The cartoonist behind PC Weenies, Krishna, has let us know that his web comic is about to reach 750 comics. To celebrate this personal milestone PC Weenies is holding a contest. Here are the details in Krishna’s press release:
“To commemorate the 750th PC Weenies toon, I’m holding a “PCW Favorite Toon” contest. Continue reading
We have decided to begin accepting advertisements for the DigitalStrips.com web site. You can find all the details, including pricing on our Advertise page. The plans include the top banner ad and two spaces in our right sidebar. We’re adopting a flat fee pricing model and I think we’ve priced the ads in such a way that all levels of web comics can afford to place an ad on our site.
We’re looking primarily for web comics to purchase the space or comic related merchandise or services. Continue reading
This week’s show features a review of the online comic Extra Life by Scott Johnson. After being informed of the review Scott invited us to be on his own podcast, Extra Life Radio. So, last night we logged into Skype and chatted about starting Digital Strips and web comics in general. You can download the interview by clicking right here.
After doing so many interviews in which we were the ones asking the questions it was a little weird being the question receiver. Continue reading
Another Digital Strips comic to continue the tale that follows the beginnings of our humble project here. I’ve toned down the maimings of my partner and have instead turned to public humiliation. Hopefully I didn’t cram in too much background this time.
I abandoned the hand drawn word balloons for this one and went with the PhotoShop created ones. I find it easier to place the dialogue after the fact, but I do love having a completed Continue reading
Regular listeners to the show will be aware that we have been receiving a lot of great promotional material, swag if you will, from various comic artists wishing to promote their sites. Daku and I have been trying to come up with a fun and interesting way to give this stuff away in contests and as rewards to our listeners and readers. I think we have just thing.
I am officially announcing “The Monthly Web Comics Scavenger Hunt“. Here’s how this is going to work. Continue reading
Daku and I continue to work at developing our own comic strip to supplement the site and show. Once I get enough of these strips done I’ll put up a section on the site where everyone can read through them. For now though, I’ll just post them piece-meal like I’ve been doing.
For the beginning of the strip we want to introduce the over all concept of what we’re all about, an origin story if you will. I’m experimenting with some possibilities, but we start off with the cold hard facts: Continue reading
Have you ever wished you could read your favorite web comics while in the bathroom, but that darn laptop just keeps slipping off your lap? Well, I have just the thing for you. Zoinks! Magazine, The Webcomic Newspaper has announced it’s triumphant return to the printed page.
Under the guidance of Bill Charbonneau and his Boneflake Studios, Zoinks! will be commissioning various web comic content to appear in it’s pages. The magazine looks very much like the comics page Continue reading
The web comics community continues to pull together to aid one of the most web comic friendly cons out there, ConnectiCon. At the time of this post over $17,000.00 has been raised in the few days since the Save ConnectiCon site went online. However, this is still just over half of what is ultimately needed to save the con organizers from financial ruin.
As promised, some web comic creators have begun putting original artwork into eBay auctions, the proceeds of which will be donated. Continue reading
Back in October of 2004 the people of Keenspot announced a new service, Keensyndicate, that aimed to take some of it’s considerable library of web comics and turn them into a printed page for newspapers to use, essentially turning many web comic artists into professional, syndicated cartoonists. It isn’t clear just how successful this endeavor has been so far, I can only confirm one newspaper in California using the comics page, but it is clear that the folks of Keen are still moving the project forward.
The web comic community is rallying to help the creators of ConnectiCon. We got word from Phil Kahn, the writer of the web comic criticism site known as I’m Just Saying that he, too, is throwing his hat into the ring. He has posted an eBay auction and Phil will donate the proceeds to the Save ConnectiCon cause.
“Whoever wins this auction will get a 2-4 page essay written by me, on any topic of their choosing in any form. Continue reading