Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Your Eternally Fickle Funny Cartoon Creator

Like most football fans, I'm exceptionally fickle towards players. We jeered Billy Woods when he was at Shamrock Rovers but lavished him with praise once he togged out in a Cork City jersey again. Of course, this fickleness has never been so obvious than in the last two days. Yesterday Stevie Gerrard was a greedy bollocks and a Judas. Today he is a God again. It was an amazing and dramatic u-turn.

Anyway, back to the world of funny cartoons and online comics. Over at Voices In My Hand, Bill has announced that Zoinks Magazine is making a return to print. The magazine is aimed at promoting online comics and should be worth a look.

According to Comixpedia, T Campbell is updating the online version of his History of Webcomics series. This is in preparation for the upcoming print version. He's soliciting for feedback at his blog.

Also spotted on Comixpedia - Creative Comix are a small syndication company serving the alternative press market. They seem to have a number of webcomics on their books, even though there does seem to be some doubts over their creators agreement. The main sticking point is that they want exclusive rights to control online syndication, which is not something most webcomic creators would be willing to give up. In the end, it would boil down to us having to ask permission to post our toons to this site and/or our free cartoon feeds. Now, by all means, they'll probably be happy to allow that but you never know when these things could turn sour. Really, I think there should probably be some more clarification on these issues and on merchandising. Other than that it's fantastic idea for anyone, like us, who is disinclined to go chasing syndication for themselves.