Webcomics update
Jul. 17th, 2007 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenMy daily start page continues to grow. I think it's got to the scary stage when it's more tabs than Firefox can display at once on 1 of my 1182*864 monitors, and I do have the tweak in place for FF2 that scales down tabs when there are lots of them.
Alas, some of the new ones don't update very regularly.
I've been very pleased to discover that the creators of 2 of my old favourites which finished have come back with new projects. Aeire, artist and writer of Queen of Wands, has a new strip, Punch an' Pie. Sadly she's not drawing it - Chris Daily of Strip Tease is the artist. I used to like her style a lot - it was pleasingly ideosyncratic, perhaps 'cos she's one of the relatively few female artists in the business. But the new project is shaping up well and it continues the story of some of the characters from QoW - not Kestrel, of course, as she moved cities and is now a very occasional guest star in Randy Milholland's excellent Something Positive. But his lead character Davan has moved to Texas, so we don't see so much of the supporting cast any more.
(Saying that, I also admire Danielle Corsetto's Girls with Slingshots, Starline Hodge's Candi, Meghan Murphy's Kawaii Not and Giselle Lagace's Penny & Aggie, amongst others, but I'm sure you all know about them already.)
Another team back from the dead, or at least from summer vacation, is Mat Boyd and Ian McConville, creators of Mac Hall. Their new strip is Three Panel Soul. Only discovered this today, but it looks great. I like the page title: "this is where all the missing ink lines went." Their old strip was famed for its outlineless art, you see.
And another female team are behind Wonderland - written by Mia Paluzzu and drawn by Chrissy Delk. Lovely luscious art on this, but updates seem a bit patchy so far - certainly not the twice a week they promise!
From community news site Press Esc I discovered Welcome To The Future by Jeremy Hitchcock. Simple 4-panel layout but all the primary characters are silhouettes, lending it instant visual identifiability.
Remy Mokhtar's No Pink Ponies has a fun twist to somewhat generic manga-style art. Not yet so convinced by the strip he's paid to draw (as he puts it) - Marry Me. Both are mildly diverting, though, but more in the commercial mould than some of the more anarchic webcomics.
Octopus Pie seems to be the one that some of the big-name indie webcomics creators are raving about. I am not that spellbound yet but it's early days. It grew on me a lot when I read it from the start.
To round off, an artist rather than a strip: Arthur de Pins. Gorgeous Flash animation at the bottom of the page which has got to make a usericon for someone. I recommend the movie Geraldine in particular. All the French you'll need to know is this: opening scene - "one morning, Gerald woke up to discover he'd been transformed into a woman." From then, the "J" in "J+1" etc. stands for "jour" - "day". Excellent fun.
If you're into mini-movie-animations on the web, also watch Mark Osborne's MORE. It's claymation rather than line art, and it's not as searingly original as the critics think, but it's a beautifully-crafted piece.
Alas, some of the new ones don't update very regularly.
I've been very pleased to discover that the creators of 2 of my old favourites which finished have come back with new projects. Aeire, artist and writer of Queen of Wands, has a new strip, Punch an' Pie. Sadly she's not drawing it - Chris Daily of Strip Tease is the artist. I used to like her style a lot - it was pleasingly ideosyncratic, perhaps 'cos she's one of the relatively few female artists in the business. But the new project is shaping up well and it continues the story of some of the characters from QoW - not Kestrel, of course, as she moved cities and is now a very occasional guest star in Randy Milholland's excellent Something Positive. But his lead character Davan has moved to Texas, so we don't see so much of the supporting cast any more.
(Saying that, I also admire Danielle Corsetto's Girls with Slingshots, Starline Hodge's Candi, Meghan Murphy's Kawaii Not and Giselle Lagace's Penny & Aggie, amongst others, but I'm sure you all know about them already.)
Another team back from the dead, or at least from summer vacation, is Mat Boyd and Ian McConville, creators of Mac Hall. Their new strip is Three Panel Soul. Only discovered this today, but it looks great. I like the page title: "this is where all the missing ink lines went." Their old strip was famed for its outlineless art, you see.
And another female team are behind Wonderland - written by Mia Paluzzu and drawn by Chrissy Delk. Lovely luscious art on this, but updates seem a bit patchy so far - certainly not the twice a week they promise!
From community news site Press Esc I discovered Welcome To The Future by Jeremy Hitchcock. Simple 4-panel layout but all the primary characters are silhouettes, lending it instant visual identifiability.
Remy Mokhtar's No Pink Ponies has a fun twist to somewhat generic manga-style art. Not yet so convinced by the strip he's paid to draw (as he puts it) - Marry Me. Both are mildly diverting, though, but more in the commercial mould than some of the more anarchic webcomics.
Octopus Pie seems to be the one that some of the big-name indie webcomics creators are raving about. I am not that spellbound yet but it's early days. It grew on me a lot when I read it from the start.
To round off, an artist rather than a strip: Arthur de Pins. Gorgeous Flash animation at the bottom of the page which has got to make a usericon for someone. I recommend the movie Geraldine in particular. All the French you'll need to know is this: opening scene - "one morning, Gerald woke up to discover he'd been transformed into a woman." From then, the "J" in "J+1" etc. stands for "jour" - "day". Excellent fun.
If you're into mini-movie-animations on the web, also watch Mark Osborne's MORE. It's claymation rather than line art, and it's not as searingly original as the critics think, but it's a beautifully-crafted piece.
