webcomics

There hasn't been quite enough webcomics coverage on ComicsAlliance recently. Sorry. So let me welcome you to the first of an ongoing, weekly column where we round-up some recent updates to comics around the web. As this is the first of the round-ups, there are no doubt some excellent comic that may have fallen through the cracks...

Though The Legend of Zelda videogame franchise has received a few official comic book and manga tie-ins over the years, some of the most impressive illustrations of Link, Princess Zelda and company have emerged from the world of fan art. For fans of Penny Arcade, co-creator Mike (a...

In this week's comics-related Public Service Announcement by Kevin Church and artist Sandra Lanz, the cast of the webcomic The Rack discusses what you can do with your old (and unwanted) comics to help others. To read the continuing adventures of the Panels crew, check out The Rack, written by Kevin Church and drawn by Benjamin Birdie at therackcomic...

Upcoming: As a reader it takes a lot to get me excited about a variant cover. Chew's scratch n' sniff gimmick for an SDCC issue seems like the sort of thing worth standing in a line for... if it indeed smells like Buffalo wings. Awards: The 2010 Webcomic List Awards, which are presented as a webcomic satirizing a typical TV awards show, are online...

Some webcomics revel in the perverse and the ugly. Others try for cute and sweet. The Bunny System does both. It adopts a 'spoon full of sugar' philosophy. The actual content of the comic is violent, nihilistic, and often defiantly cruel. Some panels mention getting letters of protest from readers...

Some kinds of comedy works with sparkling lines, precisely timed with flawless delivery. The laughter is a direct result of how unexpected the lines are, and how well the whole bit comes together. Other kinds of comedy, especially more modern comedy, is more about awkwardness...

After Zuda Comics announced at the end of April that they were closing down competitions after nearly two and a half years, the future looked uncertain for the DC Comics webcomic imprint, and when DC announced digital comics distribution on the iPad, iPhone and PSN last week -- including Zuda content like "High Moon" -- it raised even more questions about the imprint's future... Read Mor

The much ballyhooed announcement of the Apple tablet finally arrived this Wednesday, along with the slightly unfortunate name "iPad" and details on what will essentially be a giant iPhone, but with no phone. There's been a lot of speculation about what this will mean for the digital distribution of comics, much of which was rounded up at CBR and later at Newsarama, while Rich Johnston tr

If you don't know what "xkcd" is, then welcome to the internet; you must be new. The spectacularly popular strip about "romance, sarcasm, math and language, quite simply dominates the world of webcomics, scoring up to 70 million page views in a month...

"High Moon," the horror western webcomic that won the first monthly online competition at DC's Zuda Comics, released its first print volume this week. David Gallaher and Steve Ellis, the creative team behind High Moon, talked with ComicsAlliance about the evolution of the series, where it drew its inspiration, and new season of the webcomic that launches tomorrow...