Dang, I didn’t see this until today — Carmine Infantino passed away on Thursday. Infantino designed the Silver Age Flash’s now-iconic red and yellow costume. He drew “Flash of Two Worlds,” a landmark story published in The Flash #123 that introduced Earth-Two to DC Comics. He also helped coordinate the cross-publisher comic “Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man.”
I just saw that Goodreads has been bought by Amazon. I don’t know what to think about that, I haven’t been super-active on the site recently but if it’s all now going to be fodder for Amazon’s store, I suppose I will think about it in a different light. But I digress from the zombies. I just finished watching the Season 3 finale of The Walking Dead teevee series. I thought this last season was mostly really good. Probably the best season yet but regardless I think we can all agree that it was better than Season Two. The comic …
Roger Ebert passed away this week. Cancer sucks. No one growing up now will get how I and others looked forward to seeing Siskel & Ebert’s show. They argued about movies, they showed clips — it was the only thing of its kind at the time. I thought Ebert had better taste and the better of most of their arguments on the show but when I got older I think I appreciated Siskel more. Now they’re both gone. The role of the critic in the era of the Internet is different. There is no more scarcity of reviews and very …
Comics Alliance reports that Dark Horse will publish later this year a hardcover collection of Cameron Stewart’s self-published webcomic Sin Titulo. I previously blogged about Sin Titulo here and here.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_kLmzenGLo?rel=0] Great episode and probably the most intense “draw-off” competition yet. I did not agree with the judges decision this time but I kind of get why they went the way they did. Interestingly enough it looks like the average for the Strip Show episodes right now is somewhere just south of 50,000 views (I’m assuming each one is posted once to YouTube) although the first episode is at 80,000. I wonder what the expectation was going in and whether it’s doing better or worse than that.
What Birds Know is a creepy, coming-of-age webcomic that’s updated for something like 7 years or so now. I reviewed it enthusiastically for ComixTalk many years ago and just started catching back up on it on Comic Rocket. Starting over, I remember why I liked it, it starts off in a fantasy, medieval village where three young friends have been assigned a field trip to collect 100 mushrooms for their school. The opening scene of them collecting their stuff, saying goodbye to family shows so much about the three main characters without the need for clumsy telling. It’s quite good …
Really cool speech from Dave Grohl at this year’s SXSW – check it out at the NPR website (doesn’t seem to be a way to embed the video). Grohl has been busy – working on a new Foo Fighters album, and the documentary he did on the Sound City recording studio where Nirvana’s Nevermind album was recorded. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoOfiLz1G4?rel=0] I just drove by this which is the title of a song on the Foo Fighters first album: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEcrXjgYYw?rel=0]
Episode Eight is called Drawing Blind and involved a contest where the contestants paired up and then each had to draw a picture they couldn’t see but that their partner described with words. Is this at all relevant to making webcomics? I guess a little — working with a writer or just two or more creators collaborating would need to share ideas. Words do help but I imagine most creators do like to share thumbnail sketches. The results of this contest are pretty good evidence that words alone are not enough for a good working webcomic collaboration. Nevertheless per the …
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