As a fat free Holiday treat, Dayfree Press artists gave each other guest art “Secret Santa Style.” Check it out, it reminds me of that April Fool’s Day years ago when a bunch of syndicated cartoonists did each other’s strips.
The new issue of Comixpedia includes a list of the top 25 people in webcomics. It’s quite an interesting read and includes a quick Q&A with most of the entries. Just be sure to remember it?s just a list, and only represents some people’s opinion.
Okay, I’m done been sick so I can read webcomics again. Hooray!
The super popular webcomic PVP ran a guest strip by Chris Giarrusso yesterday playing off the Christmas Kringus storyline. Today Giarrusso posted a fully animated version of the strip on his own site. Go check it out.
There’s just something about watching comic strips turned into animation that brings me back to the Charlie Brown Christmas Special.
Just a quick reminder, anyone ordering webcomic swag, or anything else off the Internet for that matter, for presents this holiday season, time is running out.
Now go read some of the many Christmas themed webcomics
Cracked Magazine, the Mad-like parody/comedy magazine that had me in stitches when I was but a lad, is making a comeback, and they’re taking Yirmumah with them.
Working up to Cracked’s return to newsstands next year, Cracked.com has been offering a website full of humorous essays, videos and comics, including DJ Coffmans’ Yirmumah. Yirmumah has been featured on the site for a few months now and they have recently upgraded to carrying the strip everyday.
Jason Sigala of Niego has decided to end his strip, stating he has lost the love for the strip. Sigala also said that he will stay on with Boxcar Comics – of which Niego was a member – as an alumni.
Boxcar hasn’t announced their plans for a replacement (if any) yet.
You can read the final Niego strip here or the farewell post in Sigala’s Livejournal page.
That’s right, $200,000.
That’s a lot of money and it’s going to make a lot of sick gets really happy.
Here’s the best part, we’re not even half way through December yet. There is still a lot of time for the webcomics and gaming communities to turn some heads and do some good.
If you’re like me and haven’t donated yet, go lend a hand. If you have, check out the official Child’s Play website, and feel good about what you’ve done.
I’m always trying to get more of my friends to get into webcomics. A common concern is that a lot of people crave more in depth and powerful story telling that touches on real issues. If you know anyone who has these concerns, send them over to Questionable Content.
While new readers won’t be as affect since they won’t be as attached to Jeph Jaques characters as regular readers they will still find a powerful story in progress.
Yesterday Theater Hopper hit the 500 strip mark, tomorrow Sam and Fuzzy will do the same. Congrats to both Tom Brazelton and Sam Logan on producing quality strip with such longevity and regularity.
EDIT: I just discovered Questionable Content also turned 500 on Monday. Congrats to Jeph Jacques as wells. Sorry I missed you.
The Daily Grind Iron Man challenge had two contestants fall out yesterday. Chris Crosby of Superosity and Yu-Jay Huoh of Abrandoned kids both dropped out ending almost two and a half months Continue reading
Fans of the extremely popular, genre-redefining, syndicated strip Calvin and Hobbes should take a moment today to reread some of the strips. Today marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Watterson?s first appearance in the funny pages.
Zach Miller of Joe and Monkey posted a tribute to the strip that has inspired so many others. If there are any other web comic artists who did Calvin themed strips today, that I missed, post them in the comments, I?d love to read them.
Hark, the Geek speaks.
Three more webcomics have found their way into publishedness. Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing a series of full color trade paperbacks featuring the popular manga-based comics Earthsong, Inverloch and Chugworth Academy.
According to the announcement made Monday, the series should begin to appear in bookstores about halfway into next year. Seven Seas a newer company but is already making a name for itself. You can read more about the company and the announcement here.
It’s not a bad dream, Checkerboard Nightmare is calling it quits. Creator Kristofer Straub has decided to end his popular strip. Tomorrow will be the final strip and today is the five year anniversary of the series.
Straub stresses on the announcement on his site that this is not the end for Checkerboard Nightmare or its character but that he will be shelving for a while so that he can focus his work on Starslip Crisis, another strip that he?s been doing for the last six months.