First things first: I would be remiss in my duties as a writing contributor who also blogs on the side while reporting (official title – tentative) if I didn’t first link the main content of this entry. So here they are: your 2007 WCCA Nominees (whether you like them or not)!

If you’re in webcomics or you simply READ webcomics, you’ve seen this list, made your mind up as to who should win, who WILL win, and who shouldn’t even be on the list to begin with (Howard Taylor’s artwork on Starslip? O-V-E-Rated). Still, I love’s me some fiery debate, what some might even call drama, and so this little gem over at Fleen caught my eye. While most stories on the Fleen archives garner, on average, three-to-five comments each, some amass well over forty, usually due to the aforementioned debate breaking out. And lo! The god Kurtz doth bow down from his mighty mountain to deign what is right and righteous! Behold!

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What’s the average age of a web comic? 1 year? 2? Perhaps 100 strips? We get a lot of people telling us about those. What about 7.5 years and 1000 strips? I’m pretty sure that makes you damn near eternal. That’s exactly what PC Weenies is. Krishna M. Sadasivam has been doing his strip so long we all take it for granted he’s been around since the dawn of web comics. The only complaint I have s doesn’t update enough. I mean only 1000 strips? There should be 3015 strips in that archive for me to spend the rest of my life reading and falling out of my chair laughing.

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I don't have a lot to say about it but this is the coolest thing I think I've seen come out of Web comics in at least a good month or so. Of course, I'm an aspiring writer and huge fan of Dinosaur Comics so Ryan North pretty much had me from 'Hello.'

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Regardless of your age, gender, religion, or ethnicity, you’ve played with your fair share of toys. Odds are, a good number of you STILL play with toys (Lord knows I’ve still got my share). For this reason alone, you should already be enjoying Toyzville by Larry Merrill. If you’re not, then jump on the bandwagon. It’s not too late! The all ages fun of Automaton Tom and Brock as they bounce around Toyzville, interacting with the various toys, young and old, is not to be miss…

What? Toyzville is done? Larry just lost the drive to work with the gang? And the trademark/copyright-happy cast won’t fly in a printed work? Aw heck… just go check the site for the words straight from Larry, I can’t do this now…

Come again? Larry is taking his artistic chops and combining them with the writing prowess of Steve Campbell of Turnsignals to concoct a whole new webcomic titled The Boids? Well… looking back, I would say that this tag-team perfectly covers their respective weaker attributes and could be what both creators need to get their well-deserved time in the spotlight.

Sorry to see Toyzville pass on to that ever-expanding webcomic Great Beyond, Larry, but good luck with The Boids!

Remember when you were a kid and you had a lunchbox that, instead of food, you'd fill with loose toys, scraps of fun, and things you treasured? You'd carry that silly lunchbox all over the place, setting it down to occasionally examine its contents, then securely clack the latches shut. If you weren't that kid, you knew that kid (and if you didn’t, stop ruining my analogy and play along). I feel like that kid all over again.

The newest online comic collective on the block is Lunchbox Funnies, launching with the slogan 'All-Ages Comics for Everyone!' The line-up is incredible, featuring some of the best all-ages strips on the Internet. This, of course, doesn't mean that only children and people of diminished mental capacity can visit and fall in love with Lunchbox Funnies. I myself was already reading several of these strips before now and I is real smart.

The funtastic gang is composed of the following:

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Eric Burns, flexing his Websnark muscle, got a collection of his favorite cartoonists to put together a 17-part epic in which he asked collaborator, cohort, and companion Wednesday White to marry him. “Oh. By the by?” he added to his post later in the day, “She said yes.”

This isn’t the first time the comics medium has been utilized for a wedding proposal. Mike from Penny Arcade did it, the Dave and Raina story is that of legend, and even Rob Liefeld did it in an issue of Youngblood. But each time I’ve seen something like this occur, there’s been a twist. Continue reading →

Flying Monkey Comics, the quirky lovechild parented by Simon Perrins and Andrew Livesey, has abandoned the static realms currently occupied by their print and online comic offerings. No longer shall each of their characters (zombies, aliens, women, etc.) lay flat upon the paper or without tickling the glittering components of a reader's monitor.

Along with a website revamp to ring in the new year, the FMC Crew has provided a moving, noise-making trailer to entice you the unwitting reader into enjoying their wares. Continue reading →

Happy New Year everybody. Hope you and yours are doing well. I for one am looking forward to another year of great Web comicy goodness here at Digital Strips.

Here's something that I thought was worth a gander. Stephen Schleicher, a writer over at Major Spoilers, one of the bigger comic book blogs, has started listing his 57 top Web comics. He's three days into the endeavor and up to 21 with another two (I assume) updates coming. Continue reading →