The following is a press release from Komikwerks: “Today, Stan Lee’s Sunday Comics, an imprint of Komikwerks (www.komikwerks.com) announces another addition to its growing stable of free, professional quality online comics: LIFELIKE, a slice-of-reality webcomic by creator and writer Dara Naraghi and a rotating cast of artists.”
LIFELIKE will update on Tuesdays and Thursdays for AOL users, and a day later for the rest of the world.
The off beat photo-based comic Alien Loves predator has reached it’s first anniversary of updating to the web. Bernie Hou’s comic depicts the movie characters “Alien” and “Predator” as roommates living in a Manhattan apartment together. With it’s clever use of action figure posing and photo manipulation ALP has been witty, fresh, and funny for a year now. To celebrate Bernie is announcing a new contest.
The historic first 24-hour comic for hire was auctioned last week with the winning bid going to Kasra Ghanbari of Vei Studios, who is working on a project about the Jack Kirby character Modok. It is events such as this that convince me there must be some method to the madness that is Ryan Estrada. After receiving so many bids Ryan decided to sell 12-hour comics to friends for $50 bucks leading into the creation of this little gem of a comic featuring giant robots.
It would appear that our little round-up was right on the tail of a new collective popping up on the radar. A week ago we saw a new subscription based site appear to compete with Modern Tales. PixelStrips.com is a new community from Kevin Volo featuring horror, sci-fi, superhero, and manga web comics. Most of the comics update weekly with new comics to be added in the coming months. The current cost is $3.95 per month or as low as $34.95 per year, but this is at least a dollar more per month then it’s most popular competitor.
The popular web comic Yirmumah by Coffman and McDeavitt from now on will be just by Coffman.
D.J. Coffman announced today to the whole of the Internet that his partner Bob McDeavitt will be leaving the strip. The announcement, which came in both post and comic form, was made over the weekend to members of the web site.
Coffman also wanted to assure his readers while he will be taking soul responsibility for the writing of the strip, Continue reading
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This week we feature a round table discussion on the growing trend of web comic communities, or web comic collectives. Independent cartoonists are banding together into their own tight knit communities for cross promotion and resource sharing. In this show we talk to 3 representatives from different collectives, Transplant Comics, Boxcar Comics, and the Eyeskream Webcomic Creators Group, to get their perspectives on the subject.This week we talk with :
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Today’s comic is about the benefits of Zoinks Magazine. I actually used this joke during the interview we did with Bill Charbonneau, the editor of the webcomics newspaper, and now that I have the actual newspaper in my hands I still think it’s funny.
The popular female oriented web comic collective GirlAMatic is going through a rebirth. They have recently announced a new line-up of comics and a new editor is taking the lead. As of October 1st Lisa R. Jont? is taking the reigns.
Here is a quote from the press release from Lisa: “After two and half years, Lea Hernandez, the originator, Founding Editor and driving force behind GirlAMatic has decided to step down. It?s been a long and successful run, but it seems she felt it was time to shake things up and, at the same time, find more time to actually make comics herself. I would not deny her”
Why is it that I find most articles like this in University newspapers? A couple weeks ago there was a nice little article in The Eagle about how newspapers are going stale and online comics are just waiting in the batter’s box to take over. The article takes the perspective on who everything will eventually be digital so the natural progression of the funny pages will be the web comic. What makes this article stand out is Jeff Lambert appears to have done his homework and contacted a few of his favorite creators: Nicholas Gurewitch of Perry Bible Fellowship, Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, and Joey Comeau of A Softer World.
Two members of the popular web comic collective Dayfree Press have jumped ship and joined with another popular web comic collective. Nothing Nice to Say by Mitch Clem and Theatre Hopper by Tom Brazelton join the ranks of Boxcar.
Here is the announcement on the Boxcar site: “We here at Boxcar welcome two new members today by adding Nothing Nice To Say and Theater Hopper to our roster. The addition of these new members provides an extra punch to our already fantastic line-up, which features some of the best comics on the internet.” Continue reading