Archive - Oct 23, 2003

Webtoonists: You Could Learn a Few Things From Thinking About Blogs


From time to time an article about blogging strikes me as if it could have been written about webcomics. This isn't that surprising as "webcomics is to comics" in many ways the same as "blogs to print journalism and writing".

Read these two articles (why blogging is conservative, and why blogging is radical) about how blogging relates to its offline analogues, substitute the word "webcomic" for "weblog" and see if most of the points don't still make a lot of sense.

New (Hopefully Improved) Top Comic Strip List at Planet Cartoonist


If you're a fan of "top vote lists" than you may want to check out the revamped top comics list at Plan(e)t Cartoonist.

It's new top 10 looks like an interesting mix (although I'm not familiar with about half of them):

1 YIRMUMAH
2 girly
3 Bob and George
4 Phil Likes Tacos
5 Greystone Inn
6 ZacharyParker.com
7 MoonDog
8 Planet Earth (and other tourist traps)
9 Goeber the little green alien
10 The Wandering Ones

New Around Here


Hi everyone!

While I've been reading Comixpedia for a while, I've only started posting on the boards today...

I'm a freelance illustrator who's worked in the RPG/CCG industry for the last 14+ years. Some of my favorite work has been on projects for Deadlands, Shadowrun, Traveller, Conspiracy X, Werewolf, 7th Sea, Shadowfist and Legend Of The Five Rings. Additionally, I've done work for GDW, Steve Jackson Games, ICE, TSR/WoTC, and various d20 publishers.

Recent projects have included Graverobbers From Outer Space (and all of it's sequels) for Z-Man Games and a batch of DemonWars stuff for Fast Forward Entertainment.

These days, though, the majority of my energies are focused on ATHENA VOLTAIRE, a weekly adventure comic that I draw over at Modern Tales. I still feel like a bit of an outsider to the web comics community at large, so I'd appreciate it if you could take a look at the strip and let me know what you think. Here's a link to the most recent episode:

http://www.moderntales.com/series.php?name=athena&view=current

Thanks,

Steve

Bean's Story


Delightfully spinny. I originally cringed -- I am rarely fond of the "and that starting panel was JUST A STORY! On with a TOTALLY DIFFERENT CARTOON!" cop-out, and I was afraid that's where it was going, but then he pulls it out of the fire and delivers this giddy little tale.

Who is...THE MAN WITH THE RINGS?

Meaghan Quinn's entry


I loved the light tone and energy of it, but am having a love/hate relationship with the ending.

Ramadan?

- Matt

You're Hot


More zombies huh? :D Very cute one today, Meaghan.

What Leah Fitzgerald is Reading


Leah Fitzgerald is Executive Editor for Interviews at Comixpedia. Currently she's reading:

1. Wapsi Square by Paul Taylor. The current storyline is coming together and it looks like it's going to be a treat.

2. Bruno by Christopher Baldwin. Don't we all have a Bruno moment now and then?

3. Dieselsweeties by R Stevens. Torpor is in trouble - Rich needs to hurry up and get to it.

4. Scary Go Round by John Allison. It's so cute to see Ryan in trouble - and in love. Da da dum.

5. Homestar Runner by Mike and Matt Chapman. Sure, it's not really a web comic but it cracks me up more consistently than anything else on the web.

Prufrock


I just wanted to say Jesse Clark did a great job on his comic--I wouldn't've associated that bizarre restaurant with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" but the result is pretty damn brilliant.