Archive - Aug 2007

August 30th

Chapter 3 of the Vanguard Concludes


Chapter 3 of the Vanguard concludes with page 24, were the team now faces a threat that may be even greater than the Warbot....to be continued in approximately 2 weeks.

August 29th

5TH STONE PART 5 LAUNCHED!


MIKE CAMPEAU`S 5TH STONE PART 5 LAUNCHED! 5TH STONE/FIFTHSTONE FOLLOW THE TALE....... http://fifthstone.smackjeeves.com

Comic Theory Video


I'm excited to say that my entire talk from the Visual and Iconic Languages Conference has now been posted online! I've embedded the video on my site

Mega Sci-Fi Crossover at Starslip Crisis


I'm doing a brand-new Saturday-only storyline in full color that I hope gets a good turnout from the sci-fi webcomics crowd. It takes place in the year 3438, before the events of Starslip Crisis. Vanderbeam has been captain of the Fuseli for a few years, and has recently taken on Cutter Edgewise, a former pirate, as the navigator of the finest starship art museum in the galaxy.

Okay, who cares about the setup. It's going to feature interwebcomic space battles. It's one huge fanboy crossover in the vein of "who would win -- the Enterprise or a Star Destroyer?"

If you have a sci-fi webcomic with a spaceship in it, you can submit your ship and crew to be involved! The form to fill out is on the guide page here. Read the terms, and join in! And check back every Saturday to see the plot developments!

August 28th

Shades - when plot threads collide!


Go to ShadesIf you've been following the online graphic novel Shades for any length of time, you'll have met a wide assortment of characters by now - Doug the WW2 fighter pilot, Boo the First Century Warrior Queen and, of course, the prehistoric Shaman.


Well, in today's instalment at Broken Voice Comics, you can finally see all three together. Good Heavens - is that the sound of converging plot threads I can hear?

Your Comic Is Your Therapy


Every once in a while, I feel like punching someone in the face. A crazy person with a chicken intheir hands will approach me on the subway and demand I give up my seat for her, because it’s their “special” seat. Other times, the nice people at my cable company’s tech support will keep asking me to wait another week before sending the signal, which doesn’t come a week later, which prompts me to call, which leads the nice people to ask me to wait another week, in a never ending cycle.

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Interviewed on The Gigcast


Just incase you missed it, last week The Gigcast talked with Bill Roundy and Jen Babcock (of Cest la Vie), curators at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, About the new exhibit The Infinite Canvas and The art of the Webcomic.

Check it out. The interview and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art!

Webcomics Anonymous Opens


Webcomics Anonymous has been swimming around quietly in the facebook group bay for quite some time now but finally it's launched its very first webcomic magazine, available to read, sit at home with and ponder at.

August 27th

Authorship killed The Family Circus For Me


I will never look at Snoopy the same way again. Or Calvin and Hobbes, or even Garfield. They have all been ruined for me. Not ruined, but rather changed. Disfigured, you could say.

Convention


It seems that about 75% of people who saw the splash screen left without doing anything else. Maybe some were downloading SVG viewing software but I rather felt that this was an unacceptable level. Therefore I've redesigned this page so it's hopefully cooler and more user friendly. Let me know what you think!

I've also been putting a lot of links to the forums on the site, in the hope of actually getting people to post something other than viagra adverts there. I think I've done this with all the HTML pages so now I'll start of the SVG files.