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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
While walking around Emerald City Comicon, I was struck by the large number of webcomic creators who had plushies for sale. It seemed like all the big name comics (and some upcoming creators!) had a fuzzy critter for sale. They were all cute, so I had to take a few of them home: Several comic …
The Stumptown Comic Arts Award 2012 ballot is live now! Vote for your favorites. Also the schedule of panels and workshops for Stumptown 2012 is up. Make your choices carefully. There’s a lot of good stuff this year going on simultaneously.
Digital Comics purveyor Graphic.ly has exited the comics market according to their latest press email. While they plan to continue supporting the comics their customers have already bought from them, they are no longer going to sell new comics. Additionally, they are going to close down their iPad, iPhone and Android stores as well as …
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 …
