Tag: Webcomics

You can squarely file this one under hype, but it is also of interest for you sales chart followers. The original digital comic THE LOOKOUTS, by the Penny Arcade crew of Tycho and Gabe, Cryptozoic's Cory Jones, Ben McCool, and artist Robb Mommaerts is currently the number #3 digital comic at comiXology. Here are the top ten as of midnight Sunday:

Greg Farrell, he of the Strand strike comics, has posted a new comic about the history of Obamacare. It's a history of the whole process and in case you're dying to dig in to this light-hearted topic, this might get you through easy cocktail banter.

Yet another carnival! This one, as we understand it, is set up next to the Gaslamp Hilton in that area where the Scott Pilgrim Experience once stood. It's a video game arcade set up by ShiftyLook. Details below, but the pr notes that the Shifty Look panel will feature Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub and an announcement so...add it up.

Yes it's yet ANOTHER webcomics portal, but they are all so good and fun, we just keep collecting them. Wide Awake Press has launched Epidemic of Webcomics which will feature six comics.

Famed webcomic Penny Arcade and Cryptozoic are putting out their first periodical comic in the shape of THE LOOKOUTS, a six-issue miniseries by writer Ben McCool and artist Robb Mommaerts. Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik provides some alternative art such as that seen below. The comic will be available digitally starting next week and in print August 29th.

If you're a regular webcomic reader, you probably have a bunch of bookmarks that you hit daily. If you are a dabbler, you might want to explore a few more. Both types of readers might find the new Comic Rocket webcomic viewer a handy way to organize their reading matter. A browser-based platform that aims to be a kind of souped up feed for webcomics, you can mark your favorites and check them all with one click—although it's in beta, it's easy enough to navigate, We signed up three of our favorites in no time.

While we wait for the Supreme Court to decide....

J. Bone! J. Torres! Eric Orchard! Agnes Garbowska! All these cartoonists and more can be found at Saturday Morning Webtoons, an all ages comics portal. Among the strips featured:

This webcomics thing is heating up! Actually, what's heating up is that a new population of webcomics immigrants is moving to this new land and trying to learn the customs and shortcuts of the new society. And the natives—creators who came of age with the web as their native platform—are probably rolling their eyes and going on with business.

This isn't anything we haven't covered here before, but here's another take on the end of impulse shopping for comics, this time via Dean Haspiel. Haspiel covers the problem of shops that only order for pull lists, and suggests that there may be a substitute for impulse buying in webcomics. Linking to it also give us a chance to show this cute picture of Haspiel meeting Wallace and Gromit.

Mark Waid's been threatening to go digital for quite some time. He's also had a history of exploring options outside of DC and Marvel. Waid spent some time at Crossgen, launched his creator-owned Empire with Barry Kitson over at Image under the tragically short-lived Gorilla imprint, did Hunter/Killer with Marc Silvestri for Top Cow and spent some time as E-I-C at BOOM!, where he launch a few books with Irredeemable as his flagship title. Now he's finally combining those longstanding threats and his independent work with "Thrillbent."

We were just warming up to mention Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey Wells' new Kickstarter campaign for their webcomic SKIN HORSE....but it already achieved its goals in a mere 12 hours! But more money means more premiums, so consider pledging on.