I managed to scared up some news for Halloween. It’s not actually scary news though, don’t be afraid. Jeph Jaques, the man behind the popular, indie music comic Questionable Content, was interviewed by Chris Dahlen of pitchforkmedia.com. In the interview, posted Friday, Jaques talks about the role T-shirts and other merchandise have played in his being able to work full time on his comic. It’s a pretty interesting article that also talks about Jaques feelings toward the strip, his reasons for doing it and even hints at possible future projects. Check it out here. Speaking of webcomic merchandise, Krishna of PC Weenies reminded readers Continue reading →

Making enough money off webcomics to go it alone seems to be one of those elusive golden apples that very few people can reach. How to get people to come to your site and then throw money at you? There are 8000 webcomics out there and the playing field has quite a few heavy hitters, of course you could try to impress those guys in hopes they will direct traffic your way but that’s even harder then yelling out your window. There’s also Comixpedia and Websnark but you either get lost in the amount of news or there’s not enough time to find out how brilliant you are. Continue reading →

Beginning on October 23th, various Eyeskream members participated in the first Eyeskream Webcomic Swap Day. Each Eyeskream member who participated created a guest comic for another member but the catch is no one knew who was drawing their comic! Now you can go over to Eyeskream and “guess” who drew which comic for which artist. The ones who guess right can win a fabulous “commissioned drawing” by the participating artist of your choice. You have up until October 29th to submit your answers and the winner will be announce on Sunday October 30th.

It’s BLC Guest Week over at PVP as the Blank Label Comics guys keep PVP updated while Scott Kurtz is at Blizzcon. The Talk About Comics server will be down for a few hours late Sunday evening for a hardware upgrade. Weekend browsers, you have been warned. Girl-a-Matic is celebrating their 2nd annual ‘Gam-o-Ween’ from 10/25 – 10/31 — Fear and inanity have been implied. Daku used his Roguish ways to scoop me on the other news — that is all.

Addendum: Erica Gayler and Joe Dunn of Boxcar Comics have hijacked the Kenmore for two weeks.

Webcomic collectives, groups, whatever have been spawning quickly recently. We’ve spoken to several members about their various reasons for forming and goals they have set out for themselves. Today the official announcement that a new webcomic group was forming has been released to the public, The Ryans. It is a group made up of webcomic artists who’s first names are all Ryan. Seriously. Here is the official announcement from Ryan Estrada’s post to The Ryans blog (obviously, Mr. Estrada is one of the “Ryans”) : Continue reading →

Greg Dean of Real Life comics has made a change in his life, deciding to pursue a career in the culinary arts. According to an announcement on his site today, Dean is in the process getting things arranged to that he can attend classes at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. Dean has also offered a sketch, in the form of Christmas card, to any fan that helps him get the financial side of things organized by donated $25 or more. This is the first time I personally have seen him come out and ask for help with anything. Dean assures fans that he will still try to maintain his 5 times a week schedule.

Even though I didn’t want to rhyme drama with Yirmumah so soon again, that’s what DJ has on his hands. Apparently there were some, well let’s just call them complications, with his taking part in the Sketch Battles. The controversy has been covered pretty extensively on Comixpedia and, of course, Yirmumah. Basically, from what I’ve been able to gather, DJ Coffman was accused of cheating in his sketch battle. After some conflicts with, Sambro, an administrator at Sketchbattle, Coffman decided to simply stop competing. Later, Deemo, another admin, issued an apology for the confusion and trying to straighten things out. I’m not going to comment on who was right or wrong since I really don’t know. You guys can read and decide for yourselves.

Note: the reporter in me really wants to read things from Sketch Battle’s side of things but I can’t find anything. If anyone has a link, I’d like to check it out.

Yep, that ‘s my icon. I’m actually making a post and I would have made one sooner but our new guys are just too damn good at their job. I’m actually going to have to start hunting for stuff outside my daily trawl. The past two weeks have been an avalanche of web comic drama that crashed as quickly as it exploded. Fear not, there have been developments:

Jack Thompson – This guy symbolizes the reason I don’t like to be called Southern and why I’m not a lawyer. Gabe nailed it when he talked on how Jill is the best thing to happen to video games, Continue reading →

The sometimes controversial, but always prolific, webcomic workhorse and cartoonist behind Yirmumah, DJ Coffman, has started a new site dedicated to helping other cartoonists find a business model for their comic creations. DJ has been able to work his own webcomic into a money making venture and now he’s offering ongoing advice for everyone to try and follow in his footsteps or even exceed his own success. This sort of thing could turn into a great resource and is certainly a generous act Continue reading →