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Beginnings and endings

Time to go: Adam Cadwell has wrapped up his autobiographical webcomic The Everyday, after 200 episodes, and Mark Ellerby has called it quits on his diary comic Ellerbisms after comic number 250. That leaves both those webcomics at a nice, easy to read size for those who want to look at them from the beginning. [...]

The grapes have gone bad—real bad

I saw the solicitation for Corey Lewis’s Seedless a while ago, but I didn’t realize it was a webcomic. Chris Arrant interviews Corey at Newsarama; who knew there was so much to know about grapes?
For those coming late to the indignation party, Larry Cruz has a summary of the Penny Arcade fiasco. Read the comments [...]

Dean Haspiel, Drew Weing, Dan Goldman, and more

Drew Weing’s Set to Sea is one of the most beautiful webcomics around (well, beautiful and violent), and it’s interesting to hear him talk about how he developed his style and his story in this interview at Avoid the Future. (Via Journalista.) Also: Cody Clark of the Somewhere in Utah Daily Herald profiles Howard Tayler, [...]

PR: Studio Foglio inks novel, audio, and graphic novel deals

Kaja and Phil Foglio, the creators of Girl Genius and several other comics, have a stern rule about not letting their intellectual properties sit idle. Not only do they publish Girl Genius as a webcomic and as print compliations, but they also have their older work up on the site, running as webcomics as well, [...]

Scott Kurtz to self-publish PvP

This seems counterintuitive, but he’s not the only one doing it: Scott Kurtz is ending his deal with Image Comics and moving back to self-publishing with the latest print collection of PvP. The PvP monthly comic book will end with issue 45.
“Over the last three years our business has shifted,” says Kurtz. “Sales through brick-and-mortar [...]

Catching up: The big boys go digital

It has been a little quiet around here, mainly because I have been busy in other quarters of the internet, not to mention going to the American Library Association midsummer meeting in Washington, DC. But now I’m back and ready to round up the latest news and links.
One story that broke while I was away [...]

Odds and ends

Good stuff today. At mpd57, Mike Perridge has some questions for Robert Berry, who is working on a webcomics adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Maximo V., creator of the Zuda comic One Hit Knock Out.
The Toronto Star profiles hometown girl Rina Piccolo, a member of Six Chix and the creator of the gag strip [...]

Interviews, reviews, and a Twitterstorm

I interviewed Chris Watkins, the creator of Odori Park, at Robot 6, and Tim O’Shea talked to Kevin Colden, whose mature comic I Rule the Night runs on Zuda.
David Harper talks to Nathan Schreiber, the creator of Power Out, at Multiversity Comics.
Lauren David critiques an iPhone app for reading webcomics (it’s actually an RSS reader) [...]

Left to our own devices: iPad dos and don’ts

Jason Snell reviews the iPad as a comics reader at MacWorld; after covering all the bases, he concludes that it’s an excellent device for reading comics, but the publishers need to step up and do a better job of publishing for it. That point is echoed and amplified in Charles “Zan” Christensen’s article about Apple’s [...]

A brief rant on format and conventions

I caught word this morning of a new webcomic that sounded pretty good and had endorsements from a couple of creators I’m familiar with, so I went over to the website to check it out.
What I saw was a decent enough comic that was rendered virtually unreadable by its website. It lacked all the navigational [...]