Starting this month Comic Rocket is posting our Top 15 Most Visited Webcomics List, employing an actual rocket scientist to the task. While a large part of our methodology is secret sauce, it involves linear regression and traffic estimates based on real world data of many sorts. We’ve gathered information on the most popular and …
It was only a matter of time. We knew Apple was the sleeping giant of digital comics and when they awoke we thought the world would shake. Well, they have come to, sort of. The iBooks part of the iTunes store has graphic novels now. The world is unshaken. But will it remain that way? …
If you’ve seen our Google+ or Facebook feeds you’ll notice we’re following webcomics collective Act-i-vate. It’s mostly because they’re some long-time comic pros and webcomic-ers led by veteran Dean Haspiel. But also because they’ve become more um…active…in their promotions lately. Most importantly though they have good comics. Sam & Lilah is one of them. The …
Tony Cliff’s beautifully-drawn comic Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant concluded yesterday. While I would love to see where these characters go next, Cliff wrapped up the story in a very satisfying way. Now would be a great time to read this 160-page comic, while waiting for whatever its creator comes up with next… Update: …
Imagine a gothic mash up of Sandman and Harry Potter and you have Tom Siddell’s Gunnerkrigg Court, a fantasy comic set on the fictional grounds of a large boarding school of the same name. The main character is a young student named Antimony Carver whose parents have a past entwined with the school’s history. Antimony …
Let this be a lesson to all aspiring webcomics creators: This will never happen to you. If it makes you feel any better you can feel as though Rich Burlew has won the lottery. Or if you want to feel worse figure that Rich worked his butt off for eight-plus years cultivating a community from …
This is the beginning of an ongoing series spotlighting serial serialists–creators that can’t stop making comics. It is not uncommon for artists and writers to start a digital series and stop. Doing regular comic work on a schedule is difficult at best: it rarely pays for itself, you have to market yourself, plus unless and …
Sam Logan, creator of the webcomic “Sam and Fuzzy”, announced yesterday that the magazines that provided half his income have folded. As a result, he’s going full-time as a webcomic artist. Details are in the news section of the most recent strip. Personally, I think Sam and Fuzzy is hugely underappreciated. The comic appears to …
Congratulations to Rich Burlew and Order of the Stick, whose Kickstarter campaign passed one million dollars in pledges yesterday! You have until Tuesday, February 21st, if you want to join the fun. Edit: Kickstarter has now posted an interview with Rich Burlew.
(Originally appearing in TRIPWIRE #55 published August, 2011. Reprinted with permission.) When I told the internet recently that I was researching the 25-year history of online comics, people tried to correct me on the typo. That was no typo: webcomics really have been around that long. As someone who’s been drawing webcomics for over ten …
