Tag: Webcomics
Webcomic Alert: Moth City by Tim Gibson
Mark Waid's webcomic portal Thrillbent recently underwent a makeover and now has comics you can embed directly on your site, which is a great...
Axe Cop Season Two webisodes have begun
But it's the Rugburn-produced motion comic AXE COP—not the yet-to-premiere animated version that will debut in July as part of Fox's ADHD adult animation...
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.
Kick-Watcher: The way it should be: Lars Brown’s Penultimate Quest
Kickstarter has been a talking point in the comics industry ever since its conception, most recently and prominently for the fallout between Mark Andrew Smith and...
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...
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.















