December 2011
17 posts
Comix Talk for December 28, 2011 →
Thanks to Scholastic for sending the all ages Scooby-Doo: A Merry Scary Holiday which the x-kids enjoyed. It has a pretty Scooby-Dooish plot (and the villian winds up having a Gary-like…
cleaning up; doing a crossword; drinking new coffee #goodtobeadadster
Comix Talk for December 26, 2011 →
Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. I’m an equal opportunity holidayist this year — I’ll take whatever I can get.
NOT COMICS: This Is My Jam is a kind of hyper-focused twitter-lite thing…
When I first saw http://t.co/PEd4tMh5 I thought I was going to hear some RUN DMC tunes
Comix Talk for Monday, December 19, 2011 →
I did an interview with the Webcomics Beacon podcast that was posted last week. It was about Comix Talk stuff which, listening to it, mostly sounds like a bunch of projects I don’t have time for…
RT @jonrosenberg: It is never never never a good idea to read general webcomic threads on popular forums. I need to tattoo that on my fo …
“Intro / Madness” by Prince Buster is my new jam. Listen: http://t.co/FNPkPk9a #thisismyjam
RT @faitherinhicks: Friends With Boys passed a million pageviews yesterday. So glad people are reading the comic. I hope they buy it, to …
RT @ryanqnorth: Now what you hear is not a test, I’m rapping to the beat! And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna talk about the ki …
“Grey Matter” by Oingo Boingo is my new jam. http://t.co/FNPkPk9a #thisismyjam
How the hell have I tweeted 4000+ times already. Oh yeah, with meaningless meta-comments like this one…
Saw Walk the Moon last month — not sure why http://t.co/ddUKqYhm doesn’t include artist/song info in tweets
Classico is a classic alrighty! 2 minutes to go
RT @davekellett: College cartoonists in the US/Mex/Can: You have til Dec 15 to enter the $5,000 Jay Kennedy cartooning scholarship: http …
“@cameronMstewart: DRAWING BLOCK” read this thinking ooo I bet it will be a lovely drawin of a block
RT @cwgabriel: Ready player one is a fun read. It’s the book equivalent of a band yelling the name of the city they are performing in.
RT @mattforsythe: The good side of Tumblr: good stuff goes viral with great ease. Downside: attribution and context are lost.
November 2011
11 posts
likes Party At Ground Zero by Fishbone on Ping http://t.co/HRA2Jq9W #iTunes
RT @jemale: The advance copies of the printed Dicebox Book 1 have arrived. I need to have a little lie down. After this shot of bourbon.
The Muppets was great. And my kids liked it too. Mnanama!
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HYPE: Have I plugged Ethan Nicolle’s new webcomic Bearmageddon yet? Because it would be unbearable if I hadn’t…
DUDES IN LONG UNDERWEAR: This series of art…
Consider this day thanked. Stuffed, thanked, and sleepy actually.
Comix Talk for Tuesday, November 22, 2011 →
Two days of posting in a row? Something must be up…
iWEBCOMICS: The Beat points to INK, a digital anthology, which is a pretty good idea. This one is created by the students and faculty of the…
Take my comic experiment! →
Comic readers! I have a comic experiment that needs your help! This survey will help us prepare our next study looking at how the brain comprehends comics, and your help would be greatly…
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RT @drhastings: This essay by @malki on a 5:00 news show is incredible. http://t.co/LuMS9Wc1 I might even say it’s *fresh*
October 2011
6 posts
Comix Talk for Friday, September 7, 2011 →
Awhile back we reviewed a comic book from the UK collective, Whores of Mensa — well they’re back with a new project, The Strumpet, which will include UK and US artists. This time they’re…
Congrats to Jennie Breeden and Obby →
Congrats to Jennie Breeden (she gave the engagement away in a video blog awhile ago but here it is in comic form)!
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One Full Year of Chris Cantrell's The Deadlys →
Just in time for Halloween, the spooky and hilarious comic The Deadlys turns one year old! To celebrate, creator Chris Cantrell is holding contests and offering special content during the…
Comix Talk for Tuesday, October 4, 2011 →
I don’t read MTV Geek regularly so I kind of lost track of it but Sean Kleefeld is up to 31 installments in his column on webcomics over there. As the kids don’t actually say anymore, “props” for…
The Wormworld Saga on the iPad →
The iPad app for the digital comic Daniel Lieske’s The Wormworld Saga is now available for free in the iTunes App Store. An Android tablet version is currently in development. The…
Comix Talk for Friday, September 30, 2011 →
BEATONMANIA: NPR interviews Kate Beaton about her new book. And it’s a pretty good interview too!
iWEBCOMIC: ICv2 covers Amazon’s announcement of $9.99 digital comic books for the…
September 2011
10 posts
Comix Talk for Wednesday, September 28, 2011 →
iWEBCOMIC: Sometime today Amazon is going to introduce a new color Kindle. While earlier rumors speculated that it would be an ipad competitor, it now sounds like it’ll be much closer to…
The Last Mortician by Dean Haspiel and Tim Hall →
The Last Mortician is coming to Tor.com in October. Great story concept - looks like something Haspiel is going to knock out of the park too.
Return of the Makeshift →
Jim Zubkavich is dropping all kinds of hints that a reboot/remake/re-something of his Makeshift Miracle comic is on the way next week.
Comix Talk for Tuesday, September 20, 2011 →
Did anyone miss me? ….. …. <cue the crickets!> I’ve started throwing up shorter quicker links to all thing interesting (to me!) at another site I’m in the process of refurbishing (just look…
A review of the webcomic (and comic book) Free Mars which is a fun, seedy punk band on the run, NYC on Mars adventure: http://t.co/9KGmsnRa
Mars Needs Music! →
Free Mars is a comic book written by Dave Pauwels and arted by Nicolas R. Giacondino. It’s also a webcomic. Mars is a blank template that authors have used to write stories about its…
Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50... →
First Second Books has a great anthology in Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists which matches amazing cartoonists with classic nursery rhymes. And…
SPX SPX SPX!!! →
So lots of stories about this weekend’s SPX convention in the news. Mike Rhode interviewed SPX Director Warren Bernard and TCJ also had an interview with Bernard that focused on the new…
It's a Month for Conventions →
I’ll be wandering around SPX on Sunday (can’t make Saturday this year) with no official duties except seeing as much cool comics as possible. DC Comics blogger Mike Rhode has interviews…
RT @davegibbons90: Hands on with Wacom Inkling http://t.co/lryU1rn
August 2011
13 posts
Amulet 4: The Last Council by Kazu Kibuishi →
The Last Council, the fourth book of the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi is truly its Empire Strikes Back moment. The tone is much darker, things go badly for our heroes and a fairly…
Video: I’ve already posted and pledged on this one but if you haven’t please check it out - drawnblog: http://t.co/acmLtej
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WatchI’ve already posted and pledged on this one but if you haven’t please check it out -
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Yes, I know. Kickstarter projects are popping up like pimples on a nervous teenager these days, and I know many of us are starting to feel the pinch of constantly being asked to donate to this project or that, particularly while the economy is tanking. Regardless, this one sounds pretty...
