This article was had me laughing too much to let just pass by. It sounds like a short story ripped from a Brave New World. The editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Kinsley, penned a column for the Washington Post. In this article he voices alarm at the severe drops in circulation that was announced last week. You've got to read the highlights of his list of solutions:

1. Government subsidies like what is done for agriculture.
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It always comes down to money. How can I, the lonely web comic artist, get more exposure and money? One solution is take your digitize art work and go hardcore. Well, at least start selling your archives in print form. We’ve reported before on the success of Megatokyo but Comixpedia has a nice round-up of several strips doing just that. Perhaps even more enlightening is Mom’s Cancer going into print. This announcement happened shortly after the strip was nominated for an Eisner.

O bitter comedy, thine name is Crone Dragon.

Manga haters unite!

I just wanted to make a quick post and say thanks to Steve over at The Outer Circle, a web comic that was my pick on the show last week. He posted a strip in which his characters give us and our show a mention and it is pretty funny. His comic will be entered into our ongoing We Love Web Comics Contest. Thanks Steve!

It’s not often that one finds an article dedicated to web comics so I was excited when I was pointed to this essay by the UF Visual Rhetoric Research Group. I was hoping for it to be a well thought out and researched document concerning the rise of web comics. What I got was an attempt to make them in to second class citizens. This paper irked me so much that I felt compelled to dissect it.

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If you’re a fan of comics then you, like me, are probably chomping at the bit to see the upcoming film Sin City. The film opens this Friday and you can bet your sweet pitootie I’ll be there. While the Sin City series of comics and graphic novels are not web comics there is a taste of the amazing work by Frank Miller on the official movie web site (sincitythemovie.com). If you go to the site and click on ‘Fan Central’ then ‘Original Art’ you’ll be treated with a couple pages of storyboard and concept sketches Continue reading →

Ok, the review wasn’t that negative, but that headline caught your attention didn’t it? Rob Stevenson runs the web site Journey Into History. The site is home to his web comic the HB Comic-Blog (my weekly pick from show 7) where his two comic characters review other web comics and various other sites. He solicits submissions from creators looking to be critiqued and his comic characters dig in.

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It seems every week there is more news how this or that newspaper is losing readers and profits in everything except their online division. The Editor and Publisher has a couple recent articles which highlight this trend greatly. One is the New York Times’ ongoing dilemma to start charging for access to its online content as revealed by Katharine Q. Seelye:

Executives at The Times have suggested that the paper, which already charges for its crossword puzzle, news alerts and archives online, may start charging for other portions of its content.

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The more web comics you read the more you notice some similar features being posted by web comic artists. If your comic becomes popular it seems almost inevitable that you start to receive fan art. Some of your readers will draw your characters in various styles as an homage and a show of gratitude for entertaining them. Many web comic artists will also post the fan art to their sites like on the Dandy and Company site and over at Ctl+Alt+Del.

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Comixpedia has pointed me to a web comic group Teh Gewd Guys. This group has exploded onto the scene with 6 new strips: Star Cross’d Destiny, This Comic Sucks, Clone Manga, Bigger Than Cheeses, Alien Loves Predator, and Beaver and Steve. If it wasn’t big enough with Order of The Stick and Chugworth Academy the addition of these six should bump it’s web traffic up quite a bit.

One of the easiest ways to promote your own web comic is to join groups like this which allow big name strips to help carry Continue reading →