RIP Joe Kubert
It was announced today that legendary comics creator Joe Kubert has passed away at the age of 85. He’s best known for creating Sergeant Rock, Tor, and of course the Silver Age Hawkman. Comics will miss him.
Podcast anyone?
We (CTO Jamey Sharp and I) got interviewed by Comics Coast to Coast this week and it’s now posted on their site. Go have a listen. You’ll find it here. The audio is a little rough at the beginning because we were each on our respective cell phones, but once I went to another room …
Get Your Gravatar!
You may have seen a lot of these icons floating around on reading lists. Or you have one as your user profile pic. These are gravatars. Gravatar.com is a site that lets you set up one avatar icon that gets used by all kinds of sites all over the rest of the web. It’s a …
Ch-ch-ch-changes…
First of all, I’ve decided this page is going to get a lot more blog-y and a lot less news-y. News is hard and a ton of it is redundant. Blogs let me talk more directly to the readers without the requirement of editorial distance and that annoying objectivity thing. So, without further ado let’s …
Comic Rocket Indexes ComicFury
If you don’t know by now, Comic Rocket has done a deal with webcomics host ComicFury that lets Comic Rocket index all of Fury’s nearly 6,300 listings. This puts Comic Rocket on a path towards the mystical goal of 10,000 comics served to our community. Here’s the press release we sent out: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: …
Comic Con Webcomic Schedules
Who and What in Webcomics to See at Comic Con 2012 San Diego Comic Con is the premiere comic convention bar none and every year they have some of the best programming like panels and seminars about comics or making comics. They also have a zillion comic artists and creators at tables in Artists Alley …
You Should Kickstart That!
In order to see new and ongoing crowd-funded projects, click here. ** If you don’t already know what Kickstarter is, you will soon because some creative project you know or love will be trying to get funded that way. Kickstarter is a so-called crowd funding company that allows the general public to invest in creative …
The Dreamland of Scott Christian Sava
If you like fantasy comics and you haven’t yet read The Dreamland Chronicles, you’re missing out. TDC is an award-winning all ages webcomic created by Scott Christian Sava. The tale’s been unfolding online since 2006 and is already over 1,200 pages long with 17 of its 24 planned chapters nearly complete. The story follows the …
A Stumptown Sampler: Some Things to See and Buy
The Stumptown Comics Fest 2012 is coming up this weekend (April 28th & 29th, 2012). The show began in Portland, Oregon back in 2004 when several local cartoonists decided to take matters into their own hands to create a convention for themselves. Attendance has continued to increase year over year culminating in a larger room …
Axe Cop Optioned By Hollywood
And lo! More concrete evidence of Hollywood beginning to mine webcomics for content: Axe Cop has been optioned by Fox for a late night animation block. Axe Cop is exactly the sort of property a rival net or channel might want to use for competition against Adult Swim to nail down the 18-24 male demographic. …