Archive - Apr 2004

April 30th

Webcomic Fans Please Check Out Webcomicfan.com


Webcomic Fan is a site devoted to, yep, webcomics. It has a link to Comixpedia with a thoughtful description:

To describe The Kuna Melba News as "The CNN of Kuna, Idaho" would be misleading. While that description is accurate in the sense that of all the news periodicals published in Kuna, Idaho, the Kuna Melba News is arguably the best, it misleads the reader in the sense that the mental image one gets when one imagines CNN -- a giant, sprawling network of buildings scattered across the world, staffed by thousands -- is a far, far cry from the reality of the humble offices of the Kuna Melba News. In the same way, I am reluctant to describe Comixpedia as "The CNN of Webcomics."

There's more - go check out the rest of their links and reviews pages.

More Modern Tales


Reading up on MT again. A new series from Gene Yang is awfully good. Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order is a great blend of ideas, relationships and science fiction/fantasy. All four main characters are well drawn (both in terms of art and narrative).

WCCA Awards This Year?


What's going on with the WCCAs this year?

Jesus Christ Action!


I thought this was pretty funny.

"I've got the Holy Grail! I'm goin' live forever!"

Hey Ya! Video Mash of Video Game Characters


While not yet approaching Black Album remix status, I have noticed a trend of using Outkast's Hey Ya to create silly videos. This one throws in a bunch of game characters. (You mya have already seen this as it was linked to by Metafilter.

Not as good as the Peanuts take on Hey Ya, but not bad.

UPDATE: It looks like United Media actually sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of the Peanuts video - he's removed all of it from his site.

Drunkduck, a mirror


I have noticed that a lot of people use drunkduck as a mirror to their comic. Does anyone know what the Drunkduck crew think of this?
It appears that many create a mirror to get the benefits of the DD community, but still keeps another, main, site for the comic as well, possibly because of the larger freedom in designing the site.
I have myself considered creating a mirror of my comic or move it entirely to DD, but since it is only a few pages at present it is not something I've desided to do yet at least.

April 29th

Hi


Thought I'd stop in and introduce myself. Hi.

I've had a webcomic up for forever but it never dawned on me to join a community that specializes in it. I don't maintain the comic anymore, but I suppose people still get a kick out of it. I've also got a
24 hr comic up from last weekend. I guess that counts as a web comic too.

Reading Dirk Deppey's First Gig as Editor of TCJ


Well I got a chance to skim and read TCJ the last couple of nights. Excellant interview with Drew Weing - lots of space devoted to a promising artist. Nice to see Weing give some credit to the web as a platform for comics.

Clever Link Box to Graphic Smash on Neilalien


Neilalien came up with a clever way to link to Graphic Smash - he took the GS RSS feed and using Feedroll set up a little box on his site that links to the two most recently updated GS comics. Clever!