MoCCA’s Winter/Spring Comics and Animation Classes

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (from the ComixScholars List) MoCCA’s Winter/Spring Comics and Animation Classes Start February 7th! NEW YORK (January 18, 2012) – The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA – is proud to announce the winter/spring offerings from its Adult Education Department, organized and headed by Senior Vice-President of Education, Danny Fingeroth: The [...]

Random WordPress Comic

Have you ever wanted to have a random comic button on your website? For example, you could include a random post link in one of your updates or create a button in your WordPress site’s sidebar. Perhaps your theme offers this function but this will allow you to put it wherever you wish. This can [...]

The Webcomic Factory Launches As the Mayo Turns

From the Webcomic Factory: The Webcomic Factory launched their first photo webcomic, As The Mayo Turns. The webcomic is a soap opera starring the condiments at St. Freon’s Hospital. “This is going to be completely new territory for the Webcomic Factory,” says As the Mayor Turns creator, Tony DiGerolamo. “Photo webcomics are an important part [...]

Just a quick note

Hi everyone. Despite any rumors you may have heard, I haven’t dropped entirely off the face of the earth. I do have a number of posts started but nothing is finished enough to publish. The hiatus is all because of good things happening for me. I recently took on a part time Print & Copy [...]

400 EPISODES OF TROOPS OF DOOM

This week, the Troops of Doom comic will be reaching 400 episodes. To celebrate there will be multiple “Become a Troop of Doom!” contests where readers can have an Imperial or Cobra trooper named after them and become a recurring character in the comic. Check it out for a laugh. Troops of Doom is a [...]

Body and Soul Webcomic review

What Did I Learn? “People looked at me with pity…they handed me this disease…I can’t beat this.” That’s how this sidescrolling webcomic, Body & Soul by Matthew Greene, starts. To round out our first impression, a small narration box tells us this is Anezka’s home in Prague. The images are almost abstract and every click [...]

Comic News Tidbits

I hope you took a chance to get some Steve Rude art. I hope things are better now for him. The name colors my impression of him; I used to work with a guy (also) named Rude who was pretty much the zealous definition of the word. In other news, you should be reading ComixTalk [...]

November’s Comic Tips

This post on Digital Webbing talked about leading the eye and this one talked about scene to scene transitions. Joumana of Mallak offered up some great comic making tips plus tips on offset printing and some thoughts about how she dealt with translation printings. (You can also get a look into her process at the [...]

Comic Credit

Once upon a time, if you were an artists, you studied under a master and plagiarized their style, as directed. They called the shots and took all the credit. You weren’t allowed to do things much your way until you became a master artist yourself. These days, though, no one is beholden to anyone else [...]

November Webcomic reviews

Tangents gave a shout out to Girl Genius, Weregeek abd

Mouse Guard Fall 1152 & Winter 1152 review

mouseguard-winter What Did I Learn? Hopefully, you’re already familiar with Mouse Guard by David Peterson. If not, the basic setup is that mice have carved out an area that’s fairly safe from predators. There are various mouse settlements which Guard Mice patrol the paths and territory between using tiny swords and other hand weapons. These aren’t [...]

Rebus webcomic review

What Did I Learn? In this comic by Dan Hess, Roy the up and coming Mercenary gets teamed up with Rick, who just graduated from Sports Broadcasting School, and Emily the Data Specialist. They work for the Rebus Mercenarial Services, traveling the universe to accomplish various missions. By the end of chapter one, this newly [...]