Owen Dunne

This Day in ComixTALK

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 10, 2008 - 11:17

Hey what do you know - there are still 10 contenders left in the Daily Grind contest.

A look back at other things from the past:

2007

The Perry Bible Fellowship collection - The Trial of Colonel Sweeto - was publisher Dark Horse's third webcomic-to-print success (following Megatokyo and Penny Arcade ). Story here.

2006

A review of the well-received play based on the webcomic Get Your War On from the Washington Post.

2005

ComixTALK had an interview with Mike Rojas, creator of Natch Evil; a review of Jack, created by David Hopkins; and T Campbell discussed how to make action move in webcomics (Part One and Part Two).

Erik Melander's Through the Looking Back Glass column covered the recent events in webcomics:

September held a number of news items which are worth mentioning. First and foremost, the Webcomic Telethon collected an impressive amount of money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Penny Arcade Expo returned for its second year, this time bigger and with more media coverage. Keenspot is working towards fulfilling its plans announced at Comic-Con. Keen announced that they have signed with Fox Television to develop Owen Dunne's webcomic You Damn Kid! for television. And both Keenspot and Modern Tales are looking for advertising sales representatives.

2004

Comixtalk had an interview with Eric Milikin, creator of Fetus X.

Owen Dunne Takes Summer Hiatus

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on June 27, 2007 - 15:05

Owen Dunne (You Damn Kid and The Beevnicks) posted that he was taking the summer off to recharge. Here's a snippet from his post:

The more time I spend on the Internet, the less creative I feel. Does that make sense?

Makes sense to me. While I enjoy the daily updates that many webcomics creators put out, there's no need to self-enforce a never-ending schedule on yourself. A break, particularly for a comic with a fan base, in many cases is probably going to be a good thing, particularly if it does help the creator re-juice the batteries some.

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Wikipedia-Free News & Views For Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on March 7, 2007 - 11:13

Before I get to today's news & views -- don't forget we had three new articles published in the magazine this week:

Terrence Marks interviews married creators, Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier. This is actually the first in a series of five such interviews we'll be publishing this month.
New columnist Brigid Alverson covers five short story web manga this month in Small Packages.
Bryant Paul Johnson returns with another installment of his historically accurate series at Comixpedia: The Antecedent.
And of course a big thanks to Meghan Murphy of Kawaii Not for doing this month's cover art.

HEADLINES

Here's a great opportunity (and a clever idea for a book): Howard Tayler is planning to publish the 2000-01 run of Schlock Mercenary in a book and he's put out a public call for guest art to include in the book. I hope he gets a wide range of interest on this - I'd love to see some of the Schlock characters done well in different styles.
Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub announce a more formal creative relationship (including Straub relocating to Dallas, TX). Help them pick a name for their new partnership here. (Also I missed that PvP character Skull has a blog now...)
Good question from R. Stevens and a good discussion in the comments there: "In a webcomic, each page of comics read is a 'pageview'. In a comic book, each page of comics read is a 'pageview'.... Has the webcomics readership outgrown the American comic book market?"

INTERVIEWS

Daily Cross Hatch blog interviews Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch.
Bookslut interviews Fun Home creator Alison Bechdel. (both interviews caught by Journalista!)

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

Mike Russell is rerunning his CulturePulp comics at his WebcomicsNation site. Most of these have appeared before in the newspaper, but not on the web in one convenient location like this - worth checking out - funny, insightful journalism in comic form.
The Comics Reporter likes Lukewarm Tales.
The Webcomicker likes the second episode of the animated PvP series. In contrast to pre-premeire complaints from PvP fans, Gilead says the voice actor behind the character Skull is the star of the production.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

FLEEN reports that You Damn Kid! creator Owen Dunne has redone his website(s) and created a video based on his Beevnicks comic.
The For Better or For Worse "Hybrid" idea apparently came from Universal Press Synidicate which convinced creator Lynn Johnston to go with it rather than simply hanging it up later this year.
FLIGHT reports on the lineup for Flight, Vol. 4. Also, Kazu Kibuishi posted cover art for the series at his website.
The Comics Reporter points to a discussion at Comics Worth Reading on this year's Free Comic Book Day (May 5th).
Over at TalkAboutComics is a post about a movie coming out with the same name (and apparently very similar content) as an existing Serializer comic. Creator Scott Ewen (the comic is Flight of the Living Dead) seems pretty stoic about it.

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Comixpedia's People Of Webcomics List For 2006

December 18, 2006 - 12:07

It's the third annual Comixpedia People Of Webcomics List. This was the hardest one yet to compile. There's a lot of webcomics and a lot of people doing interesting things in and around webcomics. This list, as in past years, is an odd effort to compare apples and oranges: artistic achievement, audience popularity, technical achievement, business savvy, news-making impact all go into the mix.

Thursday

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 9, 2006 - 12:40

It's been an exhausting week but all worth it! Let's get back to the webcomics!

NEWS & VIEWS

Neil Cohn checks out what's available in "comics making" software and concludes: they all suck. (Never having used any of them myself I don't have an opinion to offer on them.)

