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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
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
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