No other reason for this post other than to mention a recent interview at CBR with… well, the post title says the rest. Â It’s also a great reason to post some fabulous DC artwork. Â
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(Beauty below provided by Aaron Diaz)
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*sigh* So dreamy. Â Go read if you’re still interested in the origins of the strip and just what makes Diaz tick like a fine, Swiss watch.
Flipping through my printed volume of Octopus Pie, it’s easy to see this is not a work that exists on the Web for any purpose other than distribution. It’s static, black and white, and though pretty to look at, doesn’t do a whole lot on the vibrant setting of my browser window.
Not until this recent strip, that is.
Unfortunately, Gary Tyrrell already said it best:
I could leave this running all day long
Click strip for the point of this post
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It’s time to spend another volume’s worth of sharp, biting, voracious comedy with Brinkerhoff and the entire gang! Brinkerhoff: Pocket Full of Brink: Vol. 2 is now available for purchase at Lulu.com.
This is the best way to get in on the funny if you still haven’t checked out the 
hilarious antics of Brink, Karen, Hank, Brink’s mom… Mom, Mark, and many others that I’m sure will be updated on the cast page soon! And even if you have, who doesn’t like owning things they’ve read online? The sense of entitlement is worth the purchase price alone!
Here’s a few words from Brink creator, Gabe Strine, about the second collection:
Watch as Brinkerhoff faces speed dating, coping with the death of a coworker, losing out on love to the messiah, and more in a conveniently-sized collection of caliginous comedy.
And here’s even more!
Is workplace harassment, a bar fight, jail time, and divorce enough to keep a good rabbit down? Apparently not, but there’s more where that came from as our boy Brinkerhoff continues to try to get his life back on track. This collection features comics #101-200 of the comic strip originally published at www.brinkcomic.com.
Go own one today!
It might be the larger-than-usual amount in my PayPal account, but it seems that there are a lot of webcomic books coming out these days. Every day, my Inbox is filled with more reminders of yet another printed edition coming out, and unfortunately, most of them are already my Favorites.
I have neglected K.C. Green’s Horribleville for too long. For whatever reason, it resides at the bottom of my Favorites sidebar and so I regularly forget to check it. Could be because it doesn’t update as regularly as others, but whatever.
My point is that, when I do check it, it is chock full of WIN. InterWin. As an example, check out the current strip, of which I’ve posted the most… intriguing panel of below: (NSFW, if you’re offended by back-nudity)
You know, if this was like a traditional publishing venture and our Editor-In-Chief was actually paid more 
than us lowly bloggers, I would have to stage a coup. After all, when talking about webcomics, you’d like your leader to know more than you about the subject.
So Brigid, fearless leader, this post is for you.
In the vein of clip art funnies like Wondermark and Dinosaur Comics, today we find PartiallyClips, by Robert T. Balder. Like the other clip art-based webcomics out there, Clips is done entirely with artwork that he himself had no hand in creating. Don’t believe me? Ask Balder:
I write PartiallyClips and I put it together graphically, but I do not draw it. I use royalty-free clip art, and you will quickly notice that the same piece of art is used without modification in each of the three frames. I sometimes get compliments on my art, and I never know how to respond. One guy even invited me to illustrate his book…on stupidity.
I just popped in to check on Tokyopop’s Manga Pilots, which caused an uproar in the blogosphere a few months ago. Despite all the arguing, nobody really seemed to read the comics, and I wanted to do that, so I took a look at a few. When I got to The God Shop, I noticed something interesting: The creators must think this is Zuda, because they have a blog of their own and are promoting the comic on it. They even have a link to the comic, which is good because there is no indication on the Tokyopop home page that the Manga Pilots even exist. Anyway, on this standard Tokyopop page you get the same web interface that has been there from the beginning: Click on the cover image and Tokyopop’s manga viewer, which is not bad but a bit small for my eyes, opens up in a separate window.
But Tokyopop has been looking to improve their website, and it turns out the webcomic interface in their beta version is a lot different. Take a look at The God Shop here. Does that remind you of anything? Hmmm?
That beta site still needs help; it has way too many scroll bars, for one thing. But my biggest criticism would be the webcomic itself, which is too small to be legible when it is embedded in the page. Problem is, their “full screen” version isn’t really full-screen—it’s the same size as their existing manga viewer, just set on a black background that fills the rest of the screen.
I would say more tinkering is in order.
Months ago, Steve (The Geek) and I came across Rice Boy, and we instantly entranced by its subtle beauty 
and epic adventureness. The full-color tale about a chosen boy who might someday bring balance to the universe is certainly not fresh by any stretch of the imagination, yet Evan Dahm, the strip’s creator, was somehow able to make it just that.
Now, with Rice Boy having wrapped up, Dahm brings us Order of Tales, a new tale set in the same world of Overside and though the use of black and white instead of color is jarring after having enjoyed the pop-off-the-page work in Rice Boy, I’ll be along for the ride to hear yet another story set in this fantastic place.
You should do the same, and also check out the Rice Boy collected edition, which has 468 pages of Oversidey goodness, including the entire Rice Boy story, a map of the world, and other little tidbits to answer all of your Overworld questions.
Maybe I missed my calling as a travel agent?