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18:08 / 09.11.07

CameronStewart -- Sin Titulo is great; one of my favorite webcomics and so different from your other stuff. I dunno about the lack of readers, but maybe it's coz it's done in such a compelling, unsettling realist style? Personally, I enjoy it so much more when I read it in chunks; anything less kinda leaves me hanging. It's a longform story, after all.

ALSO: I'm loving The Abominable Charles Christopher. Poker-faced absurdism at its best. And talking bees!

Mark Parsons -- WOW, that's amazing news! Will pick it up when it's out! I've been following Marvel Comics Presents and (at least for the first two issues) I like the Immonens' Hellcat story the best. Looking forward to see what story you and Tom Cohen have cooked up. And with McGuiness art! Fantastic!

18:17 / 09.11.07

Sometimes I fear that the webcomic world is too much like the poetry and short-fiction worlds, where the only people who really care are the ones doing it, so the audience is pretty much only other creators.

COBRAnomicon -- I really don't think this is the general case. It's just that the Internet is rife with content, and webcomics are just one of many online diversions for the regular surfer's enjoyment. It's gotta compete with news sites, Youtube, forums and other stuff.

I think it's just like any other media; the audience chooses its flavor and it's up to creators to do the best they can--both in making good work, and in getting it noticed. Webcomics, IMO, are far from ghettoed and I feel it's a medium that's still evolving to it's full potential.

17:08 / 26.11.07

Calamity Jon Morris (who does the fantastic "Little Batman" and "Jeremy" comics) runs this monthly themed cartoon challenge on his livejournal.

This month's theme was The Music of Tom Waits

I did one on the song What's He Building in There? (clicking takes you to the next page.)

15:06 / 28.04.08

and bump, with a small pimp, apologies and please delete if necc

first AndrewDrillon's stuff is still fantastic and really looking forward to Mr White's Terminus as seen on mindlessones
haven't got Buffalo Roots' yet (sorry!)

I'm in a competition on an American website to pitch a comic series idea. The winner gets a four issue mini-series.

The project is here
http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/Content/Tokyogonzo.html

if you like the look of it, hate the look of the other entries, or just wish to bolster my dying sense of self-worth and would like to support it there are two simple steps

1. Register (free) here
http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/Your_Account/register.html
http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/Your_Account/register.html

2. then every day you remember, up until May 4th click on this link
http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/ForumsPro/viewtopic/t=4103.html
and post 'YES'

You may if you wish customise the YES with a 'goddammit' or an 'indeedy' or whatever takes your fancy but a clear 'YES' is important.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
If you are friendly with geeks and know anyone who may like this then please feel free to pass it on.
As a warning the site is based in Ohio (5 hours behind the UK) and closes to count votes our afternoon, like now-ish.

cheers all

Dan
http://www.comicspace.com/danielcox

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

16:42 / 28.04.08

just so you know - the first link doesn't seem to work - goes to tokyogonzo%b%230 or something like that.

03:35 / 29.04.08

Our MCP McGuiness-drawn Hulkish tale got bumped to issue 9. I have always preferred nines to eights, anyway.

http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?id=8799

Tom and I got to proof/check a b/w pdf of the art, which was our first such experience and was way cool.

07:41 / 29.04.08

thanks King, put in for amend...stray 'space'in the link
http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/Content/Tokyogonzo.html

more about Hulk please, is it an all-ages? continuity?

15:21 / 29.04.08

Been away for quite some time (and never was the most vociferous whilst here), but I'm quietly nosing around some comics fora again.

Not sure how much I qualify as a Barbelither (but I've got more than one post under me belt), however, I'm a comics writer guy, of the recently-released Strangeways: Murder Moon OGN. It's a cowboys and werewolves trip into the haunted frontier west. Maybe a bit afield from the "usual" material discussed over here, but I think I took a different enough tack that Barbelith folks wouldn' t be completely repulsed.

You can read the first chapter online at my website and order the book itself through Diamond or Amazon or any retailers serviced by those.

I'll happily answer any questions readers have on the material, or stand here quietly while you throw rotten banana peels at me in mockery. It's all up to you.

-Matt

17:38 / 29.04.08

The Hulk eight-pager is not a branded all-ages tale, like Marvel Adventures. But there's nothing in it that's unsuitable for an eleven year old kid, IMO. There are lashings (great big honking double page lashings) of hulkitudinous superhyperultraviolence plus some bonus bits of pounding, thumping and smiting thrown in for good measure.

