Nothing lasts for ever. Nothing gold can stay. Sooner or later, everything comes to an end. Matt Boyd and Ian McConville seem to have decided to step away from Mac Hall, much to the disappointment of many readers and other comic creators who site Mac Hall as one of their major influences.
Today's strip, what may well be the final installment of Mac Hall was a perfect bittersweet ending. Continue reading
I'm in college. I'm married. In short, I'm poor. That's a big thing that got me into web comics in the first place, the price. Now I stay for the awesome but you'll never hear me complain that web comics don't cost enough.
But there's a group of people out there who are helping promote web comics along with many other forms of free entertainment and culture. However, they do it out of moral conviction rather that just being cheap losers like me.
There are two things in my life that I know that I fully understand. 1) Pudding is delicious 2) I don't understand women.
Fortunately there's Girlamatic, an off shoot of Modern Tales focusing on comics for young women, which if I weren't such a raging ball of manly testosterone, I would read for peeks into the psyche of the fairer sex.
Ah Fall, the air is getting colder, kids are heading back to school and everything is dieing all around us. One good thing about autumn time though, is new entertainment schedules both on TV and on the Web.
Earlier this month Modern Tales got a new editor, Shaenon K. Garrity, who quickly opened Modern Tales up for new submissions. Nine new strips have been added to Comics Lounge Section which is free so it can be enjoyed by any and all cheapskates out there, such as myself.
After going around the board a few times as the little Scottie dog, Boxcar Comics seems to have a bit of a monopoly on their hands. With a little reshuffling and recruiting, Boxcar in now home to three of the biggest movie comics on the Web.
Multiplex, by Gordon McAlpin, has joined up? with Theater Hopper and the rest of the Boxcar collective, bringing the number of total strips to 15. This is especially good for me because they all line up in 3 rows of 5 silence my need to rearrange them when they had 2 rows of 5 and one of 4. Continue reading
I have a confession, after studying Chinese culture for 5 years, I still don't know what kung fu action grip is. I just know that I want it.
If such a legendary grip does exist in the world of web comics, I think we may have found it. Justin Gibbs has come up with a new way for web comics' creators to pimp their wares and fans to find new strips to get their fix off of, KungFuGrip.com. The site uses the tried and true Digg.com method of letting people vote (or Grip, as it's called at KungFuGrip) entries that they like. The more Grips an entry gets the better spot it gets on the site. Continue reading
Evolution is a big topic these days. Some people are really upset at evolution. I used to be upset about it too. I figured if there were no evolution we would all still be hanging out naked in the jungle. Then I realized that evolution also gave us waterslides, so it sort of evens out.
This Little Gamers strip from a few days ago got me thinking about evolution in web comics. It is a key thing that critics look for in a strip. We like to see the strip grown from what it was into what it is and to continue to become what it should be.
As I’ve said in the very recent past, web comic collectives are popping up like weeds. Gaming comics have been doing so for a long time. Neither has shown any sign of stopping in the near future. Yesterday a new collective of gaming comics, called Gamers PairofDice was launched yesterday.
Gamers PairofDice (pair of dice/paradise, get it?) consists of five game related comics. The ranks are comprised of Commissioned Comics, Digital Unrest, Dueling Analog, Extralife and Press Start to Play. Despite the name suggesting more of a dependence on board games or at least table top RPG gaming but only Commissioned deals with these games. The others are all about video and computer games.
It’s seems today that web comic collectives are popping up like Starbucks. Great herds of creators roam the mighty plains of the Web to protect them from the dangers of lions, hyenas and other critic like predators. It’s a pattern we’ve all seen before.
Something new is a foot though. Six comic creators have come together, not to be able so circle the wagons when threatened, but rather to tell a story, and maybe make some money on the side.
I was hiking all over the Internet today and was reading the blog entries that accompany the comics, because that the kind of time I have these days. Most were the usual, “I feel purple today” entries but I saw Wes Molebash’s site. Wes, the creator of You’ll Have That, mentioned that he was suffering from the common web comic malady of burnout.
Burnout happens to everyone, especially anyone engaged in a creative endeavor.