Other Things In The World
Whew — caught up on the backlog, or nearly so. Let’s get contemporary with our news items.
- Calamities of Nature had a contest to run guest strips, producing three winners which ran recently. Congrats to winners Dawn Griffin, Carl Ackerson (by way of R Stevens) and Stephanie O’Donnell. If you like what they did with Tony Piro’s strip, check out their own creations.
- Glad to see that Howard Tayler‘s Open Source Conference video on making money in webcomics is making the rounds.
- New semi-single panel strip from a pair of webcomics vets: Darren Gendron is the creator behind Dear Pirate and the writer of The Expert’s Guide on How to Kill Things That Go Bump in the Night, and is the word-monkey here. Bryan Prindiville is the creator of Broken Muzzle, Frances and Friends, and the newspaper strip about a basset hound that didn’t suck (naturally, you can guess which one is still syndicated).
Anywho, Gendron and Prindiville have, Volton-like, joined forces to become something greater than either of them would be separately, with the result being Hello With Cheese. Early indications show a comic with an art style situated midway between Bob The Angry Flower, early ALILBTDII, with a Herriman-like color palette. Promisingly, the writing appears to concentrate on fart jokes.
- New to me: Daisy Owl, which reads like a cross between Achewood, Cat and Girl, and Nedroid; big thanks to alert reader Susan Cole for pointing me at this one. There’s about six months worth of strips in the archive, which I was compelled to read straight through. No creator’s name that I could find on the site, which makes me sad — this is damn good work, and deserving of a a little bow-taking if only for cracking the code of science (namely, get a Watson).
Edit to add: Thanks to the commenters who had more luck than I did discovering the name of the creator of Daisy Owl; Ben Driscoll, put your name on the front page and take a little credit!
So for everybody that’s not quite back into the rhythms of work, spend the rest of today goofing off with Daisy Owl. I think you’ll be glad you did.
re: Daisy Owl’s creator, i found on the donation page:
Daisy Owl is free. I do it because I love it. If I were able to make a living off it, I could update much more often.
There is no pressure to pay anything, but anything you give will be greatly appreciated.
– Ben Driscoll
By orion on 01.07.09 4:07 pm
Re: Daisy Owl
The creator’s name is Ben Driscoll. And I only found that out through some advanced googling. I also agree about the compulsive read-through; I was reading it at work and the site went down halfway through the archives and I was like, CRISIS!
Susan
By Bookish on 01.07.09 4:08 pm
Thanks for sharing Daisy Owl. This is one of those comics that come along, instantly win you over with the fun to read dialog, and makes me want to give up!
By tpiro on 01.07.09 5:39 pm
Daisy Owl is really fantastic. There’s something very charming and natural about it! Thanks for sharing.
By André on 01.08.09 12:42 pm
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