EVENTS

Don't forget! - Monkey Day is coming next month. Get those banana-infused webcomics ready!

INTERVIEWS

I may have linked to this before but Sequential Tart has three webcomic-related interviews this month: Gene Yang, Batton Lash, and Onezumi.

REVIEWS

Sequential Tart reviews three webcomics this month: Elf N' Troll, Gun Street Girl and Aegis.
The Onion's AV Club reviews the year's best comics (link from Journalista!)

DEAD TREES

24 Hour Comics Day is putting out a book collecting work from this year's event.
Sequential Tart does the Webcomics-In-Print thing and talks about its favorites webcomics on dead trees.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Wax Intellectual catches that Les McClaine's adventure comic, Jonny Crossbones, has put up its archives for a month at a time. WI calls it "a great story with fabulous artwork in the style of Herge..."
FLEEN beats the bandwagon for R. Stevens' Diesel Sweeties effort to invade a newspaper comics page near you.
The Onion's AV Club has a two parter series on serialization in comic books - could be informative to webcomics as well. Here's part one and part two (link from JOURNALISTA!)
You Damn Kids' Owen Dunne has a podcast called Radio Broadcast Company which recreates an old-timey radio show but with a modern sensibility.
It's like a commercial for webcomics toys. Goats creator Jon Rosenberg links to fan comic Diablo and the Necronomicon.
Shocking new photos of the Englishman, John Allison!

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Champagne (Platinum + Drunk) Duck - What's It Mean?

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on September 25, 2006 - 09:49

It's been reported that Platinum Studios has bought Drunk Duck.Ã‚ So - comic book publisher plus webcomics host equals ???

What does everyone think?Ã‚ I'll probably post more tonight when I've had a chance to sit down and sort through the news on it.Ã‚

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Keenspot Comic-Con 2006 Announcements: YIRMUMAH!, DARKEN, SORCERY 101 join! Fall Marketing Plans! SUPEROSITY TV Show (sorta)!

Submitted by Chris Crosby on July 22, 2006 - 00:18

Here's what Keenspot announced on the Comic-Con panel Friday evening...

* Keenspot News

YIRMUMAH! JOINS KEENSPOT
Comic Book Challenge ~~Top 3 finalist~~ winner D.J. Coffman brings popular webcomic Yirmumah! to Keenspot!

TV SERIES BASED ON SUPEROSITY CHARACTERS GREENLIGHTED
A new animation production and distribution company comprised of former Cartoon Network and Disney animators have ordered into production 13 episodes of Angelipups, a 3D computer-animated childrenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s series based on the show-within-a-strip from Chris CrosbyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s long-running webcomic Superosity. Broadcast and DVD rights have already been pre-sold to some overseas territories, and the series will be shopped to North American distributors soon. Crosby wrote the pilot script and has been commissioned to write additional episodes. Angelipups follows the adventures of a group of winged, candy-colored puppies who live in the sky and are responsible for keeping clouds fluffy. It combines surreal humor with moral and educational elements.

Tuesday Lunch Hour News Roundup

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on May 23, 2006 - 12:28

Bomb Shelter Comics is having a contest - to enter you need be a member of their forums and send in your version of the BSC logo. Winners get a Leftville t-shirt.

Clickwheel has a post on the "sound of art" which considers the question of music in comics. Didn't we have an issue on that recently? :)

Sparkneedle archives are now free (formerly only available to Girlamatic subscribers).

Digital Strips looks at the rotating cast of artists on the webcomic Pet Professional. Are there really four artists on that strip now? Wow...

It's been one year since the founding of Blank Label Comics.

New Peter Bagge webcomic on the "war on drugs" at Reason magazine. Cranky middle-age libertarian goodness!

Kris Straub is working on a second Starslip Crisis book and his webcomic has just hit the one year mark as well.

Fleen checks into Owen Dunne's My New Mommy webcomic. It's ending. And Fleen thinks Dunne's website navigation is confusing. Most of what Dunne has done is pretty hilarious IMO.

Tom Spurgeon rounds up reports on the recent BookExpo America event in Washington DC.

Gluemeat celebrates various Canadian holidays. I wish we had Muffin Day in the states too...

The Bone website has been redone and now features a blog from creator Jeff Smith.

And in notwebcomics news: Dorothy Gambrell's band is playing at the WYSIWYG Talent Show this evening.

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"You Damn Kid!" in today's VARIETY

Submitted by Chris Crosby on December 13, 2005 - 19:40

You Damn Kid!, the Keenspot webcomic by Owen Dunne, was briefly mentioned today in entertainment industry trade bible Daily Variety as being in development for TV. The article (currently a top story on variety.com) focuses on the development slate of 20th Century Fox Television production company Phase Two, which optioned Dunne's webcomic in September.

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Comixpedia's List of 25 People Of Webcomics for 2005

December 5, 2005 - 18:03

A simple list of people of webcomics based on their contributions to the medium in 2005. And we have no doubt that we left off someone we shouldn't have. We're sorry. We'll try harder next year.