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On my stream tonite I will be featuring Jojo Stillwell of Hiveworks and we’ll be talking about doing business with webcomics and such. Mostly it’ll be me asking questions to Jojo about Hiveworks and how it came to be, but there’s a good chance it’ll veer off into other things. I’ll talk about Slipshine as well. Also I’m still not entirely sure what will be on the video feed, but we’ll figure that out.
Also this event seems to be part of ComfyCon now, which is pretty neat. Thanx Randy and Danielle!
wonderwig asked:
What are the benefits of being apart of a comics guild (network? super friends?) like Blank Label or Hiveworks? I've barely begun to notice that some of the webcomics I read seem to be apart of larger collectives. I'm not looking to join one, but I'd like to be social with other artists.
I don’t think I’m a heavily-integrated part of Hiveworks like most of the comics on their front page – they’re just putting me up. This is in exchange for a small banner of links, which does replace one of my adspaces, but that adspace does NOT give me ANY WHERE NEAR the amount of money I was blowing into Dreamhost every month. And Dreamhost didn’t even host me well, as anyone trying to get into any of my sites at midnight EST would attest. So I’m basically looking at free money to have a site that works. That’s the benefit I’m looking at.
Hiveworks has a page up now for some Dumbing of Age merchandise! There’s some hand-carved Dina drink coasters and some popular prints, huzzah. Go check ‘em out.
wood-poppy-deactivated20140829 asked:
do you read a bunch of other webcomics? like have you heard of go get a roomie?
I have! We are both on Hiveworks and once we fought over Questionable Content’s Project Wonderful leaderboard. (I WON.)
12 Days of Top Ten Lists (Day 3 Recap)
Another day another top ten list. Lets recap my TOP TEN FAVORITE WEBCOMICS OF 2012
Honorable Mentions
Gronk by Katie Cook and Amazing Super Powers by Wes and Tony
Number 10: Nerf This by Scott Ferguson
Number 9: xkcd by Randall Munroe
Number 8: Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins
Number 7: PVP by Scott Kurtz
Number 6: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weiner
Number 5: Shortpacked by David Willis
Number 4: Cyanide and Happiness by Kris, Dave, Matt, and Rob
Number 3: Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques
Number 2: Dumbing of Age by David Willis
Number 1: JL8 by Yale Stewart
woo i beat myself
The One Question
I’ve been asked a lot of webcomic-y questions since Jump Leads launched back in ‘07, and with Deadlong having launched this month I’ve been asked more or less all of those questions again. One of those questions is, invariably, “What’s your favourite webcomic?”
Previously, I’ve abstained from answering this question. There are, truthfully, dozens of webcomics that I read every single week, and I’ve never really sat down and thought about which webcomic was at the top of my totem pole.
It’s one thing for a webcomic to keep me hooked. It’s another thing entirely for me to want to go back and re-read a webcomic I’ve already read from the beginning to the most recent strip. I’ve done this with Penny Arcade and Starslip a number of times, the former because videogames are in my blood, and the latter because I devour well-written scifi-comedy like monkeys eat bananas.
But I can count on one hand the number of other webcomics I’ve actually read from start to finish multiple times. In fact I can count it on one finger - Shortpacked!.
I first read Shortpacked! in, I think, 2006. Friend and soon to be fellow Jump Leads writer Euan Mumford sent me the link for Shortpacked!. He read it because he was a fan of previous webcomics by the same cartoonist, David Willis. I read it because it spoke to me on a number of levels. First, it was clever. Secondly, it was funny as Hell. Thirdly, it spoke to a part of my brain that had only recently been switched on - the collector.
Doctor Who had relaunched the previous year, and the first wave of Character Options’ Doctor Who action figures had been released. I didn’t have as much disposable income as I would have liked, but I craved those figures above all things. I was able to buy a few, including the first-wave coat variant of the Tenth Doctor and the Regeneration pack featuring the Ninth Doctor in a very, very stiff pose and the Tenth Doctor in the Ninth’s outfit. I wanted to own as many figures from the range as possible.
Even beyond the collector stuff, though, Shortpacked! entertains. The characters have distinct voices, the scenarios walk the line between grounded in reality and skirting on the manic, and it’s quite wonderfully funny - funnier than most narrative-driven webcomics out there, I’d say.
Perhaps the most astounding thing is that while the quality of many webcomics has dipped and wobbled over the years, Shortpacked! remains consistently brilliant. Willis’ art has evolved over the years, and so has his comic timing, not to mention his flare for drama.
I don’t feel like there are many other webcomics I can really compare it to. It’s best compared with television sitcoms like Scrubs, or Community. I can’t help but feel that Willis is deliberately aiming for a similar tone - he’s referenced both shows a few times throughout the comic - but whether intentional or not it comes across as effortless.
So, yeah, whenever anybody asks me “What your favourite webcomic?” these days, my answer is always the same: Shortpacked!. There’s nothing else quite like it.
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Sal as Amazi-Girl! Billie’s reality haha.
Sketch by David Willis at Webcomics Rampage 2012!
I’ve decided to start collecting webcomics titled “Roomies”
1) There is, of course, mine.
2) There’s the one about a horse-person that no longer exists, but I remember back when it did.
3) There’s the one about a guy in a banana costume i guess i’m not sure?
4) There’s the other one about animal-people, though this time it’s cats, not horses.
5) And then there’s this other thing I dug up and I’m not sure why it’s called this.
6) And there’s apparently one called Roommates (close enough) that updates on DeviantArt. (thanks to whydontihatemarrymyself)]
This list exists outside the comics that have “Roomies” as part of a longer title, like Go Get a Roomie or Zombie Roomie or College Roomies from Hell!!!. These titles are way too creative. I’d be interested in seeing which other “Roomies” webcomics out there can be dug up. I’ve probably just uncovered the tip of the iceberg.
Best Webcomics Ever (This Week) 11.27.11
By Aaron Coulter
As we move into the second installment of our weekly webcomic round-ups, I want to thank everyone for their suggestions, and to keep things as transparent as possible, mention a few things about how comics are included in each week’s list.
To start, the comic has to be updated within each specific week, or relatively close. If a comic is no longer updating, I probably won’t cover it in the weekly list. If something’s especially great, but nonetheless finished, feel free to mention it in the comments section, and it might be covered for a longer piece someday. Part of the goal of this column is to showcase the variety of webcomic talent publishing on the Internet, but also to provide a quick recommendation of the best recent updates.
Woo, I placed! I’d like to thank my mommy, Chick-Fil-A, and Jesus.
But I repeat myself.
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