There are two things in my life that I know that I fully understand. 1) Pudding is delicious 2) I don't understand women.
Fortunately there's Girlamatic, an off shoot of Modern Tales focusing on comics for young women, which if I weren't such a raging ball of manly testosterone, I would read for peeks into the psyche of the fairer sex.
If you enjoy yourself some web news in the morn as much as I do, then you’ve probably already come across the news item detailing Richard Stevens’ recent deal to have the angst-ridden pop-culture-fest, Diesel Sweeties, printed in countless newspapers via the United Feature Syndicate. In the press release/blog post, Stevens details that, while this is the achievement of a lifelong dream, he won’t forget who brought him to the awesomely kickass party.
So I’ve been “in” webcomics for about two years now, and an avid reader for four. In this time, I’ve learned that, in a medium where anyone and everyone can take an active role in a matter of minutes, you have to learn to take the good with a LOT of the bad. I’ve found several sites that talk about webcomics not in search of personal gain but for love of the medium. I count many of the must-reads as my favorites as well as some more obscure strips that could use a good review or two to get their traffic up. But what it boils down to is, I know what webcomics are, and that puts me ahead of a great sampling of the population.
So, Daku and I have been chugging along with the podcasts as best we can while he’s flying all over the place and Weds is busy. Typically, one of us picks a comic we like and give it to the others and say “Let’s do a show on this one.”
Honestly, it’s getting tougher to pick comics. I feel like I’m running out of ones to do, personally. And the “Submit Comic” link doesn’t seem to be working…
So, with that in mind, if you listeners and readers out there have a comic that you’d like to see us cover for an installment of the podcast, send us an e-mail at digital.strips@gmail.com or glitchphil@gmail.com and we’ll definitely consider it.
You go and pay some of the biggest mouths in the industry to do your talking for you.
It all started around 54 years ago when the CCA was created in response to “public concern” that was stirred up in the early 50’s. As a result we had the first self censorship in the entertainment industry. This also started a trend followed by movies\tv in 1968 and the gaming industry in 1994. What was the result of this rating? Well a bunch of letters most parents don’t pay attention to. I can almost gauruntee 99% of you reading this have either seen a R rated movie before you were 13 or played an M rated game before you were 17.
Ah Fall, the air is getting colder, kids are heading back to school and everything is dieing all around us. One good thing about autumn time though, is new entertainment schedules both on TV and on the Web.
Earlier this month Modern Tales got a new editor, Shaenon K. Garrity, who quickly opened Modern Tales up for new submissions. Nine new strips have been added to Comics Lounge Section which is free so it can be enjoyed by any and all cheapskates out there, such as myself.
Week 3 of Interest Piquers finds a few more strips jumping on my already-overflowing pull list, all, as usual, courtesy of Digital Strips (have you heard of the site? I hear it’s pretty good). The first and most exciting is the subject of the most recent podcast: The Dreamland Chronicles. Not far behind that is Sequential Art, a strip reviewed back in Podcast #74, which I’ve fallen behind on keeping up with due to lack of RSS feed or compatability with my bookmarking service. And finally, a quick thought or two on webcomic merchandise. Ready? Here we go!
Chris Cantrell, the great craftsman behind the webcomic, Please Rewind, is proud to announce the long-anticipated release of the first issue of Please Rewind: The Comic Book! Featuring full-color, digitally restored strips previously found only on the Internet, the 16-page, full-color goodness can be yours for only 3 bones! That’s right, 3 bucks (plus shipping and handling, some additional fees may be included, void in states that don’t matter) and this gem can be yours! Pop on over to the Comixpress store now and pick up your copy! Or two! Maybe even three!
And it’s FULL-COLOR!
After going around the board a few times as the little Scottie dog, Boxcar Comics seems to have a bit of a monopoly on their hands. With a little reshuffling and recruiting, Boxcar in now home to three of the biggest movie comics on the Web.
Multiplex, by Gordon McAlpin, has joined up? with Theater Hopper and the rest of the Boxcar collective, bringing the number of total strips to 15. This is especially good for me because they all line up in 3 rows of 5 silence my need to rearrange them when they had 2 rows of 5 and one of 4. Continue reading
No news in the queue, a fairly quiet week in the world of webcomics, so it must be time for another installment of Interest Piquers! I have no idea if you read the strips I do or even care what I have to say about what went down in my weekly world of webcomics, but hopefully this time around I can elicit at least one reaction, good or bad, from you guys. This week on the docket, we have Red Dahlia, Crimson Dark, Penny Arcade, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and PvP. Yeah, the last three are staples to most of your pull-lists, but let’s see if we can’t put a different spin on them. Ready?
