I skipped a few days of linklogging, but that was mostly because I didn’t have much to talk about. I am not dropping the habit. “They Saw It Coming: The Car Was Always the Cause Of All The Problems In Our City” is mostly about the early history of parking congestion in New York, but […]
Category Archives: Webcomi cs
New pages available to Patrons
For paying Patrons, there’s a newly redrawn Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan page available right now! Everyone else will have to wait until January 1. By the way, this means that the first page I publish to the general public in the new year will be a Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan page and that makes me very happy. […]
Hand-coloring
Interrupting the reposts for some new art: Four hand-colored images that were especially made for me to try out different markers. Each has a mix of real Copic markers, inexpensive knockoffs from the local discount store, and digital Copic tones added in Sketchbook on iPad Pro. -Abúi the faerie from Abúi’s Travels in a tutu […]
Notes/First Impressions: Zombie Nation by Carter Reid
So in my post about Sex Criminals, Rat Queens and Saga, I added a bit at the end, saying There is one more [Hugo] nominee [for Graphic Story] that, for reasons I’ve outlined before, I will skip for now. If I have time, I may check it out and if it rocks my world, it […]
Darkness and homeopathic bartendering
Darkness by Boulet is probably the best 24-hour comic ever made. The writing and art are just too good to be true and even in its current imperfect translation (the comic was originally in French) it has some classic lines in it. Speaking of which, the other day I read Daniel Davies’ The Christmas Sermon […]
Art from 1999: Display design, self-portraits and… Ezra Pound?
The images below are all from a single sketchbook from 1999, and are all that remains of that sketchbook. First, two self-portraits for a solo magazine called IK (me) that I put out in the late 1990s. It consisted mostly of autobiographical stories, some of which made it online. That year, I was also considering […]
Art from 1998: White House in Orbit sketches
I’ve gone through my sketchbooks over the past week to pick what all I was going to keep and what was going to get thrown out. Pickings from the year 1998 have been slim: unless I find another sketchbook from that year that I haven’t torn up yet, the images below are all that I […]
Two art blogs I like, plus two webcomics to check out
Mythwood – The Art of Larry MacDougal and A Vintage Sky are both sketchblogs showing lots of fantasy art in neat storybook illustration style. I find them very inspirational. Meanwhile, in her blog, Aggie linked to two comics that I need to check out: The Epic of Cuchulainn and Lovecraft is missing. I’ll get around […]
Designing webcomics for a range of sight impairments
I posted the following on a Comicgenesis forums thread about comics for the visually impaired about two weeks ago: The assumption among most commenters here seems to be that people are either perfectly sighted or completely blind – a lazy assumption that Bruce Tognazzini, former interaction designer for Apple, has some things to say about: […]
Return of the Son of the End of Free, Part II
Over the years, I’ve become skeptical of paid content as a viable model for most of the content being published online, particularly for webcomics. In the previous part, I discussed what I believe are the reasons micropayments have historically failed and free content resurged in the mid-2000s. I believe Rupert Murdoch’s plan to start charging […]