Is it "in continuity?" Hmm: wait-and-see. It's not directly tied to pre-existing or current story elements. Of course, we'd love to tell more short tales that follow on from this initial one. So write to your congressperson, political representative or local mafia don if you would like to see more!

20:03 / 29.04.08

hulkitudinous superhyperultraviolence

that's what we need

i only brought up the c word as i'm only just into WWH and i hear bad things about redness coming

22:20 / 29.04.08

nice to see our boys climbing up the hill

16:21 / 03.06.08

went to No Barcodes at the weekend which was a mini small press con in Camden Market. There's a table there every Saturday for London 'lithers but this was their first big event, had about 45 creators including the rising superstars behind Phonogram and Daniel Merlin Godberry plus chancers like me.
There's another one planned for the end of August and talk of marquee's and bands. Good day with some fantastic work on display.
I have to give a shout out to Ben Powis who's work blew me away with it's beauty and grace. Lovely production values too.
Ben's Site
small pic
splash phoenix

splash phoenix

and a small pimp
Tokyo Gonzo is thru to round 3 of small press idol and getting creamed by something awful about an air-hostess who's also a spy
if you would like to help stop this travesty of affaird details are below the lovely picture

we also have a soundtrack that you can access here
Soundtrack

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if you like the sound of it you can download the first three pages gratis
here

if you really like it and want it to win its own mini-series then all
you need to do is post 'YES' in the thread everyday you remember/can be bothered till June 8th.

You will need to register on the site but it's free, fairly painless
and they're really conscientious about not spamming you

Of course if you hate it there may be something else you'll like,

hopefully some of you wil be into and enjoy it, any feedback welcome
thanks

22:32 / 06.06.08

i've just partnered with Ronin Studios to launch the print version of THE MAJOR in print through Ka-Blam's print-on-demand model.

this will allow me to be able to promote the comic better - getting the word out there is critical now - and with Ronin's support get it into conventions at the upper hemisphere, which due to geographical reasons i can't work out.

but since it's an action comic, and being aware of the still present prejudice agains Black and White action comics, which do you guys as readers think would be best:

- a cheap print comic in B&W?

- or a color comic a wee bit more expensive?

08:12 / 07.06.08

Being a limey we have a long and noble tradition of black and white action that doesn't seem to hurt it. Our normal person (not just comic geek) bookshops are stacked with reprints of black and white war comics and Pat Mills update of Savage is all in b&w.
and lets face it your artist is strong enough to carry it, but maybe it would make a difference in the States, i don't know enough about the small press/indie scene out there
and the place of action comics within it.

not much help there was i?

been reading through btw and it's good splodey stuff man.

11:21 / 07.06.08

I've been doing a comic called 'the Little People' down in creation for a while now...

clicky here for Little People goodness...

14:23 / 07.06.08

thanks, ragged!

this comment by Rantz regarding American audiences and colour here had my spider-sense tingling.

20:06 / 09.06.08

'...'
it's scary that black and white is seen as inferior to colour...has anyone told Los Bros Hernandez?

And Fool, The Little People is glorious beyond glorious, truly, just wonderful

13:28 / 27.07.08

okay, this really is the final pimp...
Tokyo Gonzo got through to the final round and is up against 2 other comics. Whoever sells the most issue 0's wins a 4 issue mini-series.

Useful blurb is below, as always any cooments etc

Against all odds the super pop chaos of Tokyo Gonzo is through to the final round of Dimestore’s Small Press Idol 2008.
The most sales of the 32 page issue 0 gets the winner a four issue mini series.

You can see the submission here
http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/content29.html

Get backstage access here
http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/forum-t14864.html

And buy an issue here
http://www.dimestoredistro.com/tokyogonzo0-p-1035.html

Issues cost $3.50, around £1.70 and if you’re in the UK put Bob Molesworth in as ‘retailer’ when you order you get seriously reduced postage. We’re also offering our famous money back guarantee and will refund you should you not think it is yummy as yummy is.

Competition closes July 31st.

