There were a few things going on in online comics over the last several weeks that we didn’t cover and they bear mentioning. Goats is coming back! During his Kickstarter campaign last week, Jonathan Rosenberg, the creator of Goats promised he’d bring the suspended strip back on a weekly basis. The Kickstarter raised $55,348 of …
The Emerald City Comicon is this weekend (March 30th, 31st and April 1st) at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. The show promises to be the biggest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. Comic artists from all over the country (and world) will be there, including some of the most prominent names in …
Today the National Cartoonists Society announced the nominees for its Reuben Awards. This is the first year that the awards have included an online comics category. It’s a pretty big step for webcomics to be recognized by their print peers, one that is long overdue. Tom Richmond, the president of the NCS, discussed the addition …
Gary Tyrrell over at the webcomics commentary site Fleen has taken a look at a few significant (and successful) webcomics Kickstarter campaigns to see if there were any correlations between them. Although his sample size is extremely small, and he left out Order of the Stick as an outlier, there are two important takeaways. I’ll …
Leading digital comics provider comiXology has upgraded their iOS app with a new high definition version. Called CMX-HD, the app is made to work for the better retina display of the new iPad 3. Additionally, the app has added social features such as sharing via Facebook or Twitter and even by email. It will be …
Comic Mix is having a fun March Madness inspired Webcomics Tournament to determine the best webcomics. Comics are divided into brackets and paired off for voting with the winner of each pair advancing on to the next stage. The voting has already reached a second round so some of the matches have non-obvious outcomes. Tough …
WonderCon starts today (Friday 3/15/12) at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. Several prominent webcomics creators will be there among the hundreds of comics professionals attending. You can see Ethan Nicolle (AxeCop), Frank Gibson & Becky Dreistadt (Tiny Kitten Teeth) and a shared table with Kel McDonald (Sorcery 101) and Evan Dahm of (Rice …
MTV Geek has just launched a free online version of Kody Chamberlain and Joshua Hale Fialkov’s Punks comic. There is also a great interview with the creators on the site. MTV Geek has a ton of comics content already online and it’s all pretty much free so check it out. Punks is a humor strip …
Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury may be censored again; this time for lampooning womens’ rights issues in Texas. Several papers are thinking about pulling his strips for this upcoming week. In a compromise move, Utah’s Standard-Examiner has chosen to run repeat strips in the physical paper, but with a note sending people to the online version. This …
Sad but true that legendary French comic artist Jean Giraud Moebius has died at the age of 73. His influence on comics and culture has been felt worldwide. His designs helped shape the look of movies like Blade Runner and Alien. His comic works such as Incal and Blueberry are fresh and unique to this …
