [...]
Posted on: Feb 15, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Order of the Stick to raise $500k for out-of-print reprints
Amazing. Rich Burlew has raised nearly half of a million dollars through Kickstarter to reprint out-of-print collections of his webcomic Order of the Stick. The project has over 6000 supporters who have contributed anywhere from $10 to $5000. The fund drive will continue until February 21st.
Posted on: Feb 3, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
10,000 downloaded R Stevens’ Diesel Sweeties iBook
Dieselt Sweeties creator R Stevens decided to create an eBook using Apple’s newly released iBook Author. The result was a month’s worth of comics that was outputted as a PDF ebook. He estimates that it was downloaded 10,000 times. From GigaOm: Response to the format has been “overwhelmingly positive,” Stevens said in a blog post, [...]
Posted on: Jan 27, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 6 Comments
Stevens releases free ebook of Diesel Sweeties Volume 1
R. Stevens, creator of Diesel Sweeties, is releasing a free ebook version of his first Diesel Sweeties collection. It was first published in 2003 and includes the first hundred or so comics. The eBook has no DRM.
Posted on: Jan 20, 2012, Section: Comic strips, web comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Interviewed: Brad Guigar about Webcomics.com
Brad Guigar, creator of Evil Inc. and the editor of Webcomics.com was interviewed by Brigid Alverson for Comic Book Resource’s Robot 6 blog about Webcomics.com that went behind pay-wall two years ago. Robot 6: I want to start with a general question: Are webcomics still an important sector of the comics world? And how do [...]
Posted on: Jan 17, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 6 Comments
NCS creates new award category for webcomics
The National Cartoonists Society has created a new and separate award category for webcomics this year in its division awards. The category is simply named “On-Line Comic Strips” and requires that the feature be a comic strip (no single panel or long-form narrative), appear on the web only at least weekly, and the creator has [...]
Posted on: Jan 10, 2012, Section: web comics, Comments: 36 Comments
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