Longbox Digital‘s comics reader beta was unveiled at Emerald City Comicon in March. Is it any good? Tim and Mulele review. Also: hilarious Web comic “Axe Cop“!
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Kumar’s Link Regurg-a-thon #2!
I like the art of Adam Hughes very much, but this statue is bad:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/03/24/batgirl-statue-adam-hughes/
Not comics, but this seems to be the season for Leiji Matsumoto movies:
CG Captain Harlock — http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-24/captain-harlock-new-cg-pilot-images-staff-revealed
Live Action Uchu Senkan Yamato (a.k.a. Star Blazers in the US) — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExoH_JjMZg
Galaxy Express 999 is one of my all-time favorite manga. Some day we are going to cover it on the podcast, I swear.
When you are not listening to Deconstructing Comics, I highly recommend you check out Gary Groth’s interview with Todd McFarlane from the early days of Image. Hilariously and predictably, within months of this interview McFarlane began engaging in various business practices which contradicted much of what he states here. He did, however, stand firm by his word that there was no point in him trying to improve as an artist:
Finally, Fantagraphics has a preview up of their new CAPATIN EASY book, one of my all-time favorite newspaper strips:
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#223 Electronic Comics
Comics are increasingly read as bits and bytes, on PCs and handheld devices.
Blank creators Brothers of the Silence are publishing the comic in Flash on their site, and as image files on Facebook and several other sites. “Brothers” Ian LeWinter and Don Richmond talk about creating the comic and promoting it via social media sites.
Dale Wilson of DWAP Productions, making his second appearance on this podcast, discusses the ways his company is getting its traditional paper product out in handheld device formats.
Remember “Yon Kuma”? Tim and Mulele reviewed it a year ago. It’s now called “Bear Beater Bunyan,” and it’s an iPhone app. Artist Jorge Munoz talks about the path he and writer Josh Hechinger followed in making the comic available for handhelds.
“Bear Beater Bunyan” is just one of many comics available from Robotcomics.net. Robot Comics Deputy Director Dave Baxter fills us in on the state of the growing comics market for handhelds and how Robot does what it does.
Finally, Tim and Mulele review some of Robot’s output.
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Kumar’s Link Regurg-a-thon #1!
For the past few weeks, every time I stumble across any interesting links in my comics website lurking, I’ve been emailing them on to Tim and Mulele (I’m guessing they don’t visit the same news websites I do). Tim has been encouraging me to post these on the Deconstructing Comics site, but I have been reluctant because I would just be regurgitating links I stole from other people’s lists of links. So, I’ve finally conceded, and in a flagrant abuse of administrative power will post a link to a video completely unrelated to comics in any way, and stolen from Tom Spurgeon’s www.comicsreporter.com —
Star Trek Convention 1975. If you love Star Trek in any way, this will take your breath away:
And now for some real links —
Ditko compositions: http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/ditkos-spider-man-part-1-aka-hey-look.html
Balak’s digital comics: http://balak01.deviantart.com/art/about-DIGITAL-COMICS-111966969
The many faces of Lum (Urusei Yatsura): http://www.tcj.com/manga/so-many-lums
Basement collection: http://www.seriejournalen.dk/blogs.asp?blogid=18&id=478#artikel478
More Ditko: http://comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com/2010/01/rom-64.html
Traditional Comics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeXCsvUlzSc
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Digital comics on your Apple Tablet??
#128 The Orphan Works Bill
The Orphan Works bill in front of the U.S. Congress now poses huge problems for creators, especially in visual media, all over the world. Tim talks to Brad Holland from the American Society of Illustrators Partnership.
Tell your congressional reps to vote against this bill
Orphan Works Resource Page for Artists
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#114 Illustration Friday is just “one more day”
Tim and Mulele discuss comics & the Hollywood writers’ strike, Mulele’s comics career, Illustration Friday, and the Spider-Man “One More Day” event.
Why the WGA strike won’t hurt Comic-Con
No Strike Zone: Marvel Studios makes a deal with WGA
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#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)
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#084 Zuda
Follow-up on Web comics: DC has announced Zudacomics.com. The details given answer some of our questions, and bring up new ones.
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#082 Web comics: What happens if the big players get involved?
Publishing 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?
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