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Category: Webcomics

  • Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper

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    Kazu Kibuishi, who I have mentioned before, both in reference to his wonderful online comic Copper (also here), and as the primary force behind the Flight comics anthologies, has been hard at work for the last two years on a graphic novel project that has finally been released. Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper is the…

  • Zuda Comics (update)

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    When I first wrote about Zuda Comics back in July, DC Comics’ venture into creating an online comics community and developing a commercial line from it was barely more than a web page and a promise. In the intervening time, however, the promise has begun to fill out, and there is now a substantial presence,…

  • Gareth Hinds

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    I have to admit that I’m becoming a little tired of movie CGI, particularly when used with motion capture to portray fake humans; so I haven’t bothered to see the Robert Zemeckis Hollywoodization of the classic Northern European epic poem Beowulf. Apparently millions of people who just fine with movies full of fake actors, probably…

  • Zip and Li’l Bit (update)

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    I found myself in a sour mood the other day and in need of some distraction and entertainment that didn’t involve gunshots, car chases, fist fights, explosions, betrayal, murder, infidelity, gratuitous nudity, scandal, deceit, lies and horror. So I turned off Fox News and looked to the list of web comics that I like to…

  • Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

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    It’s often mentioned that comics, or “graphic storytelling” is the only art form in which words and pictures are blended together in an integral way to tell a story. I also like to point out that comics is the only visual medium (compared, for example, to film or video) in which the reader/viewer can choose…

  • DC Comics Announces Zudacomics.com

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    In the 12 years or so that I’ve been drawing webcomics, I’ve continued to be stupefied by the monumental cluelessness of the major comics companies (with the possible exception of Dark Horse) in regard to online comics. It took Marvel and DC four or five years to even acknowledge their existence, they never seemed to…