The webcomic Axe Cop inspired film school director Peter Muehlenberg to turn the first two episodes into online movies. Muehlenberg’s fan video, which he posted on YouTube late last month, turns the first Axe Cop webcomic into a 2-minute blast of cheesy flames, dinosaur blood and exposition. He said he shot Axe Cop the Movie: […]
Daniel Lieske, a German artist working as a digital artist at a German computer and console games company has started a new web graphic novel. Top rate digital art. Check it out.
Yesterday an anti-gay marriage group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), linked to a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon by Zach Weiner – presumably because it was viewed of as pro-traditional sexuality. Zach was alerted to the image being used but was also alerted that the group was pulling the image directly from his server […]
Zack Smith writes about Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North and his successful anthology that briefly became Amazon’s number one book Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die.Nrama: The book became almost a rallying point for webcomics creators, given the extent of the collaboration and push it received. […]
Matthew Petz won last year’s Zuda monthly contest only to watch DC Comics close down Zuda. JK Parkin profiles Matthew’s relaunch of War of the Woods on ComiXology and how the rights to his creation were returned to him.Petz told me that when Zuda closed down, he was offered a percentage of what he would […]
The Webcomic List Awards have been announced. The top prize, Best Comic, went to Eddie Pitman for his comic Red’s Planet. Category award winners include:Best Writing Award – xkcd Best Color – Dresden Codak Best Black and White – The Abominable Charles Christopher Best Non-Traditional – Romantically Apocalyptic Best Character – Cleopatra in Space Best […]
Jeff Parker (the Portland, OR based comic book writer and artist) and illustrator Erika Moen have launched a new webcomic entitled Bucko. They describe the comic as:Poor Rich “Bucko” Richardson just wants to finally get a job and maybe have another opportunity to talk to that one cute girl he met at that party. A […]
There is a movement afoot and it’s not just in Tunisia and Egypt. Last week I posted a blurb about a post by Steve Niles about how comic creators should spend more time promoting comics they like and spend less time tearing comics they don’t like apart. That’s the message that resonated with me, but […]
Schlock Mercenary creator Howard Tayler received a cease and desist letter from Franklin Covey telling him he’s infringed on their 7 habits trademark (made popular by Stephen Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”). Howard has a long running parody called “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates,” which Franklin Covey felt infringed on […]
From Mike Rhode writing for Washington City Paper: As Steve Conley notes, he’s done it all. He started with a science fiction Web comic (before they were called that), moved it into a comic book, switched to doing an online political comic strip, drew a few licensed comic books including an excellent Star Trek series, […]
Graphic novelist Doug TenNapel has started a webcomic (or web graphic novel) called Ratfist. After making 10 graphic novels I thought it would be a good time to try the medium of the on-line comic. I?ve watched Ethan Nicolle tear the internet apart with AXECOP for the last year and he makes it look so […]
The 2010 Webcomic List Awards nominees have been announced. I’ve promoted a few of them here as being worthy your time namely Bug and Red’s Planet, but as I look at the list – I’m seeing quite a few worth voting for.Here they are:For Best Writing Sinfest Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Bug Oglaf (NSFW) xkcdFor […]
I found Axe Cop in the news just before going into my holiday hiatus. For those new to the webcomic – it’s created by two brothers – one does the writing one does the art. What is unique about the collaboration is that the writing is done by the six year-old Malachai Nicolle and the […]
Nice write-up for Matthew Inman, the creator of the Oatmeal over at the Economist: The simplicity of Mr Inman’s drawing style, coupled with an innocent rowdiness?think of Michael J. Fox or Lee Evans swearing?has made his site popular. It is visited by 3m-4.5m viewers each month. Most visitors look at several pages. The site debuted […]
Universal Uclick has posted a notice to Pibgorn fans that it has turned off the comment section under the Pibgorn comic. Without a doubt, Pibgorn is a comic strip that generates a lot of conversation. But given Pibgorn’s particular subject matter, and the themes depicted in many of Brooke’s breathtaking sketches and finished pieces, the […]