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Webcomics You Should Be Reading: ‘Darths & Droids’
Though Star Wars fandom is full of disagreements and divisions, most of us fanboys are in agreement about a few things: Jedi, lightsabers and force powers are awesome. Anything Timothy Zahn writes is...
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‘Schlock Mercenary: The Teraport Wars’ Coming in October
Schlock Mercenary: The Teraport Wars is now available for pre-order. The Teraport Wars is the fourth collection of Schlock Mercenary strips to make it into publication; in true George Lucas style, Book...
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The Theory of Webcomics: What are Webcomics?
Help me Wikipedia, you’re my only hope! What are webcomics? Oh, okay. They’re comics published on the web. That was easy. What else have we got? Over 18,000 exist, few are self-sustaining, blah blah...
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Webcomics You Should Be Reading: ‘Player Vs. Player’
It started as just a gaming comic, but expanded to much, much more. It’s one of the most popular independent webcomics out there. It’s spawned books, cartoons, shirts, and even plush toys. It’s won an...
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The Theory of Webcomics: Could DRM Kill Your Webcomic?
The idea that the march of technology is too slow and could kill a baby art form is nothing new. Scott Kurtz wrote “Could Success Kill Your Webcomic?” in 2002, as he was then concerned with the...
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Willis Proposes via Comic
David Willis, author of Shortpacked! and Joyce and Walky proposed to Maggie Weidner, his girlfriend of four years, using not just a single strip, but a week-long storyline of Shortpacked! Weidner, also...
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The World of Webcomics Celebrates Ryan Estrada Day
Guest comics are a tool of the trade in webcomics: The host needs a day off, the guest wants to get his work out there. A small comic can get a huge boost to traffic with a link and endorsement from a...
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Webcomics You Should Be Reading: ‘Something*Positive’
Randy Milholland is a very, very angry man. He distills that anger into the purest form of hate known to man, which he uses as ink. And with that ink, he effects a marvelous transformation of rage into...
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The Theory of Webcomics: How Webcomics Make Money
The question is how webcomics make money. The answer is: Most of them don’t, but the ones that do usually rely on numerous sources. These typically include advertisements on the site, donations from...
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Former Syndicated Cartoonist Steps into the World of Webcomics
Rob Cabrera, best known as the author of United Media-syndicated comic Silo Roberts has started a new independent strip inspired by this year’s presidential campaign. Super Tuesday plays the standard...
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‘Least I Could Do’ Volume Five Available for Pre-Order
Ryan Sohmer, creator of the webcomic Least I Could Do, announced that the fifth collection of his strip, titled Yield To Me, is available for pre-order. Four other collections are also available,...
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‘Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog’ Headed for TV
Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog may soon be coming to television. The strip was optioned by producer Radical Sheep Productions in May 2007, and recently announced a deal with TVO to...
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Webcomics You Should Be Reading: ‘Wonderella’
What if Wonder Woman was a total jerkass? Not evil, or a supervillain, or the crazy Nazi-lady from Whom Gods Destroy, but just a self-centered, self-absorbed jerk? Justin Pierce answers that question,...
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The Theory of Webcomics: Superstar Theory
In my last entry, I discussed a number of the ways that webcomics make money and mentioned that only a few of the thousands of webcomic artists are able to actually do so. There are a number of factors...
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Webcomics You Should Be Reading: Order of the Stick
Roleplaying games are a rich forum for comic material, whether you’re riffing on the setting or the game system itself. Typically, this involves have “players” and the characters they play, and either...
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Webcomics You Should Be Reading: Ctrl-Alt-Del
Years ago, I was at a comic convention where Jimmy Palmiotti told a story about the most vocal fan he ever encountered: A fellow who apparently was constantly sending letters and posting to message...
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The Theory of Webcomics: The Daily Grind
The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge is a competition between online comic artists to see who can maintain the longest Monday to Friday update schedule, following a strict set of rules. Each artist lays...
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Saturday was 24-Hour Comic Day! Did you celebrate?
24 Hour Comics Day is an annual challenge for cartoonists to produce a 24-page comic book written, drawn, and completed in 24 consecutive hours. The event was founded in 2004 by Nat Gertler, prolific...
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‘Ctrl-Alt-Del’ Joins Forces with Blind Ferret Entertainment to Produce Books
As recently announced, Blind Ferret Entertainment will be taking Tim Buckley’s self-published Ctrl+Alt+Del collections onto the mass market. The three self-published volumes are currently available...
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Webcomics You Should Have Read: Minus
One of the most endearing features of Calvin and Hobbes was Calvin’s overactive imagination, which created amazing scenarios of space battles, time travel, and talking tigers. What if it wasn’t all in...
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The Theory of Webcomics: Dead Comic, Living Archives
I’m a chronic re-reader/re-player/re-watcher. Combine having a lousy memory with a love of the familiar, and you’ll find someone who loves re-reading old comics, re-playing his old collection of Super...
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Webcomics You Should Be Reading: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
I recommended this comic to a friend of mine. She wrote back that her office’s content filter blocked it as "tasteless and offensive." This is an entirely accurate statement about Saturday Morning...
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The Theory of Webcomics: A DC Wiki?
A few weeks ago, I discussed the usefulness of active, available archives for webcomics. Archives provide huge amounts of free content to draw in new readers; and they prevent continuity lockout by...
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I-Con 28: ‘Under the Radar: Comics You’re Missing’
Among the exciting adventures at I-Con was a panel titled "Under the Radar: Comics You’re Missing." The panelists (Carl Fink, Bob Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, Andy Weir, Bernie Hou, and me) and attendees...
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