Tag: Webcomics

Has it really been stressed enough how great the comics that The Nib, edited by Matt Bors and Eleri Mai Harris, is publishing are? Here's a new one called Trigger Warning: Breakfast and i have towarn you it is not a pleasant read, but it is powerful. The author is anonymous. For reasons you will understand when you read it.

Lauren Weinstein is running a five part webcomic at Nautilus about discovering that both she and her husband (TCJ.com editor Tim Hodler) were carriers of the cystic fibrosis gene, and their unborn child had a 25% chance of having the incurable disease.

Frequent Beat contributor Todd Allen has just launched a Kickstarter for a new edition of his book The Economics of Digital Comics —the goal is quite modest—$500, and it's already more than halfway there....

Hope Larson has just launched a webcomic called Solo. She writes:

After several years and countless surprising twists and turns in the lives of the main characters, Sarah Burgess' long-running webcomic 'The Summer of Blake Sinclair' has come to an end. But now readers can...

Christian Beranek is the writer of Validation, a webcomic telling stories from the life of a trans girl living in the city. The series addresses the idea of her looking for a place in...

Sam Alden has just posted the first part of a longer story called HOLLOW part I—it's a digital version of a comic he had print copies of for sale at TCAF. It's interesting to...

The webcomic series Strong Female Protagonist has a Kickstarter running to take the series to print, and has already crushed the original target funding harder than Godzilla stamping on innocent civilians. From the creative...

It's been a voyage of discovery for Tüki Save the Humans, Jeff Smith's ongoing webcomic. It was always expected to go to print, but originally in black and white. However, it's now been announced...

We live in a pretty amazing time for comics, as my previous post on SVA's graduating class suggested. You could spend the whole day doing nothing but looking at mind boggling art on Tumblr. And once in a while something clicks. One young cartoonist who crossed my radar of late is Talya Modlin, whose webcomic is called Blimpakind!

Of late, former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has been returning to his comics roots, with the final volume of Umbrella Academy, and a proposed comic about punk cats called "All Ages" which he teased earlier this year on Twitter. And now he's written and drawn a comics about Twitter and twitter abuse. This obviously ties in a bit with an essay on the artists relation to their fan base he wrote earlier this year. And to be fair, when you're an idolized rock star, the intensity of fan reactions can be...strong.

As part of their "Project Black Sky" superhero lone relaunch, Dark Horse is launching a series of webcomics  at ProjectBlackSky.net. They've been promoting the launch via their viral IWatchTheSky.com site. The comcis will be scripted by Fred Van Lente (Brain Boy, Conan) along with various artists. Colorist Dan Jackson and letterer Nate Piekos are also part of the team. The comcis will run until September with new content almost daily. YOu can also pick up a Free Comic Book Day Project Black Sky book tomorrow.