Webcomic post

[iesika]

This post is as much for my benefit as yours - by having all these links posted in one place, I can check up on all my comics from any computer, without having to wrack my brain remembering how to get there.

Digger by Ursula Vernon  (Tuesday and Thursday)

Some of you may be familiar with my mad fangirling of Ursula Vernon. She's a fabulous artist (check out her website, Metal and Magic), who has a true love of the ugly and unusual sides of nature. Digger is a comic that centers on the adventures of a wandering Wombat who has found herself lost in a strange place with even stranger company. She's brave, good hearted, and incredibly pragmatic. Along with the usual Vernon crazyiness (oracular slugs), there's a lot of well-read, terribly interesting detail in here, about everything from the social structure of hyena packs to the odder and more beautiful aspects of mythology from all over the world. Vernon has also published the early portions of the comic in trade book format. And here is something of hers that
kasra_c
will like.

Girl Genius (Online) by Phil and Kaja Foglio (Monday Wednesday and Friday)

The art in this series will BLOW YOUR MIND. The first book's worth is in black and white, but after that, the whole thing is full color, and incredibly detailed and beautiful. The story is "gaslamp fantasy," which is to say there are Airship Armadas and giant, steam-powered robots and tiny clockwork lab assistants. It reads like an adventure novel. Agatha Clay is a student at Transylvania Polytechnic University who just can't get anything right - until the day her Professor is blown to bits and someone steals the locket her Uncle Barry gave her just before he disappeared.

Order of the Stick and Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob

These are not by the same person, but they are posted to the same website, Giant in the Playground Games. OotS is a stick figure RPG comic, and it is very funny. Erfworld is about a tabletop gamer who is summoned into a world of turn-based warfare, to be the ultimate warlord. It is also very funny.

XKCD   by Randall Munroe

Hard to describe this one. It's a stick figure comic about math and science and life.

Dr. McNinja   by Chris Hastings and Kent Archer

Dr. McNinja is both a doctor and a ninja. He kind of wants to be Batman, though. He even gets a kid sidekick part way through, who is a tiny bandito with facial hair who rides a velociraptor. Dr. McNinja's mentor is a medically resurrected clone of Ben Franklin. I am making none of this up.

The Holy Bibble by Cannan and Lucas

A very ambitious project - the entire bible as a humorous webcomic. This is at the bottom because it is not too frequent in it's updates. Which is a shame, because it is AWESOME.

Then there is Boy Meets Boy, which isn't updated anymore, but was brilliant for several years.

And I can't talk about webcomics without mentioning Scott Mccloud, who predicted the webcomic boom in his book Reinventing Comics. That book, and the "prequel" Understanding Comics, actually changed the way I think about art and storytelling so completely that it is mindboggling to me. The best part? His books about comics? Are all comics.

Comments

[kasra-c.livejournal.com]

I'd seen the Leperlot pony before when it sold on ebay a couple months back. I recall it went over $100 - possibly even over $200, which surprised me at the time because it's not the sort of thing that usually appeals to MLP fans. (Not that I haven't seen customs that have gone over $300 and even $500, but usually they're more, err, aesthetically pleasing, shall we say.) It *is* a hell of a custom pony, though, I have to admit. Wish I had 1/100th of the skill.

I don't read webcomics personally (outside of maybe Penny Arcade and Short Packed) but my husband is addicted to the damn things. I recognize XKCD and Girl Genius from the list as ones he reads (he buys the Girl Genius trade paperbacks as well), though I wouldn't be surprised if he read some of the others on there. I know he also reads whatever the new comic is that the writer or artist or whatever from Boy Meets Boy starting doing after that comic ended, though I couldn't tell you the name. I only recognize that much because he commented on it in passing to me about six months ago or so.

I haven't read any of Scott Mccloud's stuff about comics, but fandom wank has taught me that if nothing else he's a colossal wanker. Then again, so are most of the big ego web comic writers, so I perhaps it goes with the territory. ^^;

[iesika.livejournal.com]

Leperlot may have gone for more because he was made by Vernon. She sells a lot of original art online, and most of it goes for a pretty penny.

I haven't seen online anything about McCloud outside his own website, which is very rarely updated. I wouldn't think of him as a "big ego web comic writer", in fact, I hardly think of him as a webcomic author at all - most of what he has published online is in the realm of experimental formatting and such, and they are almost always short little things. I think his books are really good, though. He does things like explain how the economics of the comic industry works, and how comics from different countries are drawn and laid out and transitioned differently. I think of him more as an academic figure.

[moonypadlover.livejournal.com]

You just made me read another webcomic. I had to add it to the myriad of other comics I read. ^__^

Dang it.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

Oh? Which one did you pick up?

[moonypadlover.livejournal.com]

Holy Bibble. I was laughing too hard not to take it ^_______^