Everybody run, the webcomicker has got a gun — UPDATE
This story isn't as corroborated as we'd like, and a bit hard to piece together, but it seems that web cartoonist Matt Boyd of Three Panel Soul was fired from his government job and...
Claypool Comics website launches
Remember Claypool Comics, the long running horror line whose low sales lef them to move to a webpublishing strategy? Well the new website has launched. EIC Richard Howell logs about various things:
A couple...
Virginia Tech comics
We recently got an email from a Brazillian cartoonist named Latuff who had posted some comics based on the Virginia Tech shootings at Deviant Art. Although we found the comics to be strong stuff,...
Jonas Moore: what are these VISUAL NOVELS???
As part of the imminent cell phone/iPod revolution many large corporations are sinking money into creating comics that can easily be morphed into cartoons or movies, or hybrids of the same. The flipside...
News and notes 4/25
§ Jim Lee has posted the pencils for the covers to the next three ALL-STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER covers. This qualifies as newsworthy since the book has been rather titanically late...
Boy on a Stick and Slither goes to Comics.com
As the line between comic strips and webcomics continues to blur, more of Ted Rall's handiwork is visible at United Media, as Steven L. Cloud's webcomic BOY ON A STICK AND SLITHER has just...
McCloud’s The Right Number now free
Boing Boing reports that Scott McCloud is now offering his webcomic THE RIGHT NUMBER, an early experiment in micropayments, for free.
The Right Number was originally presented in June 2003 using a micropayments system offered...
Pibgorn to return to the web
Here's a story going around that strikes us as hiving quite a bit of interest. PIBGORN was one of United Media's wwebcomics (yes they have them) by Brooke McEldowney, the creator of the popular...
News and Notes
§ Whatever happened to the rest of Hill andWang's non-fiction graphic novel series, we were wondering just the other day. WEll, ICv2 answers the question:
Hill and Wang plans to release Ronald Reagan: A Graphic...
A little bit more on new media – UPDATE
UPDATE: Joey Manley happens to have added a very long list of articles on webcomics and digital comics content right here. Great resource for anyone thinking about these things.
UPDATE 2: Now Tom...
The Webcomics killer app?
Joey Manley talks, as he is often wont to do, about the webcomics business model and points out that it still hasn't hit it big:
But think about it: there hasn’t been a YouTube, a...
ACT-I-VATE – FISHTOWN debuts
Kevin Coldan's FISHTOWN , yet another segment of the ACT-I-VATE webcomics consortium debuts.