MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

From a recent Comixpedia interview with Joe Zabel: Zabel: Hmmm… well, I think of comics in the context of late 20th century culture. What is the dominant artform of the last 50 years? Cinema, i.e. movies and television. In terms of popularity and influence, all other artforms pale to insignificance next to it. The problem [...]

Kelly Cooper started a new column at Comixpedia called “The Webcomic Reader”. It is described as a place where “she explores this thing called ‘literary criticism’ and how it applies to webcomics.”I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes, as any movement towards more comics criticism seems like a good idea to me. She starts [...]

John Allison’s Scary Go Round is a long running webcomic that is kind of beyond description. There is a large cast of characters who live in a British city, and the storylines are all over the place from sci-fi and horror to politics and romance. It’s often really funny (or at least quietly amusing). His [...]

Webcomics: Tools and Techniques for Digital Cartooning. Ed. Steven Withrow and John Barber. Barron’s, 2005. As I’m gearing up to do some comics and put them up online, I’ve been doing a little research. This brand new book on Webcomics seemed like a good place to see how others do it and pick up a [...]