The reason I'm always so slow about reporting stuff is I never seem to hear it first hand. Actually I don't always get it second hand either. I got today's story from Extra Life who linked to Diesel Sweeties who go it straight from the horse's mouth (or at least linked to it). So if this is the first you've heard of it, you're getting it fourth hand.
End of week? Check.
Tons of webcomic news to sludge through? Check.
Interest Piquers? Check!
I managed to spend two whole days at Anime Boston without seeing any anime at all. In fact, they should really retitle it Anime and Webcomics Boston, as there was a strong webcomics presence in Artists Alley and I saw some really interesting work. One of the highlights was chatting with artists J. Dee Dupuy and Dan Hess about their webcomics.
Dee was promoting her new webcomic, Singularity, which just started this weekend. 'It's a flat-out, no holds barred, no apologies made romance,' she said. 'It is absolutely the sweetest story. It is so far from OniKimono,' her comic on Wirepop.
Singularity is a romance between men, but Dee insists 'It's not yaoi. It doesn't have a lot of violence and angst. Well, it has a bit of angst.' Continue reading
It’s been a fantastic 6 weeks and I’ve added a few more pins to my wall map. The only thing I didn’t do is try to meet strangely large amount of Australian web comic artists. Enough of me talking about me and let’s all listen to someone else talk about DS. That’s right, yet another person knows of our greatness and just how talented we are. Derek Coward of Comic Book Noise recently joined the CPN and did what the rest of us should be doing, talking about the DS. In one of his latest podcasts Derek gives us the props and talks about our talking talents while playing a bit from our SARC review.
It’s the end of the week and boy has there been a lot of webcomic news sticking to these here Interwebs! If you’ve made any comments, puns, or otherwise erstwhile thoughts known to the general Interpublic, there’s a good chance your week was interrupted with a rude cease-and-desist letter. We here at Digital Strips have thus far escaped punishment for our editorialized content, most likely because our EIC is MIA and fails to check his E-mail ASAP.
I’m sure we’ll catch up with this whole situation when he pops back into plain sight. Until then, I’ve got news bits to keep you happy. A new book from an old favorite, a manifesto from someone long overdue on such a topic, the Eisner award nominees for Best Digital Comic, and a strip I recently stumbled across and fell in love with before my head cracked against the pavement. Seriously, head over heels and it hurt like the dickens. On we go! Continue reading
I do apologize profusely for not reporting this when it happen on Friday. I've been up to my face in assembly code and it ain't pretty (the code, my face is very pretty). Apparently Fleen has done a much better job of covering this whole Todd Goldman/David Kelly fiasco. So much better that Goldman is suing Fleen for libel.
If you devour every issue of the New York Review of Books, have I got the webcomic for you!
Even if you don’t, you’ll probably recognize a lot of the characters in Art Imitating Lit, a handful of comic strips by Patricia Storms that skewer chick-lit-crit, big-box bookstores, Oprah’s book club, and pretentious writers named Jonathan.
Storms got some extra notice this week when GalleyCat came up with this arresting tidbit: Writer Jonathan Lethem told an interviewer for Wired magazine that this cartoon that paired him with Michael Chabon was the closest he had come to starring in slash fiction, adding that it was “just an inch away from being Kirk and Spock.”
OK, this is seriously cool: Postmodern Haircut is a webcomic devoted entirely to the linguist/political activist/media critic Noam Chomsky.
While Chomsky fans will probably get bigger laughs out of this, Postmodern Haircut dips into a universal well for its humor: In the comic, Chomsky is portrayed as a clueless academic with a smart-alecky dog, Predicate, who sometimes serves as a reality check and sometimes just sells him out.
I could see Chomsky providing enough material for a single comic, or maybe two, but cartoonist Jeffrey Weston has managed to spin his subject matter out for 20 episodes, with more to come. His riffs include a Noam Chomsky doll that corrects your grammar, Continue reading
While driving home one fateful afternoon, I found myself listening in on an old Blank Label Comics podcast which featured hosts Kristofer Straub and Dave Kellett chatting with Scott Kurtz about anything and everything. They gabbed about Lost, enjoyed several inside jokes (seemingly a mainstay whenever Kurtz and Straub surf the airwaves together), and talked about the importance of printed works of webcomics. Kurtz stated that he took pride in his webcomic book collection and was thrilled at the thought of sharing these editions with his children and grandchildren, telling them of the time when comics first came to the Internet and the age of imagination and reinvention they brought to the stagnant artform.
Ok, so those weren’t his exact words, but the feeling was certainly there. And echoing that sentiment, I have begun building my own collection. And in the hopes that you will do the same, I hope to cover more printed collections here in this space, which I’m calling…
I was going to wait a week to talk about this as to keep with the site's motto but I figured I'd try something different this time.
I'm sure a lot of you have already heard about this weekend's Web comic drama. For those who haven't, hold on to your car keys because here we go. A few years ago there was a Web comic by the name of Purple Pussy by Dave Kelly. One of Mr. Kelly's strips was this one here. OK, do you remember what the strip looked like? Could you recognize it if you saw it again? Good, now look at this one here. Looks like a redrawn version for a book or something doesn't it? Yeah, it's not.
