Archive - 2008

October 13th

Saying Hi


My usual blog is at www.donnabarr.blogspot.com.  it's the best place to go for updates, and is becoming more or less my regular web page, including shopping card.

Most Read: Final Version


Back in 2003-2004, ComixTALK ran a series of articles under the banner of "Most Read" trying to work through how to measure the respective audience shares of various webcomics.  More recently, T Campbell borrowed the idea to generate a list of such webcomics for the former version of webcomics.com.

I've pulled together one more Most Read list, this time relying fairly heavily on Project Wonderful data.  Mostly though I went to the trouble of compiling this to point out how someone else could do a better job of it in the future.

The Asylumantics Turns 7 - Contest Time!


On October 31st the little asylum that shouldn't have is turning seven and to celebrate I'm holding an art contest.  Simply submit a guest comic / art before October 31st for a chance to win an Asylumantics book gift pack valued at $32.99.

For more details, check out the contest page on the website.

Make Comics Online With Comicbrush


Comic Brush

Tim Demeter is a cartoonist and the editor* of the anthology site, Graphic Smash.  More recently he's been the Editor-in-Chief of Clickwheel, a site that publishes comics for the iPhone/iPod format.  Now he's leading the roll out of Comicbrush, a website designed for anyone to create comics from it's online toolset. 

I've gotten a chance to play around with ComicBrush since it was in beta and it's a pretty fun tool to use.  It's certainly not going to replace the toolset of many skilled and successful creators but it should be a solid platform for a lot of people with an interest in making comics to do so easily and quickly and post them into a community that can provide feedback.

Sometimes Life Works Hard to Imitate Art


I got the following email from reader Norman Baker:

So there I was, playing laser tag with a bunch of people. Mostly kids in their early teens, but a few people my age and a couple families, too. Since most of the people teamed up with their friends; logic says that it would be the best strategy for me, too. (Turns out that I did way better as a lone agent, second round, but oh well.)

Mujer, the second Split Lip 2-Year Anniversary Comic


The second Split Lip story for this month is now live at the site. “Mujer,” written by Sam Costello and drawn by Sami Makkonen, is the story of the murders of young women and Juarez, Mexico, and a superstition that could change them.

The blog contest is still running, too, and you can still enter to win free comics. Details at the site.