We want to remind you that voting for the Harvey Awards closes tonight at midnight, so get your votes in now if you haven’t already. Please remember that only comic book professionals – those who write, draw, ink, letter, color, design, and edit comic books and graphic novels – are eligible to vote. All you…
Yowza! Another con comes to a close, and a lot of hi’s from the usual gang of idiots, renewals of acquanitances (hi Cooch!), the continuted con conversations– you know, the ones which you pick up again as soon as you see the person you haven’t seen since the last convention, and so on. We’ll have…
PvP Vol. 5: PvP Treks On By Scott Kurtz Image, June 2008, $14.99 Image is a comic-book publisher, and sees everything through that lens. So, for them, this is a book âÂÂcollecting issues 25-31 of the hit comic strip series,â as the cover proclaims. For most of us, though, PvP (http://www.pvponline.com/) is a daily comic…
Sure, people give Garfield a lot of flack, but after Scott Kurtz of PvP received a mysterious package from Garfield creator Jim Davis, you can bet that the famous orange cat — and his creator — have a friend for life. Over on the PvP site, Kurtz describes the gift he received from Davis in…
How to Make Webcomics goes on sale later this month, but CBR managed to track down the book’s authors, PvP creator Scott Kurtz and cabal of webcomickers known as Halfpixel, for a great discussion of why the book is necessary, who it’s intended for and the state of the comics scene today. “I’ve toyed with…
At San Diego, DC’s new online project, Zuda Comics, was handing out lots of postcards that cartoonists could fill in as a sort of tryout for their website so that you could get all the advantages of DC’s name recognition and traffic. Scott Kurtz, whose PVP webcomic gets about twice as much traffic as DC’s…
Something to noodle around with this weekend: you, too, can learn how to ink digitally. Skull the Troll – okay, Scott Kurtz in a Skull hat – shows exactly how he inked this PVP strip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMkA_i3qx5A Now you can do it yourself! Not included: a $2500 Cintiq monitor.
