"It wasn’t just Modern Tales. Keenspot, already established as the big name in webcomics sites, had members out in full force at that Comic-Con. A little group called Pants Press, consisting of a half-dozen Disney-loving teenage girls and one grown man, met in person for the first time after finding each other online, and the Pants Press girls wove in and out of the Comic-Con crowds in a blur of watercolors and cosplay fabric. Every member of that group is now a major talent in comics or animation or both. That summer, it was certain for the first time that webcomics were going to be a thing. A good thing. " -- As pioneering webcomics host Modern Tales has shut down,
Narbonic creator Shaenon Garrity
reminisces about how Joey Manley got it all started, back in 2001-2002
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on Apr 19, 2013 -
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The adventures of
Wonderdick,
Toronto's beloved urbanist blogger as he explores the miracles of North America's most exciting and largest metropolitian landscape (outside the USA or Mexico), now available at
Cartoon Machine. Also available, the hilarious hijinks of
Pair Bond, a twentysomething couple caught in the grip of a dying relationship, and the
Time Professor, sending his young assistant on a murder spree through history to save the future, or so he says. All from the febrile brain of Mike Winters, who occassionally also does
more serious comics about the grim struggle in in 1942 between von Paulus 6th Army and the courageous Russian defenders of his beloved hometown, Edmonton.
posted by MartinWisse
on Apr 4, 2013 -
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How Steve Rogers copes with being woken up into a world he never made, seventy years after being frozen in ice:
diary comics. (SLTMBLR)
posted by MartinWisse
on Dec 23, 2012 -
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"
I have a confession to make. I think I'm in friend-love with you. I don't want to date you or even make out with you. Because that would be weird. I just so desperately want for you to think that I am this super-awesome person because I think
you are a super-awesome person" -- A single link webcomic by Yumi Sakugawa.
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on Dec 17, 2012 -
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"I’ve since discovered that dropping in on Steve Ditko unannounced is a pretty common practice. That does’t make me feel any better. I felt gross for having invaded someone’s privacy – there is zero excuse – but the fact that people do this as a sort of known event is even worse. I haven’t pulled that on Ditko since and I never will, but I suppose we’re all free to disrupt the man just to satiate our curiosity, or “just cuz”, as if he were a landmark attraction and not a person." -- On Ditko's eightyfifth birthday, cartoonist Michael Fiffe
talks about Steve Ditko, the influence Ditko has had on his own comics and the incredibly gracious way in which he corresponded with him as a young clueless fan.
posted by MartinWisse
on Nov 2, 2012 -
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In the 1952 presidential race,
The Crimson decided neither General Dwight D. Eisenhower nor Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson were good enough to endorse, so the paper went for a certain possum from Okefenokee Swamp:
Pogo. Buttons were made, campaign was waged and Pogo's creator, Walt Kelly was invited to give a speech. When he was delayed coming in to Harvard from the airport,
riots broke out.
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on Oct 21, 2012 -
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Comics critics groupblog
The Hooded Utilitarian ("a pundit in every panopticon") turned five in September and to celebrate ran a month long
festival of hate, "in which contributors will write about what they believe is the worst comic ever — or the most overrated, or the one they personally hate the most, as the case may be."
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on Oct 3, 2012 -
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"Among all who read Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories during the ‘40s and ‘50s, there was one common term for the unknown artist who drew the Donald Duck stories. Comics readers and comics fans all over the U.S. independently applied the same term to him. To fans in Ohio, California, Arkansas and Pennsylvania, he was 'The Good Artist.' His name was never signed to his work, and his publishers—until the early ‘60s—never revealed his name to his public, though many of us wrote (unforwarded) fan letters. His name, as we finally learned, is Carl Barks." How two determined fans found out
who the Good Duck Artist was.
posted by MartinWisse
on Jul 27, 2012 -
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It's queen Elizabeth II's official birthday today and she celebrated by making Grant Morrison, writer of
St Swithins Day, in which the protagonist sets out to kill Maggie Thatcher, as well as
The New Adventures of Hitler, depicting Hitlers adventures in Liverpool being serenaded by Morrisey,
a member of the Order of the British Empire.
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posted by MartinWisse
on Jun 16, 2012 -
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