Archive - Mar 2007

Lessons for Webcomics from Short Stories

By: Joel Fagin
Department: Features
Issue: March 2007 Issue

Joel Fagin discusses all of the many lessons webcomics can learn from short stories. Concepts such as effective beginnings, efficient storytelling, and showing not telling. All topped off with an examination of David Willis' reworked beginning to It's Walky. I could tell you more but why don't you click "read more" and I'll show you...

Looking for One Cartoonist for LA TIMES Book Fair at UCLA


Keith Knight The K Chronicles and myself Crying Macho Man are looking for a 3rd cartoonist to share a 10x10 booth for the L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA (April 28-29).

Head Trips


This month Brigid Alverson talks to Evan Hayden and Ryan Sands, the proprietors of the blog Same Hat! Same Hat!! which features original webcomics as well as scanlations of some of the strangest manga you will ever see: gag manga that is more head-scratching than thigh-slapping and horror stories that turn everyday life inside out.

New page up!


New page up at http://www.jonasdiego.com/?p=69

Check it out! :)

March 30th

Webcomics Do Greenfield


Webcomics in Print has a brilliant line-up this week.

The Paranormals: A new webcomic aimed at younger readers


The Paranormals

It's no secret that the vast majority of comics being created these days are aimed at the older audiences. As StayFree! Magazine recently put it:

The Last Battle


As GRAPHIC DETAIL: Zombie draws to a close; The Blurb delivers more of your comic book goodness with Ang Huling Laban (translated as The Last Battle).

Comixpedia Update: Thanks, Links and Bucks


A quick shout-out to our current advertisers: the webcomic Life on the Fringe and the Learn To Draw the Human Figure drawing course. Also be sure to check out the Overman comic and Grant Thomas's website full of comics and music goodness. We also thank all of our Project Wonderful advertisers including current sponsors, the webcomics collective The Chemistry Set, the webcomic For The Hermits, and the awesome t-shirt company, Awesome T-Shirts.

Speaking of collectives, I neglected last month to highlight Kelly Cooper's features on webcomic communities from the archives. Check out parts one and two for a view of webcomic community from when Comixpedia just started in 2003.

Finally - I'll be traveling next week so my posting will be light. A bit of the April issue should go up this weekend but I'll have to regroup on it when I get back. We're still looking for new (or old) reviewers to... well review some webcomics. It's not much, but Comixpedia does pay $10 for a published review. Right now I am looking for reviews of science fiction webcomics (check out our archive of reviews for some examples of what Comixpedia has published in the past). If you're a potential reviewer be sure to email me (xerexes AT comixpedia DOT com) and we'll get you started.

Project Wonderful is NOT Webcomic Welfare


 Project WonderfulI've been seeing posts like this one lately -- griping about Project Wonderful in a way that really isn't constructive criticism or even very realistic.

Introducing the new X8E Comics


A new schedule for X8E Comics - from now on, we will be updating the website every single day, except Sunday.

For those of you who don't know, (99.99% of everybody) X8E Comics productions include:

  • Latoria Agonistes, a humor strip by Cameron and Taylor Nielsen
  • 101 Views of Mount Fuji, a graphic novel about nature, by Cameron Nielsen.

We intend to do more short stories, Views pages, and miscellaneous comics, but the main comics will show up frequently. So please visit our homepage and see what we have to offer.