Tag: Webcomics

By and large, American comics are exercises in external action.  Rare is the superhero who ends up blighted by some existential crisis and is...

Here's a history comic on Newyorker.com by Julia Wertz about when pinball was illegal in New York City In other Wertz news, she's working on Impossible People, a memoir about her alcoholism that she started years ago and then abandoned. To fund it she's running her own crowd funding effort, which you can support at the above link. Why her own thing?

Scholastic's editions of Jeff Smith's BONE were what originally put Steve Hamaker on the map, and he's only improved since his introduction to the comics...

We've covered Oyster War here quite a bit, Ben Towle's historical fantasy webcomic about 19th century Chesapeake bay oystermen engaged in a territory war with some magical assistance— it's part Scalped, part Sailor Twain. Towle alluded to a print publisher a while and ago and Oni just made it official: the print, color version is coming in September for SPX! Towle is a three time Eisner nominee for books like his Amelia Earhart bio, and this is a fun, frolic of a book.

33 hours, $4000 -- you people need to do this. Songgu Kwon is a former Xeric grant winner for Blanche the Baby Killer. ...

Jen Sorenson illustrates a troubling story from a friend that has a little bit of pay back at the end. But not nearly enough.

As announced this weekend, the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award was given out, and the winner was Nilah Magruder for her webcomic M.F.K. Disclosure: I was one of the judges for this award. And I couldn't be happier that Magruder won.

§ High Moon, the werewolf/cowboy comic by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis is back. After running on DC's Zuda webcomic site (remember that?)...

According to a news blast they just sent out, Hiveworks, a digital comics portal, had 12,000,000 users in January—alst year it had a total of 65,000,000, so it's on track for a lot of growth. But what kind of growth? According to their about page, "Hiveworks is a creator owned publisher and studio that helps webcomic and online media creators turn their creative endeavors into sustainable businesses. We serve as mentors and as a home for many comics."

The New York Times has been dabbling in "future comics" type stuff over the past year orzo, and they se Lille Carré up to bat and she hits a home run with The Bloody Footprint an inquiry into memory and and identity that cleverly uses the scroll and gif panels for an effect distanced enough for memory and sharp enough for contemplation.

An autobiographical comic about her time working at the Fort McMurray logging camp. :

poster_JEFF1.jpg Carver is a new project by cartoonist Christopher Hunt, a talented artist whose been been seen in Dark Horse, 12 Reasons To Die, Escapo and elsewhere. But Carver is his passion project, a story that starts in 1913 Paris with Carver himself, a man with a mysterious past, and skills with both his fists and with the ladies. It's adventurous, romantic and ready to rock and roll. You can read the first chapter here or watch the teaser