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Category: Webcomics

  • How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web

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    In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of artists’ web sites, I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that the thing artists want most when placing their art on the web is for…

  • Webcomics update

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    Here’s an update on some webcomics that I’ve mentioned previously, some quite a while ago, on lines and colors. Copper Kazu Kibuishi’s delightful Copper was the first webcomic I profiled on lines and colors, and one of my very first posts, I also wrote an update about his terrific post about his creative process for…

  • Chris Appelhans

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    I chanced on Chris Appelhans from a two-month old link from John Nevarez’s blog, did a little digging and found that he is being widely mentioned at the moment. Good thing because his own site has some yummy art but very little actual biographical or background info. Chris Appelhans is a visual development artist who,…

  • Zita the Space Girl

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    Zita the Space Girl is a series of charming short webcomics by Ben Hatke. Hatke draws Zita with a simple, somewhat cartoony outline style reminiscent of early 20th Century newspaper comics, and occasional elaborations with atmospheric color. The home page of the site serves as a news and updates page. The Comics section has the…

  • Zip and Li’l Bit (Trade Loeffler)

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    Zip and Li’l Bit is a webcomic by Trade Loeffler that is simultaneously quite modern and nicely retro. By “retro” in this case, I’m referring to newspaper comics from the early part of the 20th Century (or “Golden Age”, coinciding with the Golden Age of illustration). I say that partly because of the excellent drawing,…

  • The 9/11 Report: a Graphic Adaptation

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    The 9/11 Report: a Graphic Adaptation is an an attempt to adapt the 568 page 9/11 Commission Report into graphic story (i.e. comics) format. The project is being published as webcomic by Slate, the long running online magazine. The graphic adaptation is written by Sid Jacobson and illustrated by Ernie Colón, both of whom have…