Brian Hart’s Disassemblance, a most excellent webcomic with 3 years of archives under its belt, some great web-utilizing peripherals, great character design, and which consistently “brings the funny” (or alternatively the story or ‘point’) is going to be in print. the Free Press, the University of Southern Maine’s school paper, will be picking it up in what Brian refers to as “the future.” A magical place, by all accounts.
What do you do if you have too much time and passion? You launch a new web comic. Steve Napierski, creator of The Outer Circle, has picked entered the gaming web comic genre with his new strip Dueling Analogs. It comes with a brand spanking new site and style. Immediately you notice the use of a hand held device as the display for the strip along with a manual at the bottom with button instructions and a news section where the manual text would be. Such a simple layout is both pleasing and refreshing.
Fans of the extremely popular, genre-redefining, syndicated strip Calvin and Hobbes should take a moment today to reread some of the strips. Today marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Watterson?s first appearance in the funny pages.
Zach Miller of Joe and Monkey posted a tribute to the strip that has inspired so many others. If there are any other web comic artists who did Calvin themed strips today, that I missed, post them in the comments, I?d love to read them.
This week’s comic continues a little story-line I’m toying with. I’m pretty happy with how that first panel background came out. It may have been a joke, but don’t think I haven’t thought about organizing an official worshiper’s group to follow Beaver and Steve.
Joey Manley is writing a webcomics column for the pulse. Check it out. Had I not taken my shoes off before reading, my socks would have been blown right through them.
Hark, the Geek speaks.
Three more webcomics have found their way into publishedness. Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing a series of full color trade paperbacks featuring the popular manga-based comics Earthsong, Inverloch and Chugworth Academy.
According to the announcement made Monday, the series should begin to appear in bookstores about halfway into next year. Seven Seas a newer company but is already making a name for itself. You can read more about the company and the announcement here.
A new collective is storming the interweb and they call themselves Playground Ghosts. Steve Hogan, Colleen AF Venable, Chris Dlugosz, Chris Yates, and David Malki have decided, collectively, that the internet didn’t have enough awesome and so Playground Ghosts was formed.
I regularly read Chris, Colleen, and David’s comics. I do not read Steve or Chris Dlugosz’s, but if Yates, Venable, & Malki are associating with them on purpose and loudly, I’m certainly going to start.
the Playground Ghosts are–
Fluff in Brooklyn (Colleen AF Venable)
01comics.com is an independent digital publisher, offering creator-owned comic books in multiple formats including webcomics, high resolution downloadable comics, and print-on-demand. They sent us this press release to let everyone know about some new additions to their stable of comics.
From the press release: “November 14, 2005 – 01Comics.com is pleased to announce the addition of several new webcomics to the 01Comics.com lineup. 01Comics.com is growing by leaps and bounds, Continue reading
Congratulations and what the kids are calling ‘Mad Props’ to Eric Burns and Greg Holkan for their Centennial Strip together on Gossamer Commons.
Also, if you go to websnark, which is Eric’s website, you can read all about anything I might have posted here. Why? Because Eric is that good…
I will do a quick bulletin list, though, because we like bullets at Digital Strips, even though I don’t think Zampzon Continue reading
I recently had the honor to collaborate on a comic project with Ryan Estrada, a cartoonist whose work I admire very much. We did a joint comic for this month’s edition of Comixpedia and you can check it out here.
As many of you know, Welton is Ryan’s retired cartoonist character and all around old coot when it comes to webcomics. For this strip, I wrote the Zampzon and Daku dialog and Ryan wrote Welton’s responses. Then he drew the Digital Strips panels and I drew the Welton panels. Continue reading