Everyone has to aware of this by now but if not John Allison has picked up the pencil in exchange of the mouse for creating his comic. The acclaimed winner of the 2005 WCCA Best Comic has long been famous for creating a strip that is 100% computer generated while never using a scanner. After running for over 4 years that has all changed. For that past couple of weeks John has been drawing everything by hand and there doesn’t seem to be enough people who have taken noticed.
When DS first launched we had some pretty strong opinions about where the print industry is taking comics and how web comics should simply take over. Since then we’ve mellowed and learned it’s just a little more complicated and there’s reasoning, although flawed, behind syndicates keeping the same old strips around. How would the world change if the print industry were repaired and their misconceptions throttled into the 1950’s where they belong? First they could listen to readers such as Bob Mackey who wrote a rather scathing article concerning the state of comics.
Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day (www.talklikeapirate.com) and what great timing. We just so happen to have the perfect way for you to celebrate. We have a list of over 300 web comics that talk about pirates. So, while you are “Aarg-ing” and “Avast-ing” around your places of business all day enjoy a long list of web comics to help celebrate this special holiday.
Here is this week’s comic. I know it’s a little wordy this time around, but this comic is a little cathartic for me. Before I get 50 emails from people all claiming that I’m making fun of them in the strip just know that this scenario has played itself out many times since we’ve started doing what we do.
When you send us an email asking for a review of your strip you have to be prepared to take the bad with the good. I’m sure everyone who writes reviews runs into this eventually. Continue reading
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The Webcomic Telethon Wrap-up. This week we discuss the Web Comic Telethon. We talk about some of our favorites and conduct an interview with Brad Guigar, cartoonist behind Greystone Inn, founding member of Blank Label Comics, and the charity event organizer.This week we talk about :
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Last month the two-day symposium “Asia in Comics 2005” took place in Akasaka, Tokyo. This convention might be considered the ComicCon of Asia but it would be more accurate to picture it as a gathering of Asian companies to discuss comics. Once again one of the major topics was taking comics online. Apparently a good example is Pape Popo by Shim Seung Hyun which is described by him as
The first [Asian] comic you read by scrolling down the page with your mouse, which is very different from opening a book and turning pages
Ok, I take back all my bad thoughts about Lulu.com. If you recall, the recent 168 Hour Comic event staged by modern day troubadour Ryan Estrada resulted in a big publishing mess when Ryan tried to put the project, Ped X-Ing, into book form using Lulu. We wrote a story about the whole thing last month.
Yesterday I received an email from Lulu and I’m sure everyone else who tried to buy Ryan’s book when it first went online got a similar message. Continue reading
As you all know the Webcomic Telethon has been running for the past two days, updating the site every 20 minutes with new comics donated from cartoonists across the web and asking people to donate to the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina relief effort. According to Brad Guigar, telethon organizer and patron saint of web comics, the response has been so big and so positive the telethon has been extended by at least a day. Over $26,00.00 has been raised so far making this whole effort a resounding success. Continue reading
This is a bonus episode of Digital Strips in which we give an update of the Webcomics Telethon. Also on the podcast were special guests Phil Kahn (I’m Just Saying), Ryan Estrada (ryanestrada.com), and a quick phone call to Brad Guigar (greystoneinn.net) the main guy responsible for the telethon along with everyone at Blank Label Comics. With over 300 comics donated by cartoonists across the globe and already over $20,000.00 raised (as of the time of this writing) this is turning into a milestone event in web comics.
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We received a press release from Komikwerks and Grounded Angel about a contest they are starting up. If you’re a fan you’ll definitely want to check this out. Here is the full press release:
“Today, Grounded Angel, a twice-weekly web manga at Stan Lee’s Sunday Comics, an imprint of Komikwerks (www.komikwerks.com), announces a name-the-character contest! The winner will receive a free sketch of the character from Indonesian artist Vivi Erlanita, Continue reading