Archive - Aug 1, 2003

Another Comic Ripper Program


There's a wide range of opinions on whether these "image ripper" programs are good or bad for the artist and webcomic in question. We had a lengthy discussion before on the copyright issues.

This time we've found an add-on to the popular Postpn backend system that lifts comics strips from a number of on and offline comic publications. Here's it in action on the creator's homepage.

Free Fast Food Fonts


Via Boing Boing comes a link to Da Font's corporate-like fonts. Get 'em before they get sued!

Marv Albert Says: NBAddict Tastes Better Than My Ex-Girlfriend


It seems to me that comics tackling sports is somewhat rare. NBAddict by Richard Rempel is a weekly webcomic poking fun at the NBA, basketball and its players. Right now it has some kind of pseudo-Pulp Fiction plot going on but if you dig through the archives there are plenty of stand-alone comics worth checking out.

Where Have All the Short Story Comics Gone? Young Girls Have Picked Them, Everyone


Over at Ninthart, Alex Dueben laments the disappearance of the self-contained short comic book. (Dueben is zeroing in on something smaller than a graphic novel, able to stand apart from an ongoing serial, essentially the comic equivalent of the literary short story). Perhaps he hasn't checked out Modern Tales Longplay?

Death of A Comics Syndicate Salesman


Okay not death exactly, but the slow, painfully analog rituals of the newspaper feature syndicate sales market. An interesting story about selling comics to newspapers caught by Dirk Deppey today.