Talk About Comics – Joey Manley has a nice little write up of Scott McCloud’s book Reinventing Comics. This is a response to the recent drama over the viability of webcomics as a medium. Manley makes several good points concerning how the same old topics are being debated (infinite canvas, micropayments, etc.) even though it’s been 5-8 years since Reinventing Comics was published and how the target audience for the book was to bring comic readers to the web.

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With all the love expressed by the recent NY Times article it’s nice to find that there are people writing articles on the subject who actually read the material. Two days ago Ryan Nyburg wrote a rather pleasant article in the Oregon Daily Emerald about comics on the internet being a GOOD idea. He points out the decline of syndicated comics in your Sunday paper and how “every time I open up to the comics page I get the nagging feeling I a?m reading something written for 5-year-olds.”

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In a twist, that’s more ironic when considering the name of the strip, Dan Piraro has submitted two different versions of his strip Bizarro to newspapers. The original version of the strip had an unsettling comment directed at government views on gay marriage. In the strip a doctor is talking to a man outside a delivery room and is telling him:

Your husband is in the recovery room. You could go back and see him if you like, but our government-sanctioned bigotry forbids it.

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It was only a matter of time before such a group was created. In Savage Disassembly what we have is a peer review community for and by comic writers and artists for the purpose of helping the web comic community. Despite the overwhelming number of web comics one must first realize just how few respected and successful comics there are in comparison. You can of course try to find one of the many review sites and live journal critiques but both have their pitfalls as the sheer number of web comics can prevent the few critiques from making comments. Continue reading →

We said he was crazy for attempting 168 hours of straight comic writing but then it turns out that being named Ryan implies that you’re crazy. Enter Ryan Armand, who completed his own 168 page comic in less then 168 hours. Any more Ryans out there? Estrada attempted the 168 page marathon to hold a record and there was no way he was just going to give up. So instead of the 168 hour comic we are getting the 336 hour comic fortnight.

The conclusion? Ryan Estrada is going to make it 300 hours before he realizes he’s forgotten how to do anything except stay up and create comics. He’s simply never going to stop.

Now they’ve gone and done it. We met these guys at ConnectiCon and we were completely impressed by their whole operation. So much so that we grabbed an interview with Ryan, Chad, and Randy and asked them question after question. Of course I won’t forget the panel these guys gave at the end of the day Friday which went on for 2 hours, an hour over their scheduled time. You wouldn’t believe the topics covered, well if you read the strip you just might.

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With the continued rise of web comics as a true medium one can’t help but poke fun at the print world, but even we have to admit there is good out there.

The Good – On Aug 4th Ted Rall posted a shocking strip concerning how there have actually been 9,000 deaths as a result of the Iraq war.

More Good – The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. is actually seeking the opinions of its readers by running samples of 13 strips that Continue reading →

Washington Webtoonist Meetup – How often have you met on actual webtoonist? There are thousands of them out there but very few take time out of each month to get together and brain storm. That’s where the Washington Webtoonist Meetup steps in. This month saw Chris, Phil, Jamie, Rob, Joey & Joe, T, and Xerexes get together at the Ballston Common Mall.

Online Comics Vs. Printed – There’s a new book on webcomics as a business. Huh? That’s right, Todd Allen has followed up his first paper, Comics on the Internet: A Business Primer, Continue reading →