Webcomics

If you're a regular webcomic reader, you probably have a bunch of bookmarks that you hit daily. If you are a dabbler, you might want to explore a few more. Both types of readers might find the new Comic Rocket webcomic viewer a handy way to organize their reading matter. A browser-based platform that aims to be a kind of souped up feed for webcomics, you can mark your favorites and check them all with one click—although it's in beta, it's easy enough to navigate, We signed up three of our favorites in no time.

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J. Bone! J. Torres! Eric Orchard! Agnes Garbowska! All these cartoonists and more can be found at Saturday Morning Webtoons, an all ages comics portal. Among the strips featured:

This webcomics thing is heating up! Actually, what's heating up is that a new population of webcomics immigrants is moving to this new land and trying to learn the customs and shortcuts of the new society. And the natives—creators who came of age with the web as their native platform—are probably rolling their eyes and going on with business.

This isn't anything we haven't covered here before, but here's another take on the end of impulse shopping for comics, this time via Dean Haspiel. Haspiel covers the problem of shops that only order for pull lists, and suggests that there may be a substitute for impulse buying in webcomics. Linking to it also give us a chance to show this cute picture of Haspiel meeting Wallace and Gromit.

Mark Waid's been threatening to go digital for quite some time. He's also had a history of exploring options outside of DC and Marvel. Waid spent some time at Crossgen, launched his creator-owned Empire with Barry Kitson over at Image under the tragically short-lived Gorilla imprint, did Hunter/Killer with Marc Silvestri for Top Cow and spent some time as E-I-C at BOOM!, where he launch a few books with Irredeemable as his flagship title. Now he's finally combining those longstanding threats and his independent work with "Thrillbent."

We were just warming up to mention Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey Wells' new Kickstarter campaign for their webcomic SKIN HORSE....but it already achieved its goals in a mere 12 hours! But more money means more premiums, so consider pledging on.

by Serhend Sirkecioglu

-- Is this a potentially workable pay model for web comics?! OK, personally for me, Zombies officially went passe the moment Robert Kirkman appeared on The View, but that’s not deterring people from overdoing it. This web comic, I’ll let it slide 'cause it did more with the tired formula. Zombies Eat Republicans uses a scrolling format but where The First Word stops, ZER takes it further by incorporating sound and music (although looping, which can become annoying) and having the panels slide into place instead of being a static layout, making the read much more active. The comic employs a dragging command to move the story along; though the arrow keys are available, I suggest the mouse or touch for more control.

If you haven't checked out the Study Group webcomic site, you are missing some great stuff, which we hope to be spotlighting in more depth very soonish, but for now, here's The Blonde Woman – Part 1 – by Aidan Koch, an abstract, mysterious opus that many art comics readers have been buzzing about.

The Croatian superteam of writer Darko Macan and artist Igor Kordey have collaborated on several comics for Marvel and elsewhere (SOLDIER X), but to our knowledge, TEXAS KID, MY BRO is their first creator-owned webcomic/thingie. And it's incredible.

How on earth have we somehow never noticed Jillian Tamaki's webcomic SuperMutant Magic Academy? It's a bit of a dark look at the mutant/magic academy genre. You know, Ronald Searle for the Hunger Games generation. She's made a mini-comic with added strips, but it's already sold out. She assures us more is coming. More had better be.

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