Death and voting

November 4, 2009 | Posted by Brigid

Election Day may be over, but there’s still time to vote in the Webcomic Readers Choice Awards.

I wrote about the death and afterlife of webcomics in my latest Unbound column at Robot 6.

Erin Polgreen takes a look at women in webcomics at Campus Progress. (Via When Fangirls Attack.)

There’s an interview up with Erika Moen on YouTube (first part is here) in which, Gary Tyrrell assures us (I haven’t watched it yet) there is a very instructive anecdote about a printer accepting a job and then deciding they don’t want to print it after all. Say what you will about webcomics, but everything goes on the Internets.

And thanks also to Gary for unearthing this investigation of a question that has gone unanswered too long: Are those Family Feud surveys for real?

PWCW reports that sci-fi publisher Tor Books has acquired the webcomics serialization rights to two graphic novels, The Imitation Game and Red Light Properties. Also at PWCW: More on Marvel’s iPhone comics and my interview with Mark Waid of Boom! Studios.

A few years ago, Dark Horse published a handful of Harlequin manga—these were Japanese manga versions of the classic romance manga, printed in pink (for younger readers) and purple (for the more mature set). For some reason, they didn’t do well, but now DMP is trying a different tack: They are publishing them online at their eManga online manga site. As DMP specializes in yaoi (which are basically romance novels with two guys as the protagonists) they may have an easier time reaching the target audience. Deb Aoki has more at About.com.

A new storyline is just getting under way at Skin Horse, so it’s as good a time as any to jump in and start reading.

I guess this is the comics version of NaNoWriMo: Some creators are challenging themselves to come up with 30 characters in 30 days.

Something new to look at: School Spirit, an Australian webcomic about schoolchildren and ghosts, apparently. It’s recommended by Ipsilono at ComixTalk for its unique character designs.

The Midnight Cartooner reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Evil Inc. at Digital Strips.

Comics on handhelds: The latest release for Android and iPhones, via Robot Comics, is the British comic Alpha Gods.

Simon Jones, who knows a thing or two about comics (he is the publisher of Icarus Comics, which publishes high-quality ero-manga from Japan) lists the features he would like to see in an e-reader. Coming from someone as knowledgeable as he is in comics production, it’s worth paying attention to.

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