Archive - Oct 12, 2005

Rebooting Comixpedia, Part 5: Genres and Formats?


I want to adopt a more systematic method of describing webcomics for Comixpedia. Part of this is needed for a forthcoming library of creators for Comixpedia. My first take is to adopt a list of genres and formats so that each comic can be tagged with both.

Here's how I would break down formats:
- Series (unlimited)
- Limited Series (published in serialized format)
- Novella (published as a complete webcomic)
- Short Story (published as a complete webcomic)

Genres could be pretty discrete or as simple as splitting up comedy and drama. But what do you think? How would you set up your ideal taxonomy for webcomics and their creators? Your comments will definitely help me with this effort.

Angriest Rice Cooker hits 100 comics!


After 99 comics using one image, Connor Moran's The Angriest Rice Cooker in the World celebrated it's 100th comic with something a little different on Wednesday.

The rice cooker returns Thursday and will continue to appear daily Monday-Friday.

Drunk Duck Webhost Down


Free webcomic host Drunk Duck has been down for some time now as a result of problems at its webhost Geekside Hosting. From posts at the Buzzcomix forum it appears that Drunk Duck admin Volte6 has been unable to contact the hosting company at all.

Mini-Wednesday News Post


Over at Goats, Jon Rosenberg explains how important the current storyline "Infinite Typewriters" is to him and the evolution of his webcomic.

NY2123 is one of the first original graphic novels I've seen created especially for the PSP. (You can read it on the web but the size of the images is definitely a better fit for the smaller PSP screen.) Two chapters are posted so far. It's set in a post-disaster New York and sprinkled liberally with a number of standard cyberpunk cliches, but the art is very clean and effective and in chapter 2 when the story focuses on Julius, the pacing of the tale becomes much more effective.

Killboredom.com interviews Nate Piekos.

Random Thought Dept: I've been reading Winnie-the-Pooh stories to my kids recently (the original ones) and it strikes me - does anyone else think of Achewood as a twisted version of that?