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Kazu Kibuishi is an accomplished creator of print and web comics alike. His print work includes Daisy Kutter, the up and coming Amulet, and his most lucrative project yet, the Flight anthologies. His online endeavors (hosted on his web site: boltcity.com) include Clive and Cabbage and the ever gorgeous Copper.
Kazu’s creativity, observant imagination, and clean sense of craft have recently won him the Web Comic Choice Award for “Outstanding Environment Design”, and has proven himself one of the great rising stars of the medium of comics (both web based and otherwise). It was then to my great pleasure that I found two lovely and very tasteful interviews with him concerning his work schedule and process.
As I’ve said in the very recent past, web comic collectives are popping up like weeds. Gaming comics have been doing so for a long time. Neither has shown any sign of stopping in the near future. Yesterday a new collective of gaming comics, called Gamers PairofDice was launched yesterday.
Gamers PairofDice (pair of dice/paradise, get it?) consists of five game related comics. The ranks are comprised of Commissioned Comics, Digital Unrest, Dueling Analog, Extralife and Press Start to Play. Despite the name suggesting more of a dependence on board games or at least table top RPG gaming but only Commissioned deals with these games. The others are all about video and computer games.
PookeyG had a little post awhile ago about selling more then t-shirts and it looks like Wes is using the third highest money-maker. He’s going to start selling archival prints of You’ll Have That. The catch is he needs to sell at least 6 prints in order to purchase the mailing materials. All the artwork will be printed on glossy, 8 X 10 photo paper. Almost all of the comic strips are available to be printed.
The second little joy Wes has for us is the uploading of old YHT comics that were previously only in his message boards every Saturday and Sunday starting July 15. So stop by for the first in a series of comics he calls You’ll Have That: The Lost Episodes. Lastly You’ll Have That caught the attention of Wizard Magazine!
Hey gang. It’s Phil. Normally I don’t make a habit of doing blogposts here but I have a special announcement. After eight months of labor, I’m Just Drinking is now a reality.
It’s a big wiki based around the idea of creating and collecting Webcomics-themed cocktails and other drinks. After enough are collected, we’re gonna make a book out of it. Hell, there’s even some recipes for Digital Strips themed drinks.
So yeah. Check it out and have some fun with it.
There are so many web comics out there and most of them so much alike they are starting to blend. Despite the over abundance of roommate based strips there are the few and far between such as Sinfest which I can’t relate to but read simply because of the good writing and art. I’ve always enjoyed Tatsuya Ishida’s delightful black and white strip and you find one of the first reviews on DS was about Sinfest.
The big news, first found in the forums of Comixpedia, Continue reading
It’s seems today that web comic collectives are popping up like Starbucks. Great herds of creators roam the mighty plains of the Web to protect them from the dangers of lions, hyenas and other critic like predators. It’s a pattern we’ve all seen before.
Something new is a foot though. Six comic creators have come together, not to be able so circle the wagons when threatened, but rather to tell a story, and maybe make some money on the side.
I was hiking all over the Internet today and was reading the blog entries that accompany the comics, because that the kind of time I have these days. Most were the usual, “I feel purple today” entries but I saw Wes Molebash’s site. Wes, the creator of You’ll Have That, mentioned that he was suffering from the common web comic malady of burnout.
Burnout happens to everyone, especially anyone engaged in a creative endeavor.
2005 was our first convention and we were impressed. If there is anything about ConnectiCon that I like it’s the treatment they have for Web Comic artists. They are always treated well even if their tier system is a little out of whack. The tier system made a huge fuss last year and I don’t think it changed much.
After being their two years in a row I think they could make it a little easier to get at least entrance. After attending the NY ComicCon the Dealer’s room looked a bit small and could use a few more artist’s but then I walked around the hallway to the side and found the Artist’s Colony. At first I found this to be very annoying but then warmed up to it when I found I didn’t have to deal with the vendors when I wanted to talk to the artists.
With my interest piqued and my mind sparked by the most recent Yirmumah! story arc, I have a simple question for you all:
Comic book or comic strip?
Those of us who frequent both forms of art are immediately thrown into a frenzy to defend one or the other, but what about everybody else? What of those who know nothing of the differences between these two story-telling techniques? And why should we have to choose between the two? Can’t we have both?
