You can check out a pretty interesting web comic all done is 3D computer modelling at Syntax Error. Damon Riesberg works at Dreamworks and has credit in Shrek 2. His strip is created using Alias Wavefront and is updated 3 times a week. A very new look to comic strips.
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The Texas Star-Telegram wrote up a piece by David House that any new or potential comic strip creators should be warned about. This essay seems to suggest that the newspaper industry alone is responsible for all comic readership. House pats the paper on the back for doing so well at finding such a “diverse readership” he also goes on to explain their survey process by which they decide which comic strips stay and which get cut.
You can get a pretty cool service over at Komik Werks. For a small fee you can have some exclusive comic content personally selected by comic legend Stan Lee sent to you on a weekly basis. The most recent stuff is available for free, but having it sent to you and viewing archives require a subscription. Some really cool stuff here.
Last week Zampzon gave a review on You’ll Have That and received our first comment to the blog. Another strip called Martin’s Misdirection was mentioned and I jumped, as in I read it the next day but took a week to write this, on the chance to review someone’s recommendation. This is a strip from James Burks who has many high profile experiences under his belt. Upon first look I thought the strip was too detailed in it’s sketching but then I realized all the details were in my head. James is so good in his simplicity that he is able to suggest a whole world in a single frame.
Sheldon by Dave Kellett is one of my personal favorites. The story centers on a young boy genius who runs his own multi-national corporation while still trying hard to have a normal childhood. He lives with his Grandfather and a talking duck, the result of one of Sheldon’s brilliant experiments. Sarcasm apparently came with the power of speech.
The writing is very clever and I really like the line work in the strip. While clearly inspired by classic newspaper strip styles, Continue reading
A few years ago when I first started reading digital strips there were some obvious strips I was going to read first. One of these is Diesel Sweeties. Now I’ve never been a fan of pixel comics but Richard Stevens has done an excellent job creating both his characters and the different plots. As anyone who has visited other pixilated strips has notice most have taken old 8-bit game characters and posed them together and simply acted out play or the games the characters were created for. Such techniques do allow for fast production and instant character development but Continue reading
Creating comics for the web opens artists and writers up to new possible formats for their work. An interesting trend in web comics is the journal comic. Artists are posting comics based on events that actually happen to them or that they observe in real life on a regular schedule, much like a blog in comic form.
The Journal Comic Jam has a large collection of links to these types of comics and you’ll find a wide range of comics there. Continue reading
I was very upset when I found my favorite strip had gone on hiatus. I paid Overcaffeinated many visits and found every single strip to be hilarious. It always helps if every strip seems to have been written from your own experiences but if I ever get around to making my own strip I hope I can tell jokes as well this. The creator’s name is Sergio I. Villarreal Pou and he is currently using the site for a blog, although he keeps his old strip up for your perusal. As Sergio became overloaded at work he stopped updating his comic but did manage to write Continue reading
I don’t know when it happened but at some point I started to love political cartoons. Of course at first I liked them merely because they had really famous people looking silly. With the printed strip dying off one of the unfortunate side-affects has been the decline in quality of these social commentaries. Here’s the web is providing an outlet. There are cartoonists like Bill Mitchell who have gone completely digital and AWOL from the printed world and has been publishing online since 1995.