Sorry all this is from a couple days ago. I’ve been a little off my game lately. Oh well, if you didn’t know it yet, it’s still web comics news to you.

Nate Piekos, of Atland and Blambot fame, did an interview with Silver Bullet Comics recently. He talked about his projects and his art style. I’m always a junkie for any “how they do it,” behind the scene peeks at anything so I enjoyed it. More importantly, though, it will hopefully bring some more people into our community. According to the interview Joshua Sage, the Silver Bullet forums haven’t spoken too highly of online comics in general. Hopefully Piekos’s polished style (his own) and vast amount of bounteous cleavage (not his own) will turn a few heads and gain a few coverts.

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Greetings everyone. Happy April Fool’s Day. An entire day devoted to making other people look stupid. It’s the best holiday since my birthday. Cartoonists have always used this day as a chance to have a laugh of their own at the expense of the readers or to just have fun. I still have a special place in my heart for that time about ten years ago when all the syndicated cartoonists got together and swapped around. Naturally with their unlimited potential and complete lack of a governing power, web comics are generally able to pull off bigger and better pranks (which makes sense since they usually have bigger and better strips).

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Scott Kurtz, in yesterday’s PVP, stood up for “dick and fart jokes” which are a mainstay for comics across the Web. This got me thinking about such jokes and why I can’t help laughing at them

Comedy has many sources. Insults, clever wordplay, logical disconnects and many more. One of the best is recognizability. These are jokes that play off a cross between “it’s funny because it’s true,” and “yeah, I’ve been there.”

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If you like web comics and podcasts (and I have a sneaky suspicion that you do), your two worlds have collided again in another fine Internet program.

Scott Johnson, the man behind the ExtraLife comic strip, has recently started a new podcast called Diary of a Cartoonist. Diary is different than most web comics podcasts for two reasons. First, rather than discussing or reviewing strips that are out in the market, through the show Johnson gives the listener a behind the scenes look at how he makes a comic. Also, rather than pure audio, Dairy includes images that coincides with what Johnson is talking about at that point. This means you have to be able to play MPEG 4 format files.

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Sorry to disappear on everyone for a week. My Spring broke and you know how that is.

In my opinion, one to the biggest drawing aspects to web comics is the niche factor. It doesn’t matter what you’re into, it seems like there’s a web comic about it somewhere.

There are, of course, the standard niches that have been done time and time again, but keep offering quality material of video and computer games, Dungeons and Dragons, movies and entertainment and politics.

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I don’t like talking about the same strip in a two-week period but Chugworth’s got me thinking again.

Today’s strip appears to be dig on the popular practice of making a special entry to mark a certain number strips. You’ve probably seen what I’m talking about. They vary from introducing new characters or storylines to big splash pages that just say, “thanks for reading!” Others bring in guests to help celebrate while others prefer to go for a little misdirection.

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For those of you who have taken it off your bookmarks list, Sinfest is back.

The super popular, often linked to webcomic with a name so that sounds so dirty you almost want to remove it from your browser history has returned after an unannounced sabbatical, today. Sinfest stopped updating back in mid January.

A while back a reader asked what happened. I did some poking around the site, but found no explanation. Even today all creator Tatsuya Ishida gave us was a confusing statement that there was something he had to do and that who ever it was for didn’t mean anything to him. It was actually pretty funny and well written.

So if you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the return of Slick and the gang, today appears your lucky day. If you’ve never read Sinfest, head on over anyway and check it out.

In the mean time, I’ll try to scrounge some more stuff up.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to become one of the Boxcar Children. Unfortunately my inability to solve mysteries and my still living parents prevented me from doing so. Fortunately Boxcar Comics, has no such requirements and has welcome two new strips into their collective.

The two strips are Aikida by J. Meinzer and Hate Song by Fred Grisolm.

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I’ll be honest. I did not get today’s Chugworth Academy at first. This didn’t really surprise me. While I read Chugworth every update, in general I enjoy the artwork more than the writing. It’s just a style that doesn’t jell with me.

I figured it was just a reference to something I didn’t know about. But then I read the news post underneath and it all became clear to me and I felt it was worth sharing.

It’s a vicious cycle but it’s entertaining to me none the less.

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This is more of a question than a post.

If you’re anything of a web comic reader, I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of buttons along side your favorite strips for you to vote for your favorite strip. For those who don’t know, these are links for various top 100 sites, like Buzzcomix or TopWebComics, where strips battle it out in popularity contests.

For the longest time I wouldn’t vote because I was paranoid of clicking stuff after a bad experience with punching a monkey.

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