R. Stev3ns (not a girl!), creator of Diesel Sweeties and Meredith Gran (a girl!), creator of Octopus Pie! talk to the Googleplex about webcomics.

Scott Kurtz, Brad Guigar and Dave Kellet talk webcomic shop - including some talk about R Stevens recent announcement to stop the newspaper strip of DS.

I've had a chance to get caught up a little bit with My Life in Records, and I'm proud to say that I've just finished penciling my 50th page! Its not necessarily the first 50 pages in sequence. In fact one page I drew is the opening page from Chapter 4, but I was so excited about it when I thumb nailed it, that I had to draw the real thing.

Happy Canada Day everyone! I celebrated by acquiring my first sunburn of the season (FUCK!) and viewing well dressed men in uniform parading in the hot sun. I wore red and white socks, and bought a muffin at Tim Hortons, Canada's Most Patriotic Coffeeshop Ever! Tonight: Fireworks!

As seen on The Venerable Bédé, #2 is now online! Recording these is becoming a highlight of my month, along with seeing how seasoned comics-readers are now starting to discover and explore bédé.

[also posted on shep.ca] [Also posted on MetaFilter] The swingin’ sounds of Spider-Man! After years of searching, Kliph Nesteroff found original reels of the incidental music to the classic Ralph Bakshi Spider-Man cartoon, and has included most of the masters in his podcast. This follows an exhaustive search by Nesteroff to find the music… and turned [...]

Please do yourself the favor of taking four and a half minutes to watch this.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

A little more on the pending Platinum - WOWIO hookup.  Comic Book Resources reports that WOWIO initiated the negotiations at the behest of their balky investors and that Platinum will probably be paying for WOWIO in stock.  Wire stories confirm that negotiations are ongoing (not final) and that the current hope is to concludethe transaction in the third quarter (I read this not as striking a deal in the third quarter but completing the acquisition or merger in the third quarter. Striking the deal -- reaching terms -- would most likely occur very soon).

Greg Carter encourages everyone to read their WOWIO contracts closely.  I second that.  Let me be clear - I don't want to cast aspersions on the people at Platinum -- they are businessmen and while there are allegations of late payments circulating around I don't have any independent confirmation of that right now.  But having had a chance to observe Platinum for awhile now it's pretty clear that their business model is to own and license IP.  Nothing inherently wrong with that but it's different than a publishing business model.  WOWIO seems to be in the business of publishing (digital but still essentially publishing) and Platinum really is not.  If Platinum buys WOWIO my expectation is that WOWIO will shift its business model to owning and licensing IP.

On a semi-related note -- what's going on with Platinum's Comic Book Challenge for this year -- the Platinum website  says to "Come back June 27th and see Who's Next!"  So, um, it's July 1st already...

Here's an actual NEW COMIC I drew!!! That hasn't happened in a while, has it?

Now THERE'S a good artist!

http://www.drunkduck.com/Crossoverlord/index.php?p=425548

NEW Everyone loves the Lizardman

 

The fourth chapter for my comic Everyone Loves the Lizard Man is now up....."Another dead cowboy”.

Reviews and thoughts are welcomed.

Check it out here:

Everyone Loves the Lizard Man