Comments on: Digital rebirth for comic strips

"See you in the funny pages" takes on a new meaning for cartoon artists who are making a home on the Web.

[hadleydb]

Cool article

There is a lot of truth to this article. I have 3 comics debuting in my pdf all digital magazine this month. http://www.outcrymagazine.com. All are extremely funny. I think the web is a great outlet for comic strips.

[marileev]

Web Strips are Grrreat!

Web Comics are great and have been around for a while, my friend Lori turned me on to Sebastian Conley's "Seth Lives" which he created as an undergrad at Harvard ( http://www.campusnut.com/comic.cfm ). Having comics online also gives people living in different regions to get a sense of local humor. My local paper, the Seattle PI (home to David Horsey's political cartoons) and Seattle Times has also had web comics available:

* http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/comicsgames/
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Marvel also gives nice previews online to their graphic novels: http://marvel.com/ . Their teasers got me back into buying some of the titles.

[marileev]

Link to David Horsey

For got the link to Mr. David Horsey's Political Cartoons online: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/

[CAllenH]

Two Things offhand

One - this would have been a good article to have appeared,
say, five years ago. Web publishing of comics is an accomplished
thing at this point (still evolving, of course, but an enormous
creative movement for some years now) and talking about the
transition from print to Web is tacit admission that you haven't
been paying attention.

Two - Animation is not the future of comics, comics is the future
of comics. Again, this point has already played out. The tools for
animating comics have been around for years and the ones that
want to animate have become animated, leaving thousands of
regular, old comics doing their thing and being comics. The
tools and publishing media may change, but writing and
drawing comics is its own art form and is not animation and is
not going to disappear in favor of something else. Again, this is
the kind of argument that is only made by someone who hasn't
been paying attention to the actual evolution of this form up to
this point. Adding a blog to a massively syndicated comic like
Dilbert, which has been available in print and online for years,
does not constitute any kind of shift or development in the art
form OR its distribution.

You want to know about webcomics? Read some webcomics.

[vecctor]

old news . .

Yeah I agree. This story seems like old news to me. Are you sure this isn't supposed to be Feb 2005? or 2004?

[pixelstrips]

Webcomics are comics

I run Pixelstrips.com a webcomic community that hosts 20 comics
and has comic tutorials and articles. I see online comics as a
natural progression and tend not to refer to them as webcomics.
They are comics.

Comics online are a great way to get your work out there without
incurring printing costs and may lead to a print deal.

http://www.pixelstrips.com

[marileev]

Nice Resource

I actually dated someone in Art School who was looking to start a strip with another grad. It is tricky translating the hand drawing to web to animation.

One of my faves animations is Angry Asian Girl - hits home...

* http://www.pbs.org/searching/lela_battle.html
* http://www.angrylittlegirls.com/