» Webcomicker pro Dave Kellets, creator of Sheldon, will be at the Miami Books and Books talking about building a living wage career online with comics. I’m sure book signing is also in order as well as a Question & Answer period.» Tak Toyoshima, creator of Secret Asian Man, will be one of many exhibited […]
Opus wasn’t the only strip to come to a close with the Bush presidency. Webcomic Get Your War On by David Rees was a “hilarious and profane perspective on George W. Bush’s War on Terror.” His comic was printed in book collections and inspired a series of animated video adaptations. With the comic closure, Comic […]
The 2008 Weblog Award finalists have been announced. In the category of best comic strip, the final 10 include: Day By Day, Calamities of Nature, Town Called Dobson, Garfield Minus Garfield, What The Duck, The Book of Biff, Medium Large, Dilbert, Jesus and Mo and xkcd.Voting begins sometime today through the 12th. On a related […]
2008 might well be described in a word as a roller coaster or to many a third and fourth quarter stock market ride. Clearly many cartoonist achieved career highs and milestones, but for many cartoonist who live and die in the newspaper, there was a lot of dying. In writing this review, I can’t help […]
Uclick, a division of Unversal Press Syndicate, is rapidly expanding the number of comic strips and cartoons available through the iTunes app store. The latest announcement adds webcomic We the Robots by Christ Harding, Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions and Brooke McEldowney’s fantasy Pibgorn to the line up. We the Robots joined GoComics this year; Pibgorn […]
A few weeks ago I announced a weekly news round up of webcomic news. For those who follow the webcomic scene, you’ve noticed the weekly feature has languished. The big issue for me is that by waiting for each Wednesday to publish the round-up, some of the items are stale and finding time to gather, […]
Norm Feuti, creator of Retail, has announced that he is launching his strip Gill as a webcomic beginning today. Gill is a comic strip that takes a humorous look at the life of an 8-year-old boy who lives under less than ideal circumstances. Gill is overweight. His parents are divorced. His mother struggles to maintain […]
Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells’ webcomic Skin Horse has joined the GoComics lineup this week. Skin Horse has been running daily since January and is “about the staff of Project Skin Horse, a secret government organization dedicated to the protection of Americaâ??s nonhuman citizens: robots, beast-men, zombies, and other neglected products of mad […]
Over the weekend, United Media rolled out a radically new designed Comics.com and announced that their paid subscription model service was retired in favor of free, unfettered, full access to all their 92 comic features and 45 editorial cartoonists. Comics.com went from one of the most expensive paid subscription comic services to completely free. Free […]
Darrin Bell’s venerable Toon Talk comic forum has moved to a new location to escape the ever growing onslaught of spam. Toon Talk is now hosted on Ning – a social network type service that, in addition to the forum that made Toon Talk a worthwhile destination, also allows it’s community members to create blogs, […]
» webcomics.com is now owned and operated by Halfpixel. They’re pushing for it to become a community resource.» Webcomic Idol is underway over at Bomb Shelter Comics. Contests include: Shi Long Pang, The Superfogeys, The Book of Biff, Soul Driver, Simulated Comic Product, Xylia, Newspaper Comic Strip, Marooned, Lawn Darts and Calamities of Nature.» Panel […]
» The WebComic Reader Choice Awards were announced. Read the press release or visit Comixtalk for a nicely formatted list of the winners.» Pinkerton’s That’s The Smell Of Freedom collection is now shipping from Th3rd World Studios for only $3.99» Fans of John Lotshaw’s webcomic Accidental Centaurs will want to visit his site tomorrow. Have […]
Clear Blue Water, which was dropped by Universal Press Syndicate last month, has been relaunched as a daily webcomic on Karen Montague-Reyes’ new web site.From her blog she writes about the transition:I am excited about the new direction and the new freedom this change brings with it, but sad about the fact that it won’t […]
» Comic Book Resources reports that Cartoon Network is developing a number of webcomics for television that competed on Zuda. The first treatment is Peter Timony’s Night Owls. Other possible animated series include: Bayou, High Moon, Black Cherry Bombshells and Supertron.» Randall Munroe’s XKCD joked that someone should create a program that reads your YouTube […]
Starting this Wednesday, I’ll be starting what I hope to be a weekly feature called the Webcomic Weekly News Roundup where I post that goings on of new comics, books, and news in general about the webcomic industry. If you’ve got a news tip for your own comic or something that has been blogged about, […]