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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

It sort of looks like "School of World" (http://schoolofworld.tumblr.com/) is gearing up for an ending, which I'll be sad about.

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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Abyssal Squid posted:

Oh gently caress oh poo poo, the Monster Killers domain expired and Archive.org didn't save every page or any of the images. I hope someone more diligent than me archived it somewhere, I thought I'd saved Towers but apparently I just remembered how to get to the page that had it. I LOVE TOWER >:]

oh god no :(

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Pyroclastic posted:

In the past few years, I've backed 54 book printings between Kickstarter and IGG, largely webcomic printings with some anthologies and special projects (like To Be or Not To Be) thrown in. Of those, 33 have delivered the book. The other 21 are mostly recent, and still in their release window.


Yeah, I'm in a similar position, the only comics kickstarter I've backed that has been a total bust so far (out of dozens) it K.Thor Jensen's.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

I hope everybody in the greater DC area is going to SPX this weekend (I have to give it a miss this year, but I'm going to MICE next month).

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

'The Bloody Footprint' won the Ignatz last night for 'best Online comic', it's here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/05/opinion/private-lives-the-bloody-footprint.html

The full shortlist:

quote:

The Bloody Footprint by Lilli Carre
Carriers by Lauren Weinstein : http://nautil.us/blog/carriers-a-webcomic-on-health-luck-and-life
Mom Body by Rebecca Roher : http://gutsmagazine.ca/featured/comic
O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti : http://ohumanstar.com
Witchy by Ariel Ries : http://www.witchycomic.com

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Brainamp posted:

Didn't one of its ads pretty much spell out that this was gonna happen?

I don't look at ads, and I am giving this plot development the stink-eye.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

ConanThe3rd posted:

I meant why from a writing perspective, not a narative one.

Not sure I'm following.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

djw175 posted:


Snarlbear is a story about a girl's adventure through a dangerous and colorful land. Along the way she makes a few friends and picks up the basics of monster punching. Very colorful and striking art..

I am a big fan of the Snarlbear art and coloring.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

A Wizard of Goatse posted:


in the same vein Stonebreaker is p rad

I read and liked 'Over the Wall' but haven't gotten my head into the reading Stonebreaker gear yet. I should fix that.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Don't forget the Vattu2 kickstarter is live : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evandahm/vattu-the-sword-and-the-sacrament

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Friendly reminder the Vattu kickstarter is still going: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evandahm/vattu-the-sword-and-the-sacrament/description

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

The Fleen guy reports that today is the last day to buy the collected run of the original "Little Dee" strip: https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=CB (apparently this is part of the deal to get a new book published?)

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

ConanThe3rd posted:

I get that and I get she's stressed/pissed but she's attacking civilians (yes, annoying, pushy, civilians but still, ultimately, powerless civilians) with her powers which absolutely crosses the line.

I interpreted it as she was just powering up as a 'hey, back off' display.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

ConanThe3rd posted:

The problem is that the last chapter has been split between her moping about life to herself and her being passive aggressive to anyone within earshot with no one to fill out the now barren cast list to provide any sort of levity from that.

I think it's reasonable for a character to be depressed and upset when three of her friends have just died.

Pavlov posted:

So, is this like an attempt to make a 'dark and gritty' magic girl anime? Because the more I think about that the more it seems like a dumb idea.


Personally my favorite "magical girl" comic going on right now and wow did I never expect to type those words is Phoenix Flair : http://phoenixflaircomic.tumblr.com/post/122318744747/i-want-to-kill-the-person-i-used-to-be-page-1

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Y'all aren't talking about ghost-bustering comics and not mentioning American Spirits, right? http://americanspirits.webcomic.ws

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

ConanThe3rd posted:

I would read a comic about Jesus suplexing people.

I want to say I've seen that a few times and the novelty wears off pretty quickly.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Plethora posted:

I honestly don't remember that in Narnia.

That was the entirety of the Tash stuff.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Pavlov posted:

It's really just Abraham religions that tend to kick up a fuss. Elements from practically all other world religions get mixed up into fiction without much of a problem. That might just have to do with western audiences though.

Lot of Judeo-Christian stuff going into the melting pot in Japanese games/anime/manga.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Hogge Wild posted:

If you can't read something because the writer has some questionable views you don't agree with, then you'll have to stick to reading only your own Tumblr.

Doug TenNapel's pretty vile tho.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Rangpur posted:

You could have read TenNapel's work without divining his bigoted politics.

