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Forty Five review
Submitted by Delos on December 27, 2009 - 09:00
I’ve been waiting for a chance to actually read Forty Five by Andi Ewington and I’m taking this opportunity to write a review on a pdf the folks at Com.X provided. Rather than repeat the obvious, I’m going to assume you’ve read at least one of the interviews and understand the basics. (If you want to read more of the interviews with Andi, you can start here.)
There is a Terminology page with about thirty terms; some of them you probably know like AWOL or HAZMAT but others are very creative like S-Book, Flambo and Norman. All of them make perfect sense within the setting context. There is also the nice touch by the use of the standard disclaimer: names-and-locations-have-been-changed-in-some-instances. It’s a small detail that added to the feel of the book.
Sam/Sammy
Submitted by Steve Troop on October 1, 2009 - 03:03
Real short post here today… I’m rewriting the script, slowly but surely, and have had to address, yet again, the whole Sam/Sammy debate.
The Truly Killer Art of Tim Lane
Submitted by Jason Thibault on September 7, 2009 - 23:05
Tim Lane blew me away earlier in the year with his hardcover collection of stories, Abandoned Cars which was published by Fantagraphics. His intricate linework married to gritty stories of loners, criminals and doomed lovers is a match made in heaven for those of us that like our tales to be a little harder. On top of that he uses his incredible draftsmanship for illustration work as well.
I was excited to land an interview with him for our Masters of Ink series. He was extremely helpful in getting me some new artwork and comic pages to present to you.
Comics And Time
Submitted by Scott Story on July 14, 2009 - 20:19
I pulled this from Warren Ellis’ blog. Ellis is a bit of a hero to me, and this article is particularly well conceived:
Scrapyard is Inbound
Submitted by Howard Tayler on May 4, 2009 - 01:22
I got a phone call on Friday. A nice man with a heavy asian accent asked me if my address was a business or a residence.
Scrapyard Pre-orders Opening on Friday the 27th
Submitted by Howard Tayler on March 23, 2009 - 20:06
In a recent interview with Brian and Justin of Comics Coast-To-Coast I said that pre-orders would open in “about two weeks.†(aside: I also said some other stuff. Listen to the podcast! My bit begins about 10 minutes in.)
What I've been up to this last week
Submitted by Terrence Marks on March 9, 2009 - 06:10
Normally, I don't do this, but it's been kind of a busy week for me.
Firstly, after six months of downtime, The Nice's forums have been brought back and upgraded from UBB6 to phpBB3. There was a server crash in October that brought our old forums down, so we've moved to a more stable and maintainable system - and from a collection of thousands of text files to a real database. The old forum is available in read-only mode for private messages (which couldn't be migrated) and anything else we may have missed.
Secondly, the entire archives of Unlike Minerva are back online. For the last few years we only had an edited version up, which didn't include the original pre-restart beginning. Since we've got the tenth anniversary coming up on March 15th, it's only fair to show what it's the anniversary of. This also puts Unlike Minerva and its sequel, You Say it First at over 2000 comics, combined.
Lots of good feedback, keep it comin’
Submitted by Howard Tayler on January 20, 2009 - 12:17
There has been lots of good feedback in the comments under the “Musing upon a site redesign†entry. Please don’t be intimidated by the large number of posts. Go ahead and reply with a comment on that entry. And if you’ve got a cool idea for something I’m not doing, by all means add that.
The Webcomic Overlook #64: Nawlz
Submitted by El Santo on January 14, 2009 - 14:15
I realize that I’m probably going to alienate a huge portion of my readers here, but I find xkcd to a rather hit-and-miss comic. This is coming from someone who has an engineering degree. (The again, as Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory says, “Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.â€)
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