Ok folks, this is it. Only a few more hours to go before it’ll be too late. The Web Comics Scavenger Hunt for the month of August is coming to an end as of midnight tonight (PST). Get us your list of links to Pirate related comics to enter. The person with the most valid links will win an Alpha Shade graphic novel. Get all the details here and good luck! We’ll be announcing the next subject of the scavenger hunt for the month of September later this week.
PAX 2005, the Penny Arcade multi genre convention, has finished up and closed it’s doors. CmdrTaco, the head contributor to geek news source SlashDot, was on hand to report on the event.
Here is an excerpt from his report: “For me the highlight of the weekend was the ‘Make Monday’s Strip’ panel where the process of actually creating a single Penny Arcade comic was put up on a giant screen for thousands of fans to watch in amazement. Continue reading
This post is a reminder that the Web Comic Scavenger Hunt for the month of August is coming to a close soon. You have until midnight August 31 (3 days from now) to get a list of links to web comics having to do with pirates. The person that sends us the longest single list of links to pirates related comics will win an Alpha Shade graphic novel. These books are gorgeous and awesome. If you haven’t seen this web comic yet trust me, the book is well worth the effort of entering the contest.
As most people reading web comic related sites know, adventuring cartoonist Ryan Estrada recently completed the monumental task of drawing a 168 hour comic. After much fanfare and encouragement Ryan emerged from his trailer with a mountain of comic pages created over the course of one week. He promptly self published the entire enterprise using Lulu.com, a print to order online book publisher. Ryan posted a link to the online store and began telling everyone about Lulu and directing people to purchase his book there.
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This week we talk about the recently announced free web comic ads we are asking people to send us. We also play an audio letter sent to us by Colin Wales, web cartoonist behind Nixon, and it sparks further debate over Manga between Zampzon and Daku. This week’s feature is an interview we conducted with the guys from Comedity we recorded during ConnectiCon.This week we talk about :
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As we’ve discussed before on the site and on the show Daku and I have been thinking about adding audio ads to the Digital Strips podcast. After announcing the idea and asking people to let us know if they’d be interested in such a thing we got a lot of positive feedback about adding web comic audio ads. Several of you want to take part.
However, audio ads are a controversial topic within podcasting circles. Many think this sort of thing detracts from Continue reading
The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is open this weekend and those who are lucky enough to get in are enjoying a weekend jam packed with geek culture. Games, both video and table top based, are being played, comics are being discussed, and videos are being watched.
The gaming news site GameSpot recently interviewed Penny Arcade’s Robert Khoo who is responsible for the business dealings around all things PA. Continue reading
I’m sort of sneaking this one up there by updating outside the normal show posting schedule. This comic is mostly a self indulgence. I’ve been watching my Thundercats season 1 DVD set and I just had to find a way to work it into the strip. Take note that I did draw the logo myself, but I totally cheated on the wording. I found a font online and used that. Any way, here it is: Continue reading
Someone was bound to chase after Ryan North after all the times he has been in the press. Ryan is the acclaimed creator of Dinosaur Comics which was nominated for 3 WCC Awards this year in addition to winning the Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic Award. In a recent announcement Dayfree Press released that Ryan was filling in the recently vacated spot from BOASAS. On August 14 Steven Cloud took Boy on a Stick and Slither with him to Dumbrella as the first addition to the collective in over three years.
We all like web comics that entertain but an art form can never mature until it does more then make you laugh. Editorials and opinion strips are an excellent example of strips which have elevated syndicates to the respected position in newspapers they currently have. This is where strips such as Genesis 2 steps in. In this strip we have Dan Beeston tackling the previously non-controversial but currently hot topic of Intelligent Design. From Dan:
Genesis 2 … is an explanation of evolution in an approachable form. My goal is to do more with the medium than simply entertain. I’m always trying to push it further and further.