Webcomic Alert: Bookmark Jason Little’s BORB
Whoa! Jason Little -- BeeComix, Shutterburg Follies—has launched a daily webcomic called BORB and it concerns a hobo and his hobo-adventures.
New Devices and the Digital Comics Landscape
by Bruce Lidl
The last few weeks have seen a number of big developments in the digital comics realm, from the highs of Marvel’s big announcements at SXSW...
Four webcomics = one half a Veronica Mars on Kickstarter
It's been a HUGE month for webcomics projects on Kickstarter with no less than four six-figure projects.
The Cyanide and Happiness crew netted $770,309...
New video explores the astounding world of Nick Gurewitch’s hair
This PBS video--part of their Off Book series--spotlighting webcartooniSts have been making the rounds. It's only 7 minutes long but spotlights:
Christina Xu, Breadpig
Nick Gurewitch,...
Webcomic Alert: “I have the right”
Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for daring to go to school to get an education. Zen Pencils has a fine webcomic about her struggle called MALALA YOUSAFZAI: I have the right.
Webcomic alert: Dave Eggers and Noah van Sciver
Trip City Presents "You'll Have to Save That For Another Time" by best selling author (and McSweeny's editor) Dave Eggers and artist Noah Van Sciver (The Hypo).
More details on Make That Thing, TopatoCo’s Kickstarter Fulfillment House
A couple of interviews with more information on Make That Thing, the new company that helps successful Kickstarter campaign actually send out all their rewards. it's a division of TopatoCo, the webcomics's merchandising company which already has a formidable infrastructure—a fork lift!, warehouses, employees!—and manufacturing contacts to help their cartoonists sell their merch. The program is rolling out slowly as an in house project.
Review: The Adventures of Superhero Girl
Sometimes a book comes out that I'm so ridiculously excited about I get paranoid that I'm going to be disappointed in some way. And...
On the Scene: ‘The Cartoonist in Comics’ at Housing Works with Haspiel, Fingerman, Gulledge,...
Autobiographical comics used to be a feature of zines and small private presses, but readers are increasingly able to follow their favorite genre of...
Finally the reality show about cartoonists: Strip Search
STRIP SEARCH, the reality show about a house full of cartoonists competing for $15K and a year of "being embedded" at Penny Arcade, debuted earlier this week. You can watch the first episode above and the second episode is now up as well. The show is produced by the Penny Arcade crew, with Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins as judges. (They ran a half million dollar Kickstarter to fund the show last year) 12 cartoonists -- six male, six female, are flown to a house in Seattle to compete for the prize, in the classic format. The 12, chosen from a thousand entrants, are mostly webcomickers, but more on that in a bit.
Doing it their way: Cyanide & Happiness
Since we've been talking about career paths and what not for the last few days, here's another one: after turning down three TV development deals, including Comedy Central, the webcomic Cyanide & Happiness has decided to go DIY.
John Allison and Matt Bors weigh in on making money in comics
It's a Monday early in the month, you just paid the rent and you're now wondering how you are going to live on celery for the next 27 days—that must be why so many posts on how to make a living at this here thing are coming out today. We've already seen Jerry Ordway plead to be taken seriously as a creator. But it's not just the old paper and ink crowd that's fretting this day. The webcomickers are at it too.






















