Archive - Jun 19, 2008

The Gigcast #147


JT and Scott talk Webcomics,  Christian Ellis Shallow Thoughts and Music from The Fump LInks: The GigcastA Nightgig Studios Production - http://www.nightgig.comwww.thegigcast.comHave News or a Comment?  Want to tell JT and Scott they are full of it?E-mail: gigcast@nightgig.comOne of the Farpoint Media family of shows - www.farpointmedia.net,Released under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial No-Derivs 2.5 license

I live.


Really. Back on track soon......

don't be a dope


This video by Paul and Joe DeGeorge has some of my artwork in it!

Garfield experimentalism


Apparently we're upon the 30th anniversary of Jim Davis' Garfield strip. As a ten year old I was pretty obsessed with the Garfield books, and can probably mark meeting Jim Davis at the ABA as a highlight of my fourth grade life. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I've gotten about seven emails from people linking to the Garfield Minus Garfield strips, which I first saw a few years ago even. I was always

yummy


I am at a loss as to where to go or where to look: Can anyone recommend a good place to pick your own strawberries, that isn't too far from Halifax/Dartmouth?

Webcomic Wire - 6/19/08


Drawn from sources all over the world wide web… Webcomics Weekly #38 talks about the Orphan Works Bill. The Harvey Award nominees are out. ComixTalk catches up with Dylan Meconis, creator of Bite Me! And currently working on Family Man. ComixTalk interviews Kilo Burrell of SPQR Blues. Webcomic Overlook gives a one punch review of Castle Vidcons. In correction to [...]

For those who think I'm a bit daft for thinking the govt. habitually and maliciously lies to us.


Interesting story from Rueters:
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian air force planes dropped a 25-kg (55-lb) sack of cement on a suburban Moscow home last week while seeding clouds to prevent rain from spoiling a holiday, Russian media said on Tuesday.

Incredible Hulk Review-Mild Spoilers


Last week Sunday, the Mrs. and I took her Dad (and step-mom, brother and nephew) out to the movies for Father’s Day and we saw the Hulk. I’ll start by saying that in hindsight, the 2003 Ang Lee Incrdible Hulk was a headscratcher.  All daddy-angst, giant poodle, pseudo-Absorbing Man mess that it was (though Jennifer Connelly [...]

Webcomics Working Overtime


Harvey Awards

AWARDS
The 2008 Harvey Award nominations are out.  The nominees for BEST ON-LINE COMIC are:

MILESTONES
The Daily Cartoonist has just about everything on the web you'd want to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jim Davis' Garfield.

TOOLS
Drawn! links to a video of Mark Criley showing how to draw "manga-style" hands.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Kate Beaton distills the Anthony-Liz romance from For Better Or For Worse. (h/t FLEEPN)

The Bear Trap - a comic about the meltdown of Bear Stearns (h/t Journalista!)

Raw Materials - an ongoing science comic by Larry Gonick who is the award-winning author of “The Cartoon History of the Universe,” “The Cartoon History of the Modern World,” and Cartoon Guides to Physics, Statistics, and other scientific subjects.

Noted musicologist and sometimes webcomicker Johnny A reviews the leaked tracks of the someday-may-come GnR album "Chinese Democracy".

The Glamorous Life


Take a peek behind closed doors. For your entertainment: The newest installment of Growing has landed. Read it.