Webcomics

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...

Autobiographical comics used to be a feature of zines and small private presses, but readers are increasingly able to follow their favorite genre of...

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.

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.

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.

A longer version of the animated Achewood being put together by creator Chris Onstad is now available. Has your mind been blown? Did it...

Popular webcomics getting immense Kickstarters is a real dog bites man story, but here it is: Aaron Diaz has a print project for his fantasy webcomics Dresden Codak up and after a day or so it has $189,773 with 27 days to go. The initial goal was a mere $30,000. It's already the 8th biggest comics Kickstarter of all times, and who knows how big it will get.

After a long, lonely world without the seminal webcomic Achewood, creator Chris Onstad busted out a big rainbow of hope yesterday with the epic news that he's been working on an animated series. He even gave us a clip of his efforts, above. And from there, to the big show:

I'll hold my hands up and admit I'm not a digital reader at all- there are a few web-comics which I love and keep...

Do you like space? Do you like comics? Do you like space comics? Do you like really well done space comics? Then you will really enjoy this Jed McGowan: Voyager.

Ron Perazza has been at the forefront of new digital comic projects for years, with his work at Zuda and ComiXology helping to pave...

In October of 2012, eight cartoonists spent three creatively game-changing weeks at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida as...