#117 Will readers pay for comics they can get for free?

Perry Bible FellowshipNicholas Gurewitch’s Perry Bible Fellowship is one of a number of comics originally available for free on line that people are now paying to read on paper. Does this put the lie to all the hand-wringing about online availability killing music and movies?

#110 Comic Market report

Patrik Washburn had a table on Day One of the Comic Market event in Tokyo. Tim, Mulele, and Patrick Gannon checked it out, and sat down afterwards to discuss their impressions for the podcast.

Michao (Kodansha’s Web comics site)
(in Japanese; membership is free, but you need to log in to read the comics)

Earth Ranger, from Playfullness Comics
(in Japanese)

Mulele’s site

Patrick Gannon’s site

#094 Web comics: Read them! Make them!

Rice BoyWe’ve been reading a few Web comics and discuss our favorites. Also: Tim’s dormant one, and Mulele’s planned one. And how about sending us yours for review? We’ll be nice (mostly)!

The Noob
Holy Bibble
Rice Boy

#093 Violence in Comics: What’s acceptable? What’s necessary?

Killing PickmanTim and Mulele discuss violence — in Weird Crime Theater, in Thunderbolts, and in two books from Archaia Studios Press: “Awakening” and “Killing Pickman”!

Ben Templesmith’s Wormwood (referred to by Mulele)

#082 Web comics: What happens if the big players get involved?

Diesel SweetiesPublishing online opens your comic up to a worldwide audience. But if the major players in print comics start publishing online, will they stamp out all the one-horse comics out there? Is there room on the Web for all of us?

Time article about Web comics

#081 Jun-Pierre Shiozawa: Comics for new purposes

Tim and Mulele interview Jun-Pierre Shiozawa, who does various comics on his blog and elsewhere including, recently, a report on a DaVinci museum exhibit! He talks about his comic Lucky, taking a seminar from Scott McCloud, and more.

Shots of Jun’s sketchbook

#078 Collaborations vs. Drawing and Writing Your Own Comic

Weird Crime TheaterCollaborating on a comic: What are the pros and cons? Would you rather do the whole thing yourself? Mulele’s done both, and tells Tim how it’s gone for him. Plus, a little discussion of Watchmen (very little)!

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