Archive for the ‘webcomics’ Category

October 29, 2009 2

The swirls of Box 13

By Scott Cederlund in comics, webcomics

Box 13 is the new iPhone-only (right now at least) comic from David Gallaher and Steve Ellis.  So far, there are three issue's of it up on Comixology's iPhone app and all have been impressive.  With each issue, I start out thinking I know what the book is going to be about but, by the [...]

July 28, 2009 0

Guns of Shadow Valley– the webcomic

By Scott Cederlund in comics, webcomics

Last week, Jim Clark and Dave Wachter premiered their new webcomic The Guns of Shadow Valley.  Clark and Wachter have had at various cons over the last year preview copies of this comic but have decided to take it to the web where they could get the story out and do it in a way [...]

June 26, 2009 0

A southern gothic fairytale– A review of Jeremy Love’s Bayou

By Scott Cederlund in Review, comics, webcomics

The United States is a land of myths and tall tales but other than a handful of Native American stories, I don’t know if we have any honest to goodness fairy tales that originated in the States.  Maybe the closest we have is L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, with Dorothy the closest we [...]

July 15, 2008 0

Reading Webcomics the Kleefeld way

By Scott Cederlund in webcomics

Over on his website, Sean Kleefeld asks “how do you read your webcomics?“  Well, the answer is that I don’t because I’ve never found a great and easy way to do it.  Luckily for me, Sean lays out how he does it and it’s a system that I’ll probably play around with.
First off, I use [...]

March 2, 2008 0

Ellis’s long threatened webcomic– a look at Freak Angels

By Scott Cederlund in Review, comics, webcomics

It wasn’t that long ago when I would yell from the treetops that Ellis is one of my current favorite writers and and say that many of his works rank right up there among my all-time favorites Lately, his books have lacked something to me. Thanks to his online presence where he’d post [...]

December 27, 2007 0

Francesco Francavilla may have just become my favorite artist

By Scott Cederlund in comics, webcomics

2007’s Left On Mission (a great mini) was the first time I’ve really seen Francavilla’s artwork. He’s got a nice, loose but evocative line reminds me of Alfredo Alacala, Steve Bissette or some of the other great ink artists that showed up in the 70s and 80s. These artists loved ink and used [...]