Betsy Streeter is Californian science fiction writer, artist, and comic creator. She is the perfect storm of creativity and I can’t urge you enough to check out her ongoing webcomic Neptune Road. This is a science fiction mystery set on Neptune, an experimental colonization effort that has met with repeated complications. The planet is still…
Webcomics Statistics — A Deeper Look into the Webcomics Scene
Webcomics have changed and are continually changing the game. Everyone with an internet connection and basic computer skills can publish their comics in the web. Everyone. “Is it good work?” and “will it be successful?” are entirely different matters, but if you fulfill those two prerequisites (and if you’re reading this, you do), you can showcase your work to…
Interview with Trevor Mueller from Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter
Kids love comic books. Kids love to learn. Introducing comic books to the classroom is a sure-fire way to hold students’ interest and help them retain the information being taught. There are so many ways to incorporate comics into education, and Reading With Pictures is an organization devoted to tackling this idea. Their main focus is…
Webcomics Capsules: The Genie Grants Your Wish
Webcomics Capsules is all about short webcomics reviews—more like recommendations, actually. See what our writers are enjoying around the web, choose your favorites and get to reading! Ripples by Hayley Powers Unknown genre Updates Wednesdays Ripples is a new webcomic, with just six pages published. The main theme is a mystery at this point, but…
Wonder Woman in Sensation Comics
This fall DC Comics will be unveiling a new anthology devoted to Wonder Woman. This comic series will debut on August 20th, titled Sensation Comics. The stories will first be published in an online format, with a printed version projected for an October release date. The contributors range the gamut from Gail Simone to Caitlin…
Football Comics! Bad Machinery V.1
Bad Machinery Volume One: The Case of the Team Spirit. Football! A comic with football in it. The World Cup’s still on! Bad Machinery is a comic from John Allison, who should be hailed even more loudly than he already is (I mean, I assume that he is? I take it for granted) for the wicked,…
Interview: Courtney Hahn, Co-Creator of Podunk
Courtney Hahn is doing excellent work in all age comics. She’s been webcomicing, drawing, and guest-posting like a boss. Her illustrations are bright, happy, and clever. Even the ideas behind the comics make me smile. Like Uni-puppy. It’s a puppy unicorn. There is everything to love about that. I met Courtney at last weekend’s Kids…
Interview: Magical Intern Pretty Risa!
Magical Girls! We love them! Of course we do! And with a very senshi summer looming, this is the perfect time to look at some current magical girl output. What’s your favourite? What do you wish we would look at? Be it manga, OEL, webcomics or fantastic hardback printed-to-last graphic novels, we (and you!) should…
Webcomics Capsules — Horror, Feminism and Sex Toys
Webcomics Capsules is a conglomerate of short webcomics reviews. What’s on the menu today? Supernatural horror, feminist superheroics, slice of life storytelling, and sex toys. What a mix! The Fox Sister Christina Strain and Jayd Aït-Kaci Supernatural horror Updates: Thursdays (coming back soon) Yun Hee was nine when she woke up to find her sister…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Creepy Webcomics Bonanza!
Web-Comic Broodhollow Blends the Cute and the Creepy Larry Cruz at Robot 6 looks at Kris Staub’s webcomic Broodhollow which manages to be both adorable and one of the scariest comics being published right now. The first complete chapter of this webcomic is up here to catch up on the series and follow along with the on-going…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Web Comics Galore!
Smut Peddler Creator’s Comic Poorcraft to be Serialized as Free Webcomic C. Spike Trotman, the creator behind big Kickstarter successes SmutPeddler and Sleep of Reason, has just started serializing her book Poorcraft as a webcomic. Poorcraft is all about the tricks to getting by on a low income and has lots of practical advice for those out there making less than…
Readership Response and its Effect on Creators
Reading webcomics is a neat experience, both like and unlike reading comics on paper. Instead of waiting for Wednesday for one week’s worth of monthly comics, many webcomics update weekly, multiple times a week, or even daily, giving a reader a much shortened wait time. Instead of waiting for a graphic novel, a reader can…