Archive - Sep 7, 2006

Our Trio heads home to Oleander


Come see how our three heroes met and the adventures that they had on their way home to Oleander. Read how Mordacai finds out her companions have ties to powerful people within the kingdom Oleander...Watch as this powers one of her weaknesses....Money!

 

www.studioshonen.com

Hound's Home is back... hopefully.


My favorite comic strip ever, Hound's Home, is updating again! (Though not quite with new comics yet... those are supposed to come next week.) I pray that this return is a permanent return.

Yes, this is the sort of thing I pray about.

Artists as Editors I


I've been thinking about my last post, and the comments it garnered recently.

One of the threads seemed to be, to quote DAJB, "comics are not like movies." And he's right. Comics and movies are different mediums. That doesn't stop people from making comparisons though. I actually despise it when people blather on about how much better the book was than the movie - but here i'm willing to make an exception. Comics and movies are, at a fundemental level, similar. Books just have words, photography just has pictures. (Yes, there are exceptions - roll with it.) But comics and movies both have pictures and words. To a certain extent, i think that makes them prone to a bit of comparison.

SketchBattle Applicants Wanted!


SketchBattle has announced that they are now taking applications for Season 6.

Although SketchBattle has received a lot of flack in the past, the site is now under new ownership and management (FlamingKinkos of All Signs Point to Yes and Zach of SMBC) and they're hoping to begin to grow back to their former popularity and standards.

Baltimore Comic-Con


 Creator of AbandonThe Baltimore Comic-con is this weekend - doors open at 10 AM. Saturday night at 8:30 PM is the Harvey Awards.

[UPDATE: The Comics Reporter has a guide to this convention worth checking out.]

Artists alley features several webcomic creators including:

  • Rob Balder, Partially Clips
  • Chris Impink, Fragile Gravity

and the Webcomic Hotness Pavillion which features:

  • Greg Carter & Brooke Spangler
  • Christie Johnson
  • Jennie Breeden
  • Danielle Corsetto
  • James Hatton
  • Mara Maguire & Bill Ellis
  • Sara-Fred Rickert & Kristy Bourgeois
  • Garth Graham
  • Matt Rawson & Evan Keeling

Oooh... Pretty Monitor Tablet!


Gizmodo has the scoop on the Adesso Cyber Tablet M17, which is a 17-inch monitor that doubles as a tablet for a Mac or PC. Only $1699....

Rethinking Tagging


 Scott Kurtz and his wife Angela.Table of Malcontents catches Scott Kurtz's announcement that his new website for PvP will limit "tagging" to a small editorial group because during the beta period of public tagging, tags were both less then informative and abused by specific individuals.

Similarly, I've turned off the "open" approach to creating topics here at Comixpedia to save on server resources, but I might have done so for the pure uselessness of many of the topics created during the last six months. (No offenses folks!) Tagging is an interesting idea but I don't think it's quite ready for prime time.