Tag: Webcomics

'90s nostalgia fans get in line! Van Sciver travels back to the '90s comics scene in Seattle, when "comics were cool" and hijinks ensue.

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An amazing descent into oddness by Wright Award nominee Connor Willumsen to disturb your weekend getaway.

The wonderful thing about Thought Bubble, an annual festival in Leeds that encompasses the academic Comics Forum and a two day comics convention covering all sequential art from Bunny to Batman, is that two people can attend the event and come away with a completely different experience. So while Steve Morris brilliantly scratched the surface, the following is the tale of my adventures as I visited one of the UK's most popular conventions for the very first time.

For over four years Karl Kerschl has been writing and drawing his award-winning The Abominable Charles Christopher, releasing a new strip every Wednesday. I spoke to him about singlehandedly writing, drawing, printing, and distributing his weekly webcomic and got teasers about upcoming projects. Warning: there are spoilers of Charles in the interview. You can read the entire story for free on the Abominable site.

After a brief flirtation during publishing webcomics in the "graphic novel boom" of the Aughts, it's been pretty rare to see something picked up by a major publisher, but here's just such a story:...

Over the last ten or so years, one thing has been guaranteed: where there are new ways of developing and progressing digital comics, there you will find David Gallaher. Writer for a variety of comics including High Moon, Box 13, Darkstar & The Winter Guard and Deadlands, Gallaher has been at the forefront of digital comics for years. Amongst others he was involved with the DC digital project Zuda, had the first original content published by ComiXology, and has recently successfully brought his new graphic novel Only Living Boy to Kickstarter.

Actually it's from Nobrow #7, but Jillian Tamaki's haunting Half-Life can be read in its entirety. I won't spoil it, but it is reminiscent of a classic 50s SF film...even if it does go in another, surprising direction at the end.

Cameron Stewart's excellent webcomic Sin Titulo has finished and will get a hardcover collection from Dark Horse next year. The strip, described as "a dark, neo-noir semi-autobiographical mystery thriller concerned with dreams, family, and memory" launched in 2007 as part of the TX webcomics collective, and has continued on, with a few lengthy breaks, ever since. It won the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic in 2010

Phil and Kaja Foglio's Girl Genius has been a success on the web ever since folks started anxiously asking "Can peoplez read comicz on webz?" and it even has a load of Hugo Awards to show for it. But In a humorous press release copied below, they've announced they're moving over to TopatoCo for fulfillment and merchandizing, while staying with Diamond for distribution.

“An Evening with Dean Haspiel”, held at the Cinema Arts Center, in Huntington Long Island on October 4th, was as much a tour of the last twenty years of comics history as a look...

Or, basically, the 'Scott Pilgrim' Guy Interviews the 'Homestuck' Guy and explains it for those who find it somewhere between dubstep and Gangnam on the "things that are current" list. Homestuck is big and popular....