Need a bump to make it through hump day? Check out these feel good links about creativity, collaboration and celebrating our fangirl selves. News Webcomic Artist Swap Project results are in In the annual events, 12 artists swapped creative duties on their webcomics last week and now you can view the results. Commentary A new…
Comic Shops and Safe Spaces: Why Retailers Are The Real Gatekeepers
Noelle Stevenson’s recent comic about her decision to stop shopping at brick and mortar comic stores has garnered many different reactions from fans. Exasperation that these negative experiences still happen, empathy from those with limited retail choices, and of course those eager to point out that their girlfriend / sister / wives had never been treated…
Webcomics Capsules — funny stuff
We have comedies for all tastes today! Slice of life comedy, to laughable melancholy, and even a “choose your own path” adventure. Enjoy our selection, and happy reading.
Mysteries of the Arcana: An Interview With J. Gray
One of the most attractive things about webcomics is that there are no walls, no glass ceilings, no One True Right Way to do anything. No one kind of story that’s better to tell than another. No Old Guard demographics gatekeepers telling you you’ll sink your readership if you write about that. Anyone can write about…
Kickstarter of the Week: Boston Metaphysical Society
“Before Mulder and Scully, there was Hunter and O’Sullivan.” You’ve probably seen this tagline a lot if you follow Boston Metaphysical Society’s writer Madeleine Holly-Rosing on Twitter and that’s a pretty apt description of the supernatural steampunk adventure comic. I’ve expressed my appreciation for Boston Metaphysical Society’s print comic before so I was overjoyed to…
Webcomic Capsules — school, college and roommates
Today’s Capsules is all about student life. Although I have to say our characters do anything but study–apparently, that’s not interesting material for a webcomic. High school, college, and even kidergarten, surely these students will find something interesting to do, such as solving mysteries like the Bad Machinery girls, fighting “villains” as our cute little…
Perpetual Flux authors talk about vampires, horror and webcomics
Perpetual Flux is a webcomic by Julie Olson and Kat Haynes, running since February 2012. The art catches the eye and invites the reader to enter a horrific story about blood-drinking creatures, death and mystery. The world they constructed is full of fantasy and steampunk references, the plot gets the reader turning pages frantically.
Stories For Not-Christmas
We’ve been Christmassy this week, but we don’t want to neglect those of you who aren’t. So we’ve put together a short (but long, really, if you count the pages) list of some of our favourite completed webcomics. In the mood for a story? Check out our recs! Scary Go Round John Allison John Allison’s…
Webcomics Capsules: orphans, fantasy and unicorns
Welcome to another round of webcomics short reviews! This week we have comedies and mysteries, newbies and long-runners. If you like fantasy, this is for you: disney-esque irony, fairy tales or medieval quests, they are all here. Camp Weedonwantcha KATIE RICE UPDATES: MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS GENRE: SURREAL DRAMEDY The premise of Camp Weedonwantcha is a…
News & Things: Wet Hot Ant-Man Summer
News Paul Rudd in Talks for Ant-Man We may have our Hank Pym! Paul Rudd is in early negotiations for Edgar Wright’s long-gestating Ant-Man film. Lauren Faust on Super Best Friends Forever DC Collectibles talks to Faust about her SBFF (“SssBOOFs!”) character designs. 27 Pieces of Denys Cowan Art Missing Original concept art and comic…
Webcomics Capsules: Killers, queens and space pilots
Welcome to the first edition of the new Webcomics Capsules! We’ll be bringing you regular reviews of complete and ongoing webcomics—everything from art comics to slick romcoms are fair game. This time out we’re all over the map, with horror comics, fantasy, and adorable slice of life gag strips.
Interview with StrangelyKatie
Katie O’Neill, known on the internet as StrangelyKatie, is a cartoonist currently working on the webcomic The Girl From Hell City. In her portfolio there are amazing strong female protagonists, badass princesses, and monster girls. A resident of New Zealand, she’s been sharing her comics for a couple of years now and was able to…