the Webcomics Examiner, bastion of incisive commentary and, dare I say, examination is changing its format from quarterly to weekly… Joe Zabel says so and I believe him.
Propinquitous to the format change are new features arriving in a quantity best described as “multifarious,” including a site search engine, a comments section, and archive indexing.
New format by that cockroach guy.
I meant to post this yesterday when the strip was up but no such luck.
Many times I’ve heard webcomics referred to as a writer’s medium. Even though there are strips out there like PX, Alpha Shade and countless others that have absolutely amazing, beautiful artwork, to me its the writing that brings me back. Of course good writing and artwork do often appear in the same strip. Don’t think that I’m saying anything otherwise.
This being said yesterday two of my favorite writing-only strips were merged together for the second time in a few days. Continue reading
 Digital Strips : Show 55 [6.3 MB] |
We get started with the new, more focused show format with our review of online comic Stuff Sucks. By the way, this show would have been online last night if it wasn’t for the massive deluge of software updates from Apple that wiped out a lot of my settings. Grrr.In this episode we talk about:
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I have a bit of a confession to make. Despite being known world wide as The Geek, Ive never played a game of Dungeons and Dragons.
Regardless, several of my favorite webcomics are heavily based in the world of D&D and other pen and paper tabletop role-playing games. I really enjoy strips such as Order of the Stick, Commissioned and Dork Tower even though a lot of their jokes refer to the worlds of these games. This is largely because these strips also rely heavily on characterization, epic storylines and other non-gaming themes that keep me interested. Each of these strips have qualities that make them outstanding outside of the realm of niche strips.
If you can remember way back to last summer you can recall a podcast where we interviewed the guys from LICD. They hinted there were big works coming down the pipeline. At first I knew it was the new artist Lar DeSouza and that was big. Then there was big news from Blind Ferret of the CAD animations. But nooooo! The big news has finally arrived in the form of LICD going animated. You’re thinking it’s pretty obvious they would do this considering they are helping produce CAD and the debut of blamimation but they decide to one up everyone.
This week Brian Hart celebrates three years of his comic, Disassemlance, being online. Unfortunately, a personal computer crash coincides with the milestone and the last couple of comic posts haven’t quite been up to the usual high quality. But, three years in the webcomic world is still an accomplishment worth noting. Congrats Brian! You are now a level 3 Webcomic Cartoonist. You will get a +2 Pen of Inking for your troubles.
Webcomic cartoonist and all around adventurer Ryan Estrada is about to launch a new project in association with LiveJournal.com, the online blogging service. Ryan will be writing and drawing the weekly comic about Frank, the Live Journal goat mascot. Here’s a snippet from the press release:
“Cartoonist Ryan Estrada and Livejournal have teamed up to bring you ‘Frank: The Comic Strip’, coming Wednesday, January 18th to Livejournal.com. This new weekly comic series follows the online life of pseudo cyber-celebrity mascot Frank the Goat. Upcoming storylines include the country-western ditty ‘Ballad’, the romantic comedy ‘Meme’, and a horror story called ‘The Tag’.
I hate iPods.
I hate them, because I don’t have one.
But for those of you out there who do own the new video iPods, there is a new way to use your device to make people like me jealous.
Clickwheel is a new service that was just recently made available that lets users download webcomics and take them with them wherever they go.
Since most webcomics’ web sites we come across also include a blog from the creators I thought this might be of interest to our readers. Thanks to Stuart for forwarding this along to us.
Press release for Weblog Awards: “You can now submit your nominations for the 2006 Bloggies (http://2006.bloggies.com). The finalists will be announced on Friday, January 20 when voting will begin.
Digital Strips : Show 54 [5.3 MB] |
Zampzon returns from holiday vacation and he brings with him some changes to the show. In this episode we announce our newer, more streamlined way of making Digital Strips. We also review and discuss Blamimation, the effort between Scott Kurtz and Chris Straub to bring something new and interesting to webcomics.In this episode we talk about:
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