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New Angry bird webcomic launched for holidays
They took over Halloween. Why not Christmas too? Via Robot6
Posted on: Dec 6, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 10 Comments
Profiled: Kate Beaton and her best selling Hark a Vagrant
Hark a Vagrant webcomic creator Kate Beaton is on her book tour promoting her book and as the CTV National News reports her fans were lined up around the block (click through link to watch video). Her book was also named in Amazon’s Best Comics and Graphic Novels for 2011. And has been on the [...]
Posted on: Nov 11, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
Check out: Axe Cop playing cards
I’ve mentioned the webcomic Axe Cop before. For those who aren’t familiar, the older brother, Ethan Nicolle, decided to have his younger brother (at the time at age 6) write a story that he would then illustrate. As you can imagine the mind of a six year old has no limits and the resulting work [...]
Posted on: Nov 10, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 3 Comments
Profiled: Howard Tayler and his webcomic Schlock Mercenary
Zack Smith over at Newsarama interviews webcomic maker Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary about his strip and production of his webcomic. Howard is one of the web guys I greatly admire and whose counsel I trust. He’s got a good business sense about what he does. A sample: Nrama: You have iPad and iPod [...]
Posted on: Nov 8, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
Chris Eliopoulos: How to STAY in comics
Misery Loves Sherman creator (and Eisner and Harvey award nominee) Chris Eliopoulos has penned (or typed) a must read for anyone working their way up in the comic industry. The topic – not how to break into comics, but how to stay. If you’re good enough, you’re not good enough. I hear so many people [...]
Posted on: Oct 31, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 3 Comments
PhD webcomic movie hitting campuses nationwide
A movie based on the popular webcomic PhD has been made and is being screened at university campuses across North America this fall. Jorge Cham, PhD creator worked with the Theater Arts at Caltech to make the movie. The project is unique in that it was produced entirely by members of the Caltech community, with [...]
Posted on: Oct 3, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments
NPR takes a look at Hark! A Vagrant!
Glen Weldon on NPR talks about Kate Beaton’s new Hark! A Vagrant collection due out tomorrow. Beaton is the master of comic strip pacing; several of Hark! A Vagrant!’s funniest strips feature panels with no dialogue at all, just a character (Aquaman, say, or an unamused King, or Poe) regarding the reader with a hilarious [...]
Posted on: Sep 26, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
Garrity: 16 things to ensure Kickstarter success
Kickstarter is the rage right now. It’s allowing a lot of people match up their pursuits with willing donors willing to help fund it. Shaenon Garrity, creator of the webcomic Narbonic, recently needed $10,000 to create a printed collection of her work. Using Kickstarter she raised $27,226. She’s written a few things (16 to be [...]
Posted on: Sep 14, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 5 Comments
Kurtz, Krahulik, Holkins launch new webcomic The Trenches
PVP creator Scott Kurtz and Penny Arcade creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins have launched a new webcomic called The Trenches. It’s described as one that “documents the tribulations of software testing with the precision tools of ‘the office comedy.’” Those in the game testing community are welcome to submit their horror stories and some [...]
Posted on: Aug 11, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
Ratfist comes to an end
The webcomic Ratfist by graphic novelist Doug TenNapel has come to a close at a neat 150 pages. On his blog, Doug says that when he started he knew that it would end at 150 pages (“The only way I could start a webcomic was if I knew it would end”). He also reveals that [...]
Posted on: Aug 5, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
Boston Globe features 5 professional webcomickers
Profiled over at the Boston Globe are KC Green, Andrew Hussie, Jeffrey Rowland, Jeph Jacques, and Richard Stevens who have all gone professional with their webcomics. Webcomics were once seen as a new path to syndication. Comic artists would post their work online, hoping to attract a large enough fan base that syndicates would take [...]
Posted on: Aug 2, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 13 Comments
History of Webcomics 1985 to present
Shaenon Garrity has posted a nice concise history of webcomics over on The Comics Journal. She breaks it up into five eras: 1985-1992: The Stone Age, 1993-1995: The Bronze Age, 1996-2000: The Singularity, 2001-2006: The Age of Sh– Getting Real, and 2007-Present: The Age of This Whole App Thing.
Posted on: Jul 15, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 4 Comments
Penny Arcade comic heading to big screen
Hollywood Reporter reports that Paramount Pictures has purchased the rights to New Kid by Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. The project is an adaptation of an online comic from Penny Arcade. The studio has picked up rights and tapped Book of Eli writer Gary Whitta to pen the script. Mary Parent and [...]
Posted on: Jun 3, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments
The Oatmeal takes copyright fight to Funnyjunk.com
Matthew Inman, creator of the webcomic The Oatmeal, has had to threaten legal action against FunnyJunk.com – a user-generated content site that had about every one of Matthew’s comics mirrored on the site with no link backs or in some cases acknowledgement of who the original artist was. Ars Technica reports on the fight to [...]
Posted on: Jun 2, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 0 Comments
Profiled: Zach Weiner and “Save Yourself, Mammal!”
Jason Oberholtzer, writing on forbes.com, interviews Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal creator Zach Weiner regarding his comic and his first collection of comics, Save Yourself, Mammal!. JO: What made the book so much more work? ZW: A couple things made it harder. First off, this is a compilation, so there was a lot of selection involved. [...]
Posted on: May 3, 2011, Section: web comics, Comments: 2 Comments
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