Superpowers
Randall Munroe has an interesting superpower — things that he casually includes in his webcomic come true. Sometimes it’s out of his control, and just due to readers gettin’ creative. Sometimes Munroe nudges it along. Truly, I’m hard-pressed to think of any better use of the internet than to provide pictures of scantily-clad or naked people rocking out in the shower (one of whom does her own webcomic which has more than its share of xkcdesque moments). Well done, Munroe and wet rocking people!
In other news:
- Hardy leave-print-for-the-web-then-reprint pioneers Phil and Kaja Foglio will be speaking at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus, on Saturday at 2:45pm:
Titled “I Can Haz Moniez Now?”, the topic is webcomic business models and their successful transition from print to web as a comic publisher.
To be held at the U of I campus,
SEIBOSiebel Center, Room 1404. The lecture is open to the public.LOLFOGLIO? FOGLOLIO? Something like that.
- The fresh hiatus made necessary by life’s ass-kicking tendencies will not deter Owen Dunne from finishing the latest Beevniks storyline.
- And via Lore Sjöberg, news of 400 or so bad comics on the web:
Two guys I did not know about until just today are each publishing 200 bad comics on some sort of Internet double dog dare sort of a thing, and I have to admit I’m enjoying them.
Bad comics guy 1, bad comics guy 2, and the meme has spread to guy 3. This could get out of hand.
http://blindkingdom.livejournal.com/
Another one. Woot woot, all started with a comment from me.
By box on 10.10.07 10:45 am
[…] (Above: Sequence from a recent installment of Girl Genius, ©2007 Studio Foglio LLC. Link via Gary Tyrrell.) […]
By Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Oct. 11, 2007: The thinking man’s Ralph Dibny on 10.11.07 5:57 am
Bad webcomics on purpose? How delightful. What makes them worth a mention over the other hundreds of thousands of bad to atrocious webcomics out there? A great many of which are known to be bad by their creators.
Oh, yeah. Better PR. Heh. *snicker*
By Greg Carter on 10.11.07 8:22 am
It’s always nice when long term professional comic creators come to the realization that making comics has never been about paper.
By Jeff Lowrey on 10.11.07 8:35 am
If you’ve never read anything by Nedroid (aka Bad comics guy 1) then you need to go to his website right now and read everything. He’s one of the best and funniest artists I’ve seen on the net. Ryan North has even linked to him a couple of times.
By oball on 10.14.07 8:21 pm
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