Man, in years ComixTalk is like a tween now... OMG! 2008 We had an interview with Evan Nichols of the webcomic Dr. Eldritch . Plus, wow! Jon Morris' comic, Star Wars Versus The Batman . And Bomb Shelter's Webcomic Idol contest was down to the final three . (Doesn't look like Webcomic Idol is happening this year...) 2007 Von Allan's The Road To God Knows began its serialization over at Girlamatic ....
Have we been quoting him too much? Anyway, whatever, a video of a sand painting prompts McCloud to ponder the decade about to pass: We’re getting close to the end of a decade and a lot of people have been trying to sum up the experience. Short of putting “B.O.B.” on endless repeat, I think a [...]
Hey folks! The much-anticipated documentary The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the Changing Face of Comics , is now in stock at The Beguiling. We just got it in so unfortunately I haven't seen it myself yet, but I've heard good things and Jeff Smith himself seems pretty pleased with it. The 76 minute documentary is an extensive profile on Smith including interviews and other footage, and also includes...
TOOLS Scott McCloud has a post (and comment thread) on the ratio of comic to controls (navigatin) to crap (everything else) on the screen. BOOKS An interview with Randall Munroe on the unusual publishing strategy for his first book, xkcd, Volume 0 . JUSTIFY MY HYPE Rebecca Dart illustrates an old murder ballad . Everyone is linking to this today and with good reason - Dart's imagination and the linework...
Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics and Zot!, has written an interesting post up on comics criticism — specifically, looking at negative reviews. For myself, I always consider reviews useful—even the hatchet jobs. It makes my heart sink a little when I hear other artists dismiss all reviews as irrelevant to their process. A common claim [...]
The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE, and the Changing Face of Comics Starring: Jeff Smith and Scott McCloud Director: Ken Mills, Mills James Productions, 2009 Rating: Not Rated Format: DVD Jeff Smith never intended his Bone series to be read by children. His inspiration came from Moby Dick and Huck Finn and Star Wars -- he wanted to make something really big, something that started simple and then darkened...
Scott McCloud links to iCents.net today -- a micropayments-like set-up that is centered around creating "paid links". I poked around the site this morning and to be honest I'm not entirely sure what it does that isn't already out there in various apps and software bits. It (thankfully) doesn't set up another payment system (it's relying largely on paypal and other similar stuff) -- it looks...
Back when I was a kid, I used to have the exact same reaction every time I saw a movie. Without fail, I would walk out of the theater and turn to my Mom, or Dad, or one of my sisters, and say, "That was the BEST MOVIE I have EVER seen!!!" It was as though the act of watching a movie was SO enjoyable, SO pleasurable, that it overloaded my mind and wiped out any knowledge of other movies I...
§ Robert Venditti, creator of the Surrogates, has a blog! Here he shares some concept art for his next project, The Homeland Directive, with art by Mike Huddleston. § Scott McCloud has a little bit more on the influence of the silent GI JOE issue, with some interesting comments that cast more light on [...]
Did I mention SPX is this weekend? Other stories of note: TECHNOLOGY Brigid Alverson reviews various iPhone apps for comics . Gizmodo covers leaked information on Microsoft's new tablet computer . HOLLYWOOD Newsarama has a story on the webcomic Wide Awake and that Jarrod Feliciano and Mirjana Novkovic at Do-Over Productions recently optioned the film rights to it. Do-Over Productions on its facebook...
In a nutshell: does scrolling matter? Especially for dramatic or other longer form webcomics'* I've been going back and forth about this. A part of me is arguing that it does and that I should make sure my formatting for the comic pages are about 800px by 600px. But I work in regular comic book format so my pages are all vertically aligned. To make a comic fit that horizontal dimension means that...
As a change of pace, I thought it would be nice to take a look at something written about webcomics but one of sequential art’s most influential voices: Scott McCloud. McCloud’s thoughts on webcomics, which were written nine years ago, often get a bad rep because he was wrong on the micropayments issue. (Chief antagonist: Scott Kurtz, unsurprisingly.) That’s unfair; no one can really...
Okay a very brief linkage of some of the points of interest we saw during yesterday’s recovery time: § Douglas Wolk reviewed > Asterios Polyp for the NY Times, in a review Scott McCloud deemed “insightful.” § This Booth Babe business is pretty annoying. § Here’s that letter by Chuck Rozanski everyone is talking about. § i09 [...]
In early 1977, Joost Swarte defines what is probably the most important comics art style to have come out of Europe. No-one had a name for it before: the ligne claire. The Clear Line. The style of Herge, of Tintin. I’m sure you can picture it. The style where all extraneous lines are eliminated, and only the lines that do work remain. A single line of exquisite clarity and control, producing...
Okay, you’ve been badgered by the Green Lantern and Thor announcements which I won’t duplicate here… Pigs of the Industry reviewed the creators of Zuda ’s instant winner Bottle of Awesome and Peiz covered Ruby while Tangents went in depth on Red String . MPD57 looked at 9th Year and Original Wonders interviews Tyler James . MPD57 also looked at Bloody Pulp and posted July’s...
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