The Comics Reporter has received surprising news from Jackie Estrada of the Eisner Awards. The esteemed awards ceremony is accepting submissions for a possible “Best Digital Comic” category. As unlikely as this sounds here is the criteria Tom received:

Any professionally produced long-form comics work posted online or distributed via other digital media is eligible. The majority of the work must have been published in 2004. Audio elements and animation can be part of the work but must be minimal. Continue reading →

With our ongoing coverage and prediction of a fall out once one person loses The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge has its first loser. Donald Noffsinger’s Demon Dorm Days has dropped out leaving only 55. Demon Dorm Days was a comic blog about Donald’s life in his dorm. The art work is simplistic but was beginning to show promise. Typically he used almost no words and he combined that with a short blurb following the strip explaining it to the readers.

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The syndicated strip Funky Winkerbean has been running a series of strips since March 6 about a comic book shop owner who gets arrested for selling an adult magazine to an adult. I’m always a fan of artists who create strips from headlines and this story line is starting off well. Censorship of comic books has been going on for a long time and is usually so common that we’ve grown numb to hearing about it. With the emergence of web comics and the decline of print there will be a point where those people with nothing better to do try to apply the same rules now on print to web content. Continue reading →

Earlier today Ikivo, a provider of mobile SVG tools, announced its marketing alliance with Adobe Systems Inc. The alliance is meant to create high-quality mobile content for mobile phones by combining Ikivo Animator together with Adobe Creative Suite to allow designing, testing, and distribute of compelling Mobile SVG content more easily and effectively. Quoted from the anoucement:

This new workflow enables designers and developers to prepare animated SVG Tiny graphics, such as comics, infotainment, location-based services, maps, financial services, and other graphics-centric services Continue reading →

There are few blogs that are more then just entertainment. As humble as Eric Burns is he has finally started realizing that his ‘little’ blog makes a difference. Beyond breathing life into little known comics or simply bringing well known ones back from the dead, such as Todd and Penguin, the word Websnark has been made an official english word by Wikipedia.

Over the past couple weeks certain online comics have been getting the attention they deserve. The gaming column of CBSNews.com, GameCore, has been running a series of amazingly impartial surveys about video game violence. What’s even more fantastic are two particular individuals who are part of the panel asked to comment. Tim Buckley of Ctrl+Alt+Del and Scott Ramsoomair of VG Cats were given 14 questions each and responded with intelligent and insightful answers. This is the sort of publicity the online comic community can’t get enough of.

Online comics are not just for the West anymore. Last month the Japan Foundation Forum hosted the “Asia in Comics 2005” symposium in Tokyo. At this two-day event Asian internet distributes discussed the spread of manga on the internet. In a short article on asahi.com there are incites which are always welcome with us:

As print magazines struggle with declining sales, serialized online comics are expanding.The pay is not that much, but you get great exposure from online publishing.

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First it was the Chicago Tribune and now the Miami Herald. When are newspapers going to figure out they don’t always know what’s best for their audience? The Herald, along with The Boston Globe and the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, will run substitute installments for strips implying the ‘N’ word by using some letters along with some asterisks. The most telling part are comments from Tom Fiedler, the Herald’s executive editor: “It’s our view that the strips and the language in the strips would be offensive to at least a portion of our readership and Continue reading →