Here we go folks, the official Webcomic Hurricane Relief Telethon starts now. Every 20 minutes for the next two days the telethon site will be updated with a new comic strip donated by cartoonists across the web. The effort is to encourage people to donate money to the Red Cross to help fund the relief effort for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Please keep checking the site and please give all you can.
The cartoonist behind The Outer Circle, Steve Napierski, has included a little dig at us in his latest comic. It’s a funny strip that we’ve reviewed before and his blog does a good job at posting web comic news as well, so if you haven’t been reading this one you’ve been missing out. Go have a look.
As for the accusation, I swear Daku’s green card is in the mail. Honest.
We received a press release today from the web comic “!Pass” announcing some changes. Here is the full release:
“Creator of Modern Tales’ charming Genre City, Benjamin Birdie, has launched !Pass today, an online collective of several pieces of sequential narrative, both in print and on line. Designed to offer almost daily content to readers (leaving Saturdays for Continue reading
I was cruising around the world of web comics tonight, like I tend to do, and I came across a little gem you fine folks might find amusing. Zach Weiner, the cartoonist behind the web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and his friends have started posting video episodes of a series they call “The Jerry Simpiro Project” and they define it as “An ongoing documentary series about Jerry Simpiro, an up and coming web cartoonist“.
We’ve been told that the next couple of weeks worth of comics from Bored and Evil are being drawn by guest artist Richard Kirsch. Rich is planning on continuing the art style established by Bored and Evil cartoonist Robert Koch and adding a few characters of his own creation.
Bored and Evil is a web comic that follows the day to day antics of several movie monsters living with the often oblivious human geek Joe. Richard Kirsch is the cartoonist behind the newly established sci-fi web comic title Neltark and Willie. Good luck Rich!
Krishna Sadasivam, the cartoonist behind the web comic PC Weenies has announced a contest on his site. Krishna has set up an original PC Weenies comic strip without the dialogue. He’s asking people to submit their own writing for the strip and each will be judged by Krishna. The winning entrant will get a copy of the new video game Hulk: Ultimate Destruction as a prize. If anyone is interested in entering the contest you can find the comic template here in the PC Weenies forums. Continue reading
Jin Wicked, the cartoonist behind the excellent web comic Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, has just released volume two of her printed collection of comics. This volume collects comics numbered 101-200 that features the semi-biographical stories of Jin’s life and friends. The book is also full of extra artwork and commentary from Jin herself. You can order the book from her online store with Lulu.com.
The comic convention Comic Expo Brighton 2005 will be held in the UK at the Hilton Metropole on November 19-20. We’ve gotten word that there are several UK based web comic artists planning to attend. So far we know that Ali Graham from HOUSD will be there, as will James Turner of Beaver and Steve and the guys from Weebl and Bob. According to their site, Christen and Madsen from Little Gamers will also be attending. If you’re in the area be sure to check it out. This is shaping up to be an interesting event for web comic creators and fans alike to meet up.
The web comics creator collective Blank Label Comics has just launched a podcast of their own. Their audio show is scheduled to update weekly, every Monday, and is hosted by Dave Kellett of Sheldon and Kristofer Straub of Checkerboard Nightmare and Starslip Crisis. It’s too soon to tell just what they’ll be discussing each week, but their first show, posted this week, features an interview with fellow Blank Label member Brad Guigar about his efforts to organize the Web Comic Telethon for hurricane relief fund raising. Continue reading