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Comics: the Infinite Corpse

Thursday, May 9, 2013

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Now I somehow missed this totally, but fortunately Metaphrog dropped me a line about it: the Infinite Corpse. Aaron Renier had invited them to take part in a ‘chain comic’, where a group of different creators (in this case some 209 – and counting – different writers and artists) contributed three panels to an ongoing, [...]

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Comics: Darryl Cunningham on Act-I-Vate

Friday, May 3, 2013

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Darryl Cunningham is back on my favourite webcomics collective, Act-I-Vate, with his comics biog/history on controversial author and political/lifestyle icon/hate figure (delete as applicable), Ayn Rand (see above). Meanwhile over on Darryl’s own blog he’s posted up his whole strip detailing the shameful police brutality which lead to the death of an innocent man during [...]

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Reviews: Widdershins

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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Widderrshins Volumes 1 Sleight Of Hand, and Volume 2 No Rest For The Wicked By Kate Ashwin I settled down with Widdershins with a genuine sense of anticipation, as I’d seen the webcomic, seen Kate Ashwin’s Kickstarter for Volume 2, and filed the comic away in the bit of my brain that’s meant to remember [...]

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Comics: One Shade of Grey

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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Yes, I know it’s been online for a while but I only came across it while browsing for something else entirely at the weekend, and I thought Tatsuya Ishida’s feminist comics riposte to the erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey, One Shade of Grey, was pretty funny: (One Shade of Grey by and (c) Tatsuya [...]

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The Rise of Webcomics

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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PBS has produced a short but neat video on webcomics, chatting to several good creators about their online work and why they do it (via BoingBoing):

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Alex’s audio round up

Sunday, March 3, 2013

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Alex Fitch updates us on his upcoming comics related shows; as always check the Panel Borders site for more information as well as a rich archive of previous podcasts with all sorts of comics folks: Panel Borders: Young British Webcomic creators, tonight at 6pm on Resonance FM, repeated 4.30pm Tuesday 5th March, podcast after transmission [...]

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Comics: Warren Ellis’ daily newspaper strip…..

Saturday, February 23, 2013

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Well, Scatterlands is Warren Ellis’ daily newspaper strip on his website…. but hey, the principle is the damn same, and it’s alwats worth a look at whatever Ellis comes up with… And here’s Warren from episode 1: “So I’d been talking about newspaper strips, and an idea that amused me: to lay a daily single-panel [...]

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Comics: My So-called Secret Identity

Friday, February 22, 2013

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The Guardian profiles new webcomic My So-called Secret Identity, featuring a young female lead called Catherine Abigail Daniels, dreamed up by Will Brooker as an antidote to the way women are often portrayed in superhero comics. I don’t agree with everything in the piece – the article seems to assume the term ‘comics’ covers everything [...]

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Comics: Mephistos on the move….

Sunday, February 3, 2013

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Naniiebim‘s Mephistos was enjoyably reviewed back in 2012.  ”…..the cool looks, the pensive stares, the open lines, the demon and the girl. The demon is called Mephistos; Soul Recruitment junior Field Operative. Demon Third Class. Or at least that’s what his work ID says. The girl is Maria. And she’s the only one who can [...]

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Comics: Adam Murphy’s daily comic….

Sunday, February 3, 2013

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Adam Murphy was a recent Desert Island Comics castaway, where I had but the briefest chance to mention his daily comic, running at his website. Underneath this are four from January, and do a rather good job of showing off both the simplicity of his style, and the breadth of what he covers. And that’s [...]

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