Tokyo Gonzo is written and drawn by Daniel Cox and Bob Molesworth.
http://www.comicspace.com/danielcox
http://www.comicspace.com/roboticfische/

Rachel Evil McCall

01:14 / 23.08.09

I seem to have been writing a webcomic for a few weeks now. It's called Life Among the Unmotivated, and that's what it's about. The art is by Carla Wyzgala, an artist I've met online. She's wonderful.

It's at http://lifeamong.thecomicseries.com

03:38 / 23.08.09

Finally getting moving with some comic book plans!

I have my first 4-issue series in the works at the moment (the first 5 pages are almost done - art by the wonderful J.C. Grande - each issue will be 24 pages) and we will see where it goes from there.

Omnitarium, a dark magic/horror story set in the titular Victorian gaol, seeing a long-thought-dead black magician using the sorrow of the gaol's condemned men to claw his way back into our world.

At present the book will be released as 4 black and white issues, and then collected as a colour book - hopefully over the next year.

I'll post links and the such once more imagery is there.

19:40 / 04.03.10

We don't have "stupid comics question" thread, do we? Yeah, perhaps this one could be repurposed. All in favour?

01:54 / 05.03.10

We do indeed have a stupid comic question thread - right here

And My comic book series' first issue is currently available from here -

Omnitarium from Indyplanet

That is all for now.

10:30 / 05.03.10

Although I myself am exaccerbating it by posting this, may i say;

SHIT THREAD! DIE SHIT THREAD!

13:20 / 05.03.10

Fucks, stop taking my name in vain

13:38 / 05.03.10

quarantine zone simply won't afford the gen-u-ine Barbelith experience, and therefore won't provide us with much of a picture of how any given individual will react to the day to day realities of the board proper.

03:29 / 15.02.13

I'm writing a series now where I am finishing my twelfth issue tonight.Sadly,I only write,but I like to think I write well.I don't want to get into too much detail for cautions sake,but I can tell you it's a crazy genre explosion focused on a Doom Patrol-esque group of misfits and their adventures across time,space,and fiction.My series covers the topics of the nature of fiction,gun/violence culture,myths and cartoon characters,alternate dimensions,freedom of self,Dadaism,depression/suicide,mental illness,love,etc.My work is highly influenced by the works of Morrison,Moore,and Ellis,but everything I write is original.Mapping the cosmos through poetry and multiple-personality lobotomy are just some of the crazy shit that's been going on lately.Sorry if I'm rambling but I honestly haven't a fucking clue what to say and how to say it without droning on for page after detailed page about how much I love this fucking book.It is me in many ways.I'm connected as much as Morrison in The Invisibles,but its as much a part of me as my heart or my ass.I write less than I should,but its hard to manage school,a relationship,and my life with my writing.But this is my third series (first one I think I will actually finish),and I feel I've grown my skills to incredible levels!
Sorry for rambling like a fucking loony.
I know I'm setting my sights high,but I really want this to be published by Vertigo or Image.Do any of you know how to do it?if so could you tell me?

21:08 / 18.06.13

Super-quick addition to the conversation: I made a couple of books recently, over at www.fightcomics.ca

They're free to read online, and you can download 'em, too!

One's called Warm-Up Sessions, and the other one is Fight Comics Volume One. (I'm working on Volume Two.)

Take a look! Links to the stories are at the top of the page, next to links for other info.

12:31 / 29.03.14

this is fun! (the above) http://www.jasonmehmel.com/FIGHTCOMICS/warm-up-sessions/

10:00 / 23.04.14

I'm drawing a book called Bright Spiral, that deals with mysticism, the occult, yoga, etc. It's pretty personal, so it doesn't suffer from being academic.
Bright Spiral

I've always wanted to read a book about black magicians and yogis where the psychological and emotional ramifications of strange and masochistic practices are dealt with, instead of characters just kind of mysteriously having these strange powers.

I'm finishing up the second issue in the next month.

22:33 / 30.04.14

And I just started a kickstarter to fund the printing of issue #2 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1094383965/bright-spiral-issue-1-and-issue-2-printing

22:03 / 02.05.14

chris_judge: "I'm drawing a book called Bright Spiral, that deals with mysticism, the occult, yoga, etc. It's pretty personal, so it doesn't suffer from being academic."

That's pretty spiffy. I queued up a post about the comic and the crowdfunding effort for the Hermetic Library blog … and that should post on May 12th, it looks like.

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