Archive for the 'Web Comics' Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
British cartoonist Nabiel Kanan has started a new comic serial on his website, called About Charlotte. It’s too soon to actually say anything about the story (only one strip is available).
I have high hopes, though - I have good memories of his Exit and The Drowners graphic novels. Somehow Kanan has always been able to publish top notch material without getting too much attention. Maybe this web serial will change that, and more people will discover his great comics.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Foxtrot’s Bill Amend goes all referential in his latest comic, dissing / applauding famous webcomics PvP, Penny Arcade, xkcd and The Joy Of Tech (I had all but forgotten about that last one).
(via PvPOnline)
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
In an exclusive preview to Smith Magazine’s current Next Door Neighbor feature, New York Magazine’s culture and entertainment blog, Vulture, is currently running a quite exclusive collaboration by Harvey Pekar and Rick Veitch from that series. For one week only, afterwards it gets published on Smith.
(again, thanks to Heidi for this quite exciting bit of news)
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Socks was the official Clinton Cat, and Barney still is the Bush administration’s First Dog. Ashtonishing Space Thrills creator Steve Conley picked up both presidential pets, along with Rudi Giulliani’s pet rat, and promoted them to characters in his political satire, Socks and Barney.
The animals star in a daily strip that closely follows the comings and goings in the race for the presidency. Conley started the strip on election day 2007 and hopes to run it until the big day in november. Some of the subjects are a bit too arcane for foreigners, but for the most part it’s nice to hear a sensible voice for once.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
“Mr. Is is every real estate practitioner who has struggled to keep up with the fast pace of Internet marketing while also doing all the traditional things sellers still expect; who has been challenged by buyers with outdated or inaccurate information gathered from real estate Websites; who has paid for leads — customers — that are rightly their own. Mr. Is is you.”
Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc., of Washington DC, a the real estate listing service, is launching its own superhero, Mr. Is. More info : Inman News.
It remains to be seen whether or not this marketing campaign will be a success, with comments like “MRIS needs to stop wasting money on this and needs to improve the products such as Matrix. Matrix has so many flaws and crashing so much. For the fees that we pay MRIS we as Realtors deserve better.”
(Thanks, Mike)
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Mike Smith draws his diary strip (or rather, his “Illustrated Diary Cartoon SketchBlog Picture Thing”) Blogshank on the pages of an actual planner (and quite often on the right days as well). I like his melting of subject and form, and also how you can see how he gradually finds a consistent tone and rhythm for his story.
(via Drawn!)
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Roddenberry.com, the website of Roddenberry Comunications (as in Gene Roddenberry, purveyor of “smart, meaningful, multimedia entertainment for people around the world”) has added not one but two weekly comics to their content line up : Rod & Barry, the comical adventures of two quite cliché-looking aliens, and Gene’s Journal, about a young boy with a penchant for science fiction.
Both comics do look and sound alike, which is no wonder because they are both created by David Reddick, a Paws inc. collaborator by day and freelance cartoonist extraordinaire by night. Reddick previously did Trek Life for Startrek.com, about trekker fandom, and has recently also kickstarted a sword-and-sorcery spoof called Legend Of Bill, both of which are also very good fun. Read all of his comics, and more at his website.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
ShaBot 6000 by Ben Baruch (pseudonym for William Levin) chronicles the daily life of a Jewish robot and his mentor and their daily struggle to find “logic in a religion that does not compute”. It’s quite hilarious, it’s like the Jetsons meet Woody Allen.
(Comic © 2004-2008 by William Levin)
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Croatian cartoonist Darko Macan’s weekly web comic, Mišo, got dropped last week after his client decided to drop all contracts with freelancers. Considering he’s a nice guy, who can draw a mile (he worked for Dark Horse, DC and Marvel in the past), I’d very much like to help him. So, if anybody of you ephemerists has some space left in your publications or websites, why not give Mišo a shot ?
To be honest, I don’t read Croatian myself (I’m waiting for the translation), but the art is quite funny, and from what I hear, it’s a pretty satirical tale as well.
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