It doesn't seem to be online anymore, but he had a webcomic a few years ago that had the main character getting mad about, I think, gay marriage right out of the blue.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003


Also published by Fanta: http://www.fantagraphics.com/megahex/

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

I don't know if it already got posted in this thread but here's a short completed thing from the person who does Tove : http://hinderween.tumblr.com/post/132111364473/page-1

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Hogge Wild posted:

But I can't remember anyone who made some webcomics and then was later hired to make something else because of their webcomic fame.

Off the top of my head, I think there's a bunch of people who went from webcomics to the Adventure Time empire (either writing tie-in comics, like Meredith Gran, or working on the show itself like Steve Wolfhard and Jesse Moynihan), the Three Word Phrase guy is working on one of those cartoon shows too, there are all those Ryan North things, the McNinja guy is writing for Marvel, the 'Help Us, Great Warrior' lady is doing those for a traditional publisher now (does that count?), and Jillian Tamaki put out 'This One Summer'

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Here's a short thing I found : http://www.chasing-comics.com/dewegvanmijnvader/ that was pretty good.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

I've found Colleen Frakes' "Skookum": http://www.colleenfrakes.com/post/117314732566/pg-1-a-beginning and it's a pretty good comic that's got one complete chapter up (100-ish pages).

And also it's Colleen Frakes, so you know it's going to be good.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Onean posted:

I actually just stumbled across this a little bit ago. I didn't like the skimpy outfits for the MC at first, but the character and comic is pretty cute and cool so I got over it fast.

Yeah the costuming is regrettable but there's infinitely more heart and charm in a single Cassiopeia Quinn strip than in the entirety of the Dresden Codak run, so I can deal with the cheesecake.

One or both of the authors also did Question Duck: http://questionduck.smackjeeves.com

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Tollymain posted:

really though it's not like theres some weird reason why people go from one fandom to another. i mean, do any of y'all read just one webcomic and plan to disappear from the internet when it ends/you lose interest/whatever? there's only so many people to go around between popular things, overlap is gonna happen

It's also not as if people ever gather in a place on the internet to talk about a common interest and in the process talk about and get interested in other things as well.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Cat Rackham book coming out in September: http://wolfhard.tumblr.com/post/142805280556/you-might-have-heard-the-collected-cat-rackham-is

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Oxxidation posted:

I'm staring at that rear end and tilting my head like a dog presented with a math problem.

What do you think it symbolizes.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

It absolutely wasn't my thing, but even if Shiga does nothing else there'll always be "Bookhunter".

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Tendales posted:

The biggest drawback to rss feeds over bookmarks is that if some random comic's feed breaks, I won't notice until years later when I wonder why such and such hasn't updated lately.

Newsblur will add a red "!" if the feed is broken, but you have to look in the "list of subscribed feeds" panel.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

majormonotone posted:

it's really easy to tell them apart though and band vs band doesn't fall into this category

like mocking dresden codak or I guess even QC for this makes sense but bringing it up in the context of something by a queer creator just seems bizarre

Other LGBT characters include Atomic Domme and Zero.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

In light of recent Rat Queen events, Spike Trotman sent out a call for webcomics with tough ladies and got a lot of suggestions: https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/732458382746091520 some of which are "eh" but there's a lot of winners in there.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Was Jack the one with the 'I'm not afraid of no rolly coaster' edit.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Sara Goetter (who also does Boozle) has a new irregularly-updated comic: http://behindthescenescomic.tumblr.com

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

majormonotone posted:

Trying to get through my backlog of webcomics to read, just finished Poppy O'Possum (it's very good). Next on my list are Monster Pulse, Demon Street, and Helvetica. Anyone else have any suggestions

Phoenix Flair.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Jake Wyatt (of Necropolis fame) did a thing with an art school or something and these are the results:

http://www.fayalatas.com/#!necropolis/ey2el
http://www.junebang.com/necropolis/

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Hell yeah I'm a backer!

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Renaissance Robot posted:

I've never really understood that complaint, but then I also enjoy Josh Lesnick's almost caricaturish scribbles so :shrug:

I think Lesnick's another example of what you said a couple days ago:

Renaissance Robot posted:

even though the visual aspect of ONE's art is unquestionably loving awful, his panel layout and scene construction etc. are top notch

and yeah the art's scribbly but it's scribbly with intent and skill, and it's things like as Oxxidation says "[his] good grasp of anatomy and action lines" which make the comic.

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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Also I saw Foglio at a con a few years ago and, so god help me, my only thought was "oh, that explains his characters' faces."

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