Transplant Comics – The first official Coloring Contest Transplant has ever had is now underway. Here is the artwork we will be using. Any medium is acceptable, and some modification of the art is acceptable- such as painting over the lines or whatever. Winner will be given a free Transplant Comics T-shirt! Deadline to be announced, with Steve Downer and Steve Vourdrie judging.
Head Injury Theater – One of our favorite new artists was given quite a surprise the other day. Continue reading
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You had to know this was coming. Zampzon hops on the mic for his farewell to you. After a year and 3 months of bringing you his quick repartee Zampzon is moving on to his own projects. The two of us take a stroll down memory lane as we remember the year that was.The line from Anchorman in the beginning was Zampzon’s idea. |
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More News! I bet you almost forgot we have news here. Yet the inbox continues to tell me otherwise. What do have for you but some movers and shakers.
Heroes of World of Warcraft – A comic we reviewed on our podcast is moving to a new site. You can find the front page (site still under construction) which promises to deliver more of this German strip translated. Also look for the strip to go to print, if you read German that is.
The following rant was meant for the Comments area of Daku’s post about the strip, Doctor Fun. Simply put, it got away from me. BIG TIME. So I have cut and pasted the glorified goodness to my column for you to peruse. If you’re not an artist, please excuse the loaded question in the conclusion. Enjoy.
William G’s first comment on the matter of whether or not it’s ethical or right to leave no reason for ceasing updates on a webcomic seems like more of a personal statement than anything concrete or steadfast. Many would argue that there comes a point, regarding traffic numbers, fan participation, or mainstream penetration, Continue reading
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That’s it, I give up on having shows less then 30 minutes. You won’t believe but I cut over ten minutes from this one. Along with the review we also have a couple of audio ads and talk about our up and coming pressence at ConnectiCon. If you thought Phil and I agreed to much then you should listen to this show.In this episode we talk about:
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At what point is it ok to call it quits? The argument I hear most often is when real life intrudes or the artist no longer enjoys writing the strip. What if you made a promise to your readers on some ridiculous scale and you actually achieved it? The last one is where the first strip on the Web steps in. On September 24, 1993 David Farley started what may not have been the first strip on the internet in Doctor Fun, but does qualify as the first on the World Wide Web.
So, I spent the weekend at the glorious M.O.C.C.A. Festival in New York City at the Puck Building and, before I commence my paltry epilogue, I feel I should tell you that I didn’t get much sleep, I drank an heroic amount, and I had a table to schill my own wares from my other job.
That said, I was very happy to see that there were so many more webcomicers than last year. As a fan of all types of comics, I was also happy to see some of the non-webcomicers, but I’m not allowed to talk about that or Daku will put me in the dark place again.
It’s really dark there.
Before we start, go take a look at these three webcomics: Penny Arcade, VG Cats, and PvP. Ok, now, to borrow from the classic Sesame Street guessing game, one of these things is not like the other one; can you guess which one?
Give up? While all these sites are host to very successful, critically acclaimed webcomics, only one of them opens with the strip itself. Now with strips like these, this can work; all 3 have been around long enough to survive regardless of what appears on the home page. In the case of Penny Arcade, Jerry and Mike could run with the first photographic evidence of Michael Jackson actually touching a young boy for the rest of their tenure on the Internet and their traffic would not only remain the highest of any webcomic ever, it would probably double.
As I’ve made my way across China, I’ve been reading Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, both by Orson Scott Card. If you haven’t read these books, I highly recommend them both, especially because you won’t understand a lot of what I’m talking about. It turns out that there’s a movie in the works. I thought about that for a while and I’ve decided that Ender’s Game was not made for the big screen. The book depends too much on the Battle Room, which would be hard to replicate, and a lot of the best dialogue takes place in characters’ heads. None of these are contusive to a good film.
I’m a fan of the F-word. BIG fan. I love it almost as much as I love the S-word. I also like lewd and/or tasteless humor as well as horrific violence. Thankfully there is no shortage of any of these things in our beloved uncensored land of web-comics, but what about the people who don’t like bad language, naked parts, or bloody decapitations? And what about the little kids whose parents have blocked all of those things? The Internet has comics for them too.
I am of course referring to the family friendly comics of: Acorn Place, On the Rocks, Ugly Hill, and many more I have failed to mention here. Continue reading
