I have a confession, after studying Chinese culture for 5 years, I still don't know what kung fu action grip is. I just know that I want it.

If such a legendary grip does exist in the world of web comics, I think we may have found it. Justin Gibbs has come up with a new way for web comics' creators to pimp their wares and fans to find new strips to get their fix off of, KungFuGrip.com. The site uses the tried and true Digg.com method of letting people vote (or Grip, as it's called at KungFuGrip) entries that they like. The more Grips an entry gets the better spot it gets on the site. Continue reading →

Yep, I made up a word. Wanna fight about it? Since Daku beat me to the punch on the weekly round-up of news (courtesy of our new news board which you, yes YOU, can post to!), I figured I would write about the webcomics that piqued my interest for one reason or another this week. It’s bad, it’s good, it’s my weekly Interest Piquers!

– First off, for whatever reason, I’ve fallen behind on my reading of deadmouse’s Ballad over on Modern Tales (pay comics are ridiculous, by the way, but that’s a topic for another day). I was turned onto it by Digital Strips, natch, and I immediately fell in love with the amazing feel and forboding atmosphere that deadmouse is able to create. Through a link to Modern Tales I once again came upon this forgotten gem of my pull-list and quickly positioned it right back on top, where it belongs. You should do the same.

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PC Weenies – PC Weenies Hit 900 at the beginning of this week. The PC Weenies, the venerable technology toon written by Krishna M. Sadasivam, hits its 900th toon on Monday, August 7th. With bona fide adult content (a first!). You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll wish you were at Walmart. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Blade Kitten – Blade Kitten is finally killing some trees. After a couple of years of nothing but net Steve Stamatiadis finally decided to release the first collection of Blade Kitten as a print edition. It’s like having a website that you can carry around in your hands and can be read using any available light source.

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Evolution is a big topic these days. Some people are really upset at evolution. I used to be upset about it too. I figured if there were no evolution we would all still be hanging out naked in the jungle. Then I realized that evolution also gave us waterslides, so it sort of evens out.

This Little Gamers strip from a few days ago got me thinking about evolution in web comics. It is a key thing that critics look for in a strip. We like to see the strip grown from what it was into what it is and to continue to become what it should be.

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A funny thing happened to me tonight. While taking some notes for a review of Press Start to Play by Adam Law and Darryl Walker, which recently became a founding contributor to the gaming comics collective, Gamers Pair of Dice, my opinion of the strip evolved over the course of my page and a half of thoughts, good and bad, on this seemingly derivative webcomic (it is, after all, a gaming strip).

Before assembling my opinions, my first impression was that it did nothing new for the genre and so it should be largely ignored by your webcomic pull-lists. However, while putting together bulleted lists, Continue reading →

Well I’ve been waiting on the totals all weekend, but it is now official: last week was the biggest week in webcomics EVER. There were not one, but TWO huge announcements that came out of the annual San Diego Comic-Con. First, at the Eisner Award ceremony, Scott Kurtz was presented with the Best Digital Comic award. Not to be outdone, D.J. Coffman was announced as the winner of the Comic Book Challenge, with his property, “Hero By Night”?, being optioned for production in both print and television. Suddenly, we’ve got two mega-super-giganta-celebrities on our hands. Can anything top such a huge, blockbuster week? Funny you should say that.

I’ve been sitting on this jaw-dropper for some time now, but today I got the go-ahead phone call to give Digital Strips the exclusive first. Together, with Stan Lee, Steven Spielberg, Joss Whedon, and Jesus Christ, I am bringing my own new property, “Erotic Samurai Lesbians from Mars”? to the big screen. After the movie drops in the Summer of 2008, the ESLM will head to Cartoon Network for a guaranteed five-year cartoon series. This series will be supplemented by an ongoing comic book, a five-novel book series, and finish up with another feature film, produced and directed by Peter Jackson. Seriously, this is the ONLY thing that would be big enough to take away from these two huge pieces of news. Congratulations to both Scott Kurtz and D.J. Coffman for their achievements and here’s to hoping there’s nowhere to go from here but up.

So, those idiots over at the Eisner commitee decided to give one to that big loser Scott Kurtz. Do they have any idea what this is going to do to his already disgusting ego?

What a jerk.

Just kidding. Congratulations, Scott. I know what it means to you as a comics and webcomics enthusiast to be given what is, truly, the highest earnable accolade. Well done.

Welcome back one and all! I know you had fun in San Diego, your Convention Updates told me so. Told me all about the sites the sounds and the cool people you met. That’s terrific, really it is, but now you can all get back to your usual grind at the drawing board. You can all go back to placing your characters in cleverly outlandish (or even more cleverly INlandish) positions and you can continue to fill me in on the specifics of your everyday mundane (but amusing) lives.

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That title looks a little more boring then the Napoleon Dynamite quote I was trying to rip off. The web comic community loves Keenspot, whether it’s in complete awe of their presence or a hate born of jealousy. Whichever camp you belong in I’ll be the first to admit he’s at the top of the game when it comes to marketing. On the heels of losing Sinfest and the imminent creation of the Geekfur collective the Keen 4 have made a serious of announcements at Comic-Con that left me all squishy.
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