Investing In Webcomics

Everyone is sitting around looking at that empty shelf space or that open table space. Here’s the answer you have been looking for.

Kid’s Book Project – You’ve been hearing about this from us for awhile now and you’ll continue until this charity is successful. The project is a children’s book containing artwork from over 50 webcomic artists who all contribute one page within the story of the book. Each artist has no help other than to see the page previous to their own and has to continue it. Another aspect is the artists are divided into two groups, one making its way from beginning and other from the end. All profits go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Each book costs £6. The book should be completed by October 2007 with a December 2007 release date.

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More Reasons To Support Tree Farms

Ever wonder how to fit 48 hours into the same day? It’s easy, just remember the joys of the International Date Line. That’s right, for the low cost of a plane ticket across the Pacific you can enjoy what no one else does and arrive before your plane took off. Just remember it can be even more fun if you find that one flight that everyone else is on and make sure to economy because nothing else says patience like having fat guys to either side and precocious 5 year olds behind you discovering folding trays for the first time. If you’re going to submit yourself to such torture you better be sure to bring something worth reading along with you. Below we have the perfect answers to make hell seem like a vacation from the boredom that is life.

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The Kid’s Book Project Update ~OR~ For People Who DON’T Hate Children

As a contributor and public shill, it is my duty, and privilege, to remind you that The Kid’s Book Project, spearheaded by Michael Rouse-Deane of Webcomics In Print fame, is underway and nearing the halfway mark of completion!

Pre-orders are already being taken on this 60-page tale of adventure, whimsy, and more adventure! Really, I can’t tell you what it’s going to be about as I’ve only seen two pages of the book thus far, the one that came after mine and the page I created.

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Breaking Into WebComics?

I’ll be the first one to admit I don’t know a thing about comics, especially the ones on that invention created from tubes. I have a vague idea of how of the business behind it though and I had the joy to give a well received panel about that at ConnectiCon last year. None of that matters for the beginner and here is where this particular scoop comes in handy. Do you remember growing up loving comics but not having a clue how a 15 year old could break into comics? There were a few really good books released such as drawing the Marvel or DC way. Perhaps even one on how to break into comics. Weren’t those great books? Where are the ones for web comics? It’s been more then 10 years and we may have quite a few good how to draw guides but where is the book that gives the whole process from conception to money?

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It’s All For The Kids ~OR~ Failing To Grow Up

The typical view of webcomics, by those that even know what they are, is of a story-telling style geared mostly towards the 18-34 year-old demographic. Look at some of our best examples and you’d be hard-pressed to argue. But there is actually a fair number of all-ages fare out there, you just have to know where to look. And with those kid-friendly works come kid-friendly projects, geared towards the young tykes and older folks alike. For us in the latter category, the question is a combination of “How much did you really grow up?” and “How much do you want to support webcomics?”

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The Trees Are Crying

I love my comics coming out in portable form. There are very few things better then spending some hard earned cash on some well drawn and well written art. At the last NYCC I couldn’t help but buy the comics of every artist that agreed to let us interview them but even then I missed getting Ugly Hill. Darn that Paul Southworth and all his creative talent for taunting me. Here are some more creators that insist on proving I don’t know how to save.

Shortpacked! – The past two years of shenanigans from David Willis arrives in it’s first print collection Shortpacked! Brings Back the Eighties. Continue reading

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Review of Penny Arcade Vol. 3: The Warsun Prophecies ~OR~ Only Thing To Improve Now Is The Artwork

The Penny Arcade brand name is one synonymous with quality. Now more of a media juggernaut than anything resembling just a webcomic, the adventures of Gabe and Tycho have evolved from two guys talking about their passion for gaming in all its forms to the first (and almost unanimously most trusted) source for gamer satire. The duo have run the gauntlet, with a ridiculously successful children’s charity and lucrative annual convention under their belt as prizes along the journey. With all of these accomplishments under the PA empire and an amazing pedigree to live up to, is it really any surprise that a collection of the webcomic that started the whole thing rolling is among the most professionally produced collections out there?

No. The answer is no. And there’s your review.

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I’m Back and Here Are the Shout-Outs

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.

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Catchin’ Up With Web Comic Books ~OR~ Collect ‘Em All!

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…

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Interest Piquers! ~OR~ Bloggin’ On A Wednesday Afternoon

There’s loads of little tidbits floating around in our precious Intertubes and I’ve just got to pick out some of them before the blockage stops all flow of traffic, incoming or outgoing. Come, converse with me…

Hasn’t Joe and Monkey been awesome lately? Sure, I wrote Zach Miller, the creator of the randomest of random duos, a letter detailing my increased adoration for his creation, but with the second collection, The Definition of Awesome, being nominated for another Blooker prize (the first collection won the award for books based on blogs in the Comics arena) it seemed like another great opportunity to shout my praises.

READ JOE AND MONKEY! IT REALLY IS THE DEFINITION OF AWESOME!!!

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