More from the webcomic Unshelved: This week they’re doing a storyline about someone who wants to ban graphic novels from libraries. The strips start here. It’s not a subtle approach, but there are some points made about banning attempts misfiring by getting more attention for the books to those who are interested. I thought the [...]

The winners of the Nan Grant for women have been announced! Blue Canary, Kit White Chasing Daylight, Ann Kennedy (my favorite, but it’s early days yet) Circuit of Heaven, Julia Claire Begley (URL forthcoming) Primary, Rachel Dukes In other girl-centered webcomic news, Girlamatic is having GAM-O-Ween this week. Submitted for your approval (and entertainment) are a delicious selection of candid Snapshots [...]

The most distinctive packaging of a minicomic at the Small Press Expo came from The Heather and Ben Show. They do an internet puppet cartoon show, and to promote themselves, they had little Chinese takeout boxes full of postage stamp-sized mini-minis. Most of these were nothing more than a title, two panels, and a final [...]

This is the fourth collection of the webcomic series about a public library and its workers. (I’ve previously reviewed the first and second volumes, and here’s a link to the third.) The usual cast of characters returns — Dewey, smart alec geek; soft-hearted vegetarian Tamara; the guy who’s always wearing the beaver costume; and naked, homeless, [...]

Happy news of the day: Modern Tales has begun serializing one of my favorites, Xeno’s Arrow. It’s been colored for web display, and there will be a new chapter posted on the first Monday of every month. For those of you unfamiliar with the story of a child escaping from an intergalactic zoo, it’s free, [...]

Slave Labor takes another step forward with their digital comic sales plan: SLG will be taking what it considers to be the logical next step by serializing Whistles as downloadable-only comics, following with a print version of the comics in graphic novel format being made available to the book trade and direct markets in the [...]

Platinum Studios must have a great press agent. Although they have yet to publish a comic, they’re written up in the NY Times, this time for being webcomic leaders. I can’t begin to count the inaccuracies and misleading statements in this piece. How about the first paragraph, which says that the webcomic audience is “limited [...]

Old favorite of mine Strange Attractors has returned, with its pages posted as a webcomic. Nowadays, a comic with the subtext of reading comics is nothing new, but back in 1994, the series was fresh and unusual. It’s about a girl whose childhood favorite comics, about an interstellar pirate, turn out to be true, and [...]

DriveThruComics has launched a comic download service, aiming to be the “iTunes of comics”. Most comics are available in PDF for $1.99 an issue, including titles from About Comics, AK, Archaia Studios Press, NBM, Heroic Publishing, Kenzer & Company, Marvel Comics’ Dabel Brothers (DBPro) imprint, and many smaller studios and publishers. Antarctic and Markosia are [...]

If you’ve been looking for a webcomic you can share with a child, look no further: you want Silent Kimbly. Kimbly’s a girl in pink-and-yellow rabbit ears who takes everything literally. The single panel comics are based around puns, such as “lemonaid” meaning playing doctor to fruit, or a shooting star waving guns around. The [...]

I thought this was a clever idea… Webcomic Hotness is a group of webcomic creators who appeared together at the Baltimore Comic-Con. They created a simple free minicomic in which one of the characters went venturing through a variety of the strips. It didn’t always make sense, unless you already knew the characters and situations, [...]

Colleen Doran has announced that she’ll be launching a weekly webcomic soon. She’s remastering her “Seasons of Spring” backup story from the early issues of A Distant Soil to prepare it for eventual print collection, and she’s planning to run the pages on the web first. This story, concentrating on the daily life of the [...]