Tag: Webcomics

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.

I know that's the weirdest group of projects to put in one headline but I think it says a lot about the amount of variety that...

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

Web comicker Shaenon K. Garrity has accepted her mission in life: recapping every episode of The X-Files in comics form at Monster of the Week and this week she hits everyone's favorite episode: "Fluke Man" an eerie monstrosity that sent Scully and Mulder capering through rivers of smelly sewage. I remember attempting to get my family interested in the X-Files one Thanksgiving and this happened to be the episode that aired; needless to say, my attempt was never mentioned again, especially at meal times.

As one of the fruits of their huge Kickstarter campaign, the Penny Arcade folks have made Strip Search! which may finally be the comics competition TV show people have been expecting/dreading for a while. While the above link is a bit light on details, basically a bunch of webcomickers are thrown into a Seattle house and compete to draw the best comics. The contestants:

Vermont Cartoonist laureate James Kochalka is ending his long-running American Elf strip today after 14 years—the strip began in October 1998. During this time,...