Wed, 1 July 2009  News:* Golden Dragon Girl's comic, The Law of Purple, is only a few updates away from 900 pages. * The Comic Dish Cafe project may be starting up again. * The Daily Cartoonist has an interview with Corey Pandolph on what it's like doing four strips simultaneously. * Joey Manley experiments with various advertising platforms to determine the ROI. * Mark Sable was detained at Los Angeles International Airport for carrying a script for the next issue of his comic, Unthinkable. * Brad Hawkins, creator of a webcomic plugin for Wordpress called stripShow, has released a beta for the next version of it. * KEZ of Winged Wolf Studios explains the difference between a webcomic and a digital comic. * The Floating Lightbulb lists 12 things that hurt your webcomic. * 87-year-old Joseph Deschenes has collected every single Rex Morgan, M.D. strip from the past 61 years. Review: Insanity of Xade Discussion: Consistency in your webcomic Comments[3] |
Wed, 24 June 2009 News:* Modesty is moving to Texas on Thursday and will therefore miss an episode of The Dish next week. * [AoD]'s comic, Hexagon Death Squad, has reached 200 pages! * School Spirit turned 5 years old on June 12. * A comic called Clan of the Cats turned 10 years old on June 20th. * Ping Teo's webcomic blog, Webcomic Finds, has changed its name to Lonely Panel. * MySpace Comic Books is closing due to layoffs at MySpace. * David Reddick is releasing a full-colour print collection of the first 60 strips of his comic, Legend of Bill. * And finally: here's a three-part series on making comics in Flash, by Sandy Debreuil of Crowbar Benson], courtesy of Webcomics.Com: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. * Modesty created a comic guide to using MAX. Review: Denizens! Attention! Discussion: Things every webcomic site should have (and things that we like to see on webcomic sites) Comments[0] |
Wed, 17 June 2009 News: *Logo Contest enters phase 2A. Congrats to JTorch who won the concept phase votes. In this phase people are asked to take JTorch's design and improve upon it/fiddle with the concept. See the forum thread. *Rumours about a UK comic con featuring guests such as Stan Lee, Alan Moore, the cast of Transformers, and others are most likely false. *Drunk Elephant Comics is having a contest: "Best drunk story wins a brand new iPhone 3GS from me, personally, and gets worked into the comic." More information here. *Scott Kurtz' comic, Ding!, has been relaunched as a Sunday feature on his main comic, PVP, at http://www.pvponline.com/. *Krishna Sadasivam of PC Weenies and Ryan Sohmer of Least I Could Do each have a new print collection available: PC Weenies: Rebootus Maximus includes bonus artwork, never-before-seen strips, and more. The first 200 copies sold come with extras, including an autographed sketch. LICD Beginnings: Look at Me! is a collection of the first 30 Least I Could Do Beginnings strips and is limited to 500 copies. *David Gallaher of High Moon, the first Zuda contest winner, is also releasing a print collection, on sale October 7th. *Captain America soon to come back to life. Who didn't see that coming? Review: Nightfall ValleyDiscussion: Setting the mood in your comic. Comments[0] |
Wed, 10 June 2009 NewsThe logo Contest is now in phase 1B, meaning it's time to vote on a concept! Not entirely sure when voting ends but eh. We missed Drawing Day...who knew? Nickelodeon Magazine is shutting it's paper doors. This story is a couple weeks old, but hasn't been mentioned yet on The Dish: Viz has launched a webcomics site. Webcomics in mainstream news: Both the Toronto Sun and The Sudbury Star published this short article about webcomics. Tips for getting your webcomic noticed by Google. Three common mistakes with word balloons. Comic Dish is now on Twitter! Comic Review: The Bend Discussion: Mature Themes in Webcomics |
Thu, 4 June 2009 News:The Halfpixel guys are running a contest to see who can come up with the best mash-up song featuring Brad Guigar laughing. Hexagon Death Squad will be celebrating its first anniversary! A fellow webcomic artist is in financial trouble and is giving out original sketch cards and 100x100 pixel character icons in exchange for donations. More information: Blog Post Fundraiser Page The SpiderForest Webcomic collective is accepting applications for new members. Review: Shepherds Flight Discussion: Supporting characters! Comments[0] |
Wed, 27 May 2009  News: Shayne is an idiot...Sass Studio artbook available here! Comic Dish Logo contest ends soon! Review: Nilpoints Discussion: Building a world for your webcomic. Comments[2] |
Wed, 13 May 2009 Links:http://www.brokenplotdevice.com - Nuclear Hoodie http://www.csiwebcomics.com/ - Comic Strip Improv http://www.comicdish.com/lakewood/ - Lakewood nears 100 strips! http://www.comicdish.com/schoolspirit/ - School spirit! 7 Years! Celebrate! And i managed to lose the link for the random comic review...a first for me. I'm very sure we say it clear enough so you should have no problems transcribing it. Discussion: Line art! Lines in art and the art of lines! Comments[0] |
Wed, 6 May 2009 News: Colour e-ink on the way? maybe! As chapter one comes to a close, Erfworld moves to it's own domain. Ultimate gamers reality TV show...gift from god, or born of the devil? Brad Guiger offers some pearls of wisdom when it comes to dealing with shipping products for your webcomic. I only got this bit of news after the show was recorded but i wanted to mention it at least in the show notes. "Hey, guys! Tamar from Lumia's Kingdom here. Things have been going well for the comic so far and I seem to be maintaining steady readership 39 pages in. But life is getting busier due to many projects and responsibilities, so I have to take a bit of a hiatus for a bit. In the mean time, I'm asking readers and anyone here interested to submit guest comics/filler art while I'm away. For those who need a link: http://lumia.comicdish.com If you have something you want to submit, just shoot me an email." Reviews: www.gg-guys.com Discussions: Webcomics thievery of audiences from print mediums. Comments[0] |
Thu, 30 April 2009 News:Free comic book day! Saturday May 2nd! Review: A monster thing- By Mark Appleyard Discussion: Heroes...heroes...and heroes! Comments[0] |
Wed, 22 April 2009 News:XKCD is making a print book. Article covered in the New York times. Rumiko Takahashi’s new manga series will be released in weekly installments simultaneously in the US and Japan. The US release will be available as a free webcomic. Reviews: lakewoodthecomic.com Interview: Droakir with more info on whats in store for CD Comments[0] |
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