Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital

By Tom Spurgeon

* Pathlkrit Sanyal profiles Rachita Taneja's Sanitary Panels, a stick-figure webcomic popular in India. That comes out of the same region as the recent newspaper cartoonist that took his own life, so I'm happy to have a positive story set near there. I didn't find all of these funny, but I did some of them for sure, and that direct nature of doing comics this way is bound to rustle up some fans.

* here's something I didn't know: Jim Zub has been re-running his print comic Skullkickers on-line, and the result has according to Gary Tyrrell been fans that had no conception of the fantasy comic on paper. That's such an interesting model, a kind of digital victory lap.

* Matt Bors does whatever comics do that's like pumping your fist, about the number of comics he edited and posted that made the Slate prize short list for webcomics.

* finally, speaking of Tyrrell the second post back, I greatly enjoyed his comparison of recent design choices made by Howard Tayler and Rich Stevens. For some reason, I think there may be some significant work yet to be done in creating an orthodoxy for how to navigate such strips. As a dabbler, that still seems slightly unsettled to me in a way that strikes me as odd.
 
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