In the course of helping my daughter with a high school English assignment (“Find a poem that expresses your personality”), I found something really cool: The Poetry Foundation is inviting artists to create comics to illustrate poems. There are five entries so far in their series, “The Poem as Comic Strip,” and each one takes a different approach. Like poems, the webcomics are deceptively small, just a page or two each, but filled with meaning and associations.

The first in the series is Belly Dancer, poem by Diane Wasoski, art by David Heatley. The poem, written in 1966, explores sensuality and repression: Continue reading →

Hey gang. I know I rarely post news, but I have personal vested interest in this one, since I’m on the staff. Call it shameless self-promotion, call it what you will.

But the Clickwheel has relaunched.

Brand spankin’ new interface and exclusive content, including Judge Dredd. It’s worth a looksee for comics fans and iPod owners alike.

If you read gaming comics and haven’t seen this yet, you’ll get a kick out of it. Everyone’s favorite crackpot Jack Thompson is fighting with another Web Cartoonist. This time it’s Scott Johnson of ExtraLife for his Make-Fun-of-Jack contest.  Aparently Blog post comments are the hip new way lawyers are putting out cease and desist letters.

Plenty of other sites have tried to summaries the happenings, but I recommend reading it from Scott’s own keyboard here.

Say what you will about Internet Drama, you can’t make up stuff this entertaining.

It is with a bitterness in my mouth and a pang of desperation in my heart that I concede the possession of webcomics to Mr. Ryan Estrada, the owner and purveyor of RyanEstrada.com, and newly minted site, Cartoon Commune. This new site celebrates the fact that Estrada is now a full-time artist. The venerable artist celebrates this milestone by stealing the position as new artist on the soon-to-be-relaunched poker webcomic, Life’s A Bluff, right out from under my nose and whipping up guest comics for every strip on the Web. Don’t believe me? Read this.

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It’s hard to come up with webcomics news from anywhere else unless you’re thinking PAX. Talk about good timing. This seemingly innocent expo to gather fans together was posed just right to take over the gaping hole E3 left behind. I would be surprised if a couple thousand of the attendees didn’t even know what a webcomic was until they attended. According to reports though the reason has to do with a complete plastering of the PA comic everywhere. Now that’s marketing.

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The days have been long and number of posts small but since it has been a few days, not to mention the scathing sarcasm sent my way, I feel compelled to reveal onto the world the product of one Nathan Bramble. The other original host of the show was Zampzon. He was the one with the background in comics who knew what he was talking about while I tried my hand at being the straight man. It was a good combination but there came a time when Zampzon left the empire on his own walk-about to discover himself. In that pursuit he took a page from ever humble Ryan Estrada and create a site that was not so much a webcomic as a collection of webcomics.

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Comixpedia – It was ages ago when news hit us about the mammoth project that is the webcomic wiki was needing some new parents. There was a post and email to all us hosting sites and critics to ask if any of us had the time and energy to absorb such a large administrative project. DS volunteered space but in the end Josh Roberts, the proprietor of ComicSpace and OnlineComics took over the reins of the web comics encyclopedia. Coinciding with the move is also the official re-branding of Comixpedia to ComixTalk. This was done in order to let the encyclopedia use the name Comixpedia without confusion.

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When it’s hard to find enough news for an editorial we have to lean back on the good old news brief. There’s been a string of interviews and tidbits sent us that have piling up. Tell us if you like these news summaries and we’ll go back to them. That also means everyone needs to start using that news submission link over to the left. For the real list of good interviews you need to catch up with T Campbell and his Blowing Bubbles work on Broken Frontier.

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Web comics are sexy. Podcasting is also sexy. Podcasting about Web comics is super sexy. Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub and Dave Kellett are now officially super sexy. Along with Brad Guiger (who was already super sexy) they have started a new podcast, Webcomics Weekly.

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