Tag: Webcomics

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...

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...

Okay. This is exciting. A new webcomic site called The Expositor presents the new work of Noah Van Sciver and Joseph Remnant. These two...

Following up on the successful webcomic to print model of FRIENDS WITH BOYS, Faith Erin Hicks is serializing her new GN for First Second,...

Lora Innes, creator of THE DREAMER, has a post up about fan art based on her characters. Short version: she approves and enjoys it, but she also provides some guidelines. A sample:

A very special comics "experience" -- the new xkcd: Click and Drag is an actually a vast, draggable world of in-jokes and wonder. There's even a guide to the comic strip. It's immersive and amazing.

[You can't run a comics company without making some waves, and the name Bill Jemas still conjures up strong reactions from many who were around when he ran Marvel from 2000-2004. Jemas, along with Joe Quesada, oversaw a period of revolution and rebirth for Marvel as they started the Ultimates line and made many other business changes. Controversial at the time, Ultimization and other bold moves definitely put Marvel back in the game and provided a blueprint for future company-wide changes—as well as making Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar and J. Michael Straczynski household names in households where comics are read.

The Shifty Look webcomic portal has just announced a Katamari comic by Alex Culang and Raynato Castro, the duo behind the site's Buttersafe. Launched this summer, Shifty Look is dedicated to resurrecting old NamCo Bandai video game properties as webcomics. Katamari Damacy is of course the much-beloved video game where players roll a giant magnetic ball around to pick up crap and rebuild the sky. You could say it's a literary nerd classic, and these designs are adorable.

Boing-Boing, the blog that made blogging cool, is publishing its first ongoing SFf comic...and it's the venerable indie comics classic Elfquest! Starting Monday, Boing Boing will serialize an all new Elfquest story by creators Richard and Wendy Pini:

Andrew Pepoy's Simone and Ajax is a charming long running strip about a woman pirate and her dinosaur. Pepoy's been working on it in various forms since the early 90s—a collection, The Adventures of Simone & Ajax, is available from IDW (a collection I never knew even existed until now) and Pepoy has now brought it back as a once a week webcomic. Bookmark.

By Steve Morris Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel, and Pretty Deadly not enough for her, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has taken on a new project, at...