We’re in the middle of the Convention season and the biggest one of them all is mere moments away. No matter how many other conventions come along to support webcomics this convention is still held as the pinnacle. San Diego is the one where all of comics show themselves despite upstarts in New York and at Wizard. It has the Eisner’s, Heroes, and Neil Gaiman. How can you resist?
| This is a good one although there was a bunch of agreement on most parts. Round table covers the whole DC webcomics thing that everyone is talking about.
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 Digital Strips Update July 9th 2007 [9.35 MB] |
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The great comic wheel has completed its revolution: Kodansha is publishing a Japanese version of vol. 1 of Megatokyo. I posted the press release in full at MangaBlog, and Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week has a story on it as well.
This is, of course, richly ironic, since Megatokyo is not only a thoroughly American comic, it is a comic about Japan as perceived by Americans. I can see the appeal, though. When I lived in France, I totally loved reading travel guides to the U.S. and earnest magazine articles that explained our peculiar customs. It’s always fun to see your culture refracted through the lens of someone else’s. I especially like the fact that Kodansha is adding special notes for Japanese readers, as I could have used some explanatory notes the first time I read the first volume.
DC is going into the webcomics business, and the site may provide an opportunity for creators with more talent than connections to break into the biz. The site is zuda.com, and there’s a placeholder up right now. Publisher’s Weekly has an overview, and ICv2 has more detail. Even the New York Times has picked up on the story (registration required).
The Times gets it right away, describing Zuda as “a virtual slush pile, accepting submissions from the public and paying for the best comics that come in.” Creators submit an eight-page sample, and every month, starting in October, DC Director of Creative Services Ron Perazza and Comics Online Editor Kwanza Johnson will choose 10 submissions for readers to vote on. Continue reading
 Prolific Web cartoonist and general nice guy Wes Molbash has been invited to be half of an exhibit at the Pump House Center for the Arts in Chillicothe Ohio called the Art of Cartooning. Any sort of publicity like this is awesome and I for one am proud of Molbash. The exhibit will be running from July 17th and run through August 25th and any one in the Ohio area should head out and support one of our own. You can get all the info and check out an invitation designed by Molbash over at You’ll have That.
| By this point we all understand what’s going on so let’s stick to the facts. BTW, don’t ever get sick when you’re on vacation, it really sucks all the vac out of vacation.
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Digital Strips Update July 1st 2007 [8.11 MB] |
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