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2017 In Webcomics
Notable events of 2017 in webcomics. Events Awards * Eisner Awards, "Best Webcomic" won by Anne Szabla's ''Bird Boy''. * Ignatz Awards, "Outstanding Online Comic" won by Der-Shing Helmer's ''The Meek''. * Joe Shuster Awards, "Outstanding Webcomic Creator" won by Ty Templeton (''Bun Toons''). * Reuben Awards, "Online Comics"; Short Form won by Ruben Bolling's ''Donald and John'', Long Form won by Ngozi Ukazu's '' Check, Please!''. * Ringo Awards, "Best Webcomic" won by Dean Haspiel's ''The Red Hook''. * Cartoonist Studio Prize, "Best Web Comic" won by Christina Tran's ''On Beauty''. * Special Prometheus Award won by Mark Stanley's ''Freefall''. Webcomics started * January 1 — ''Live with Yourself!'' by Shen and David Mercier * January 10 — ''Leaving Richard's Valley'' by Michael DeForge * March 6 — '' My Giant Nerd Boyfriend'' by Fishball * March 8 — ''Woman World'' by Aminder Dhaliwal * March 12 — ''My Dear Cold-Blooded King'' by lifelight * March 18 — '' Dogeza de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webcomics
Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books. Webcomics can be compared to self-published print comics in that anyone with an Internet connection can publish their own webcomic. Readership levels vary widely; many are read only by the creator's immediate friends and family, while some of the largest claim audiences well over one million readers. Webcomics range from traditional comic strips and graphic novels to avant garde comics, and cover many genres, styles, and subjects. They sometimes take on the role of a comic blog. The term web cartoonist is sometimes used to refer to someone who creates webcomics. Medium There are several differences between webcomics and print comics. With webcomics the restrictions of traditional books, newspapers or magazines can be lifted, allowing artists and writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge (born 1987) is a Canadian comics artist and illustrator. Biography DeForge grew up in Ottawa and attended the University of Toronto, dropping out after two years. He lives and works in Toronto. According to DeForge, he has "always been drawing cartoons" and learned to read and draw from his parents' comic strip collections such as ''Bloom County'', ''Far Side'', ''Peanuts'' and ''Calvin and Hobbes''. He has described ''Peanuts'' as his all-time favorite cartoon strip. He read and tried to draw in the style of superhero comics until junior high and high school. He has described his early comics as "just these dinky revenge cartoons" in response to having been "picked on a lot growing up". In high school he realized that drawing could be a vocation and started drawing gig posters, initially in exchange for free entrance to concerts until he started charging for his work. He became interested in the work of Marc Bell (which he saw for first time in ''Exclaim!'') and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Bois
Jon Bois (; born September 24, 1982) is an American sports writer, video producer, and YouTuber. He is the creative director at ''SB Nation'', a sports blogging network. Bois is known for his speculative fiction works on sports, such as ''17776'', its follow-up ''20020'', and ''The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles''. He is also known for his documentary videos and their unique style. Bois's work often covers strange incidents, statistical outliers, and less popular teams. Early life and education Bois was born on September 24, 1982, and is originally from Louisville, Kentucky. From the fifth grade until high school, Bois was homeschooled. He dropped out of college after one semester. Bois worked at RadioShack sometime in the early to mid 2000s, later publishing multiple articles detailing his personal experiences as an employee. Career Bois started as an editor at SB Nation in 2009. From 2013 to 2015, Bois published "Breaking Madden," a series of articles in which he created unusua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17776
''17776'' (also known as ''What Football Will Look Like in the Future'') is a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative by Jon Bois, published online through '' SB Nation''. Set in the distant future in which all humans have become immortal and infertile, the series follows three sapient space probes that watch humanity play an evolved form of American football in which games can be played for millennia over distances of thousands of miles. The series debuted on July 5, 2017, and new chapters were published daily until the series concluded with its twenty-fifth chapter on July 15. Bois began developing ''17776'' in 2016. Because the story incorporates text, animated GIFs, still images, and videos hosted on YouTube, new tools were developed to allow it to be hosted efficiently on the ''SB Nation'' website. The work explores themes of consciousness, hope, despair, and why humans play sports. ''17776'' was well received by critics, who praised it for its innovative us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SandSerif
''SandSerif'' is a brand created by cartoonist, graphic designer and illustrator, Sandy C., which started in June 2017. Content ''SandSerif'' is a webcomic created by the artist Sandy to express feelings and experiences in his life, through dark and humorous illustrations and cartoon strips. ''SandSerif'' features a representation of Sandy as its main character; a young man without a mouth. Most ''SandSerif'' strips are drawn in black-and-white, with color only used to imagine a parallel world in which the main character is content. Development In an interview with ''The Hindu'', Sandy stated that the title of his webcomic came up as he was playing around with his nick-name and the font style Sans-serif. Sandy wrote that he enjoys being a character and doesn't want to attach his own name to it yet. "The comics are basically projections of myself on paper. It's all autobiographical." Sandy frequently states that he has difficulty expressing himself with words, and wrote that "visual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Andersen
Sarah Andersen is an American cartoonist and illustrator, and the author of the webcomic '' Sarah's Scribbles''. Biography Andersen graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2014. While attending MICA, she started drawing the semi-autobiographic webcomic ''Sarah's Scribbles'' (previously called ''Doodle Time''). She won the Goodreads Choice Award in Best Graphic Novels & Comics three years in a row for ''Sarah's Scribbles''. In 2016, she won the Goodreads Choice Award for her debut book, '' Adulthood is a Myth''. She won in 2017 for her book ''Big Mushy Happy Lump'' and in 2018 for her book ''Herding Cats''. Andersen collaborated with the novelist Andy Weir on the graphic novel ''Cheshire Crossing'', which was released in July 2019. Based on an earlier comic by Weir, the story follows Wendy Darling from Peter Pan, Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, and Alice Liddell from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at a boarding school called "Cheshire Crossing." In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Weir
Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist and former computer programmer. His 2011 novel '' The Martian'' was adapted into the 2015 film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott. He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016 and his 2021 novel '' Project Hail Mary'' was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Early life Weir was raised in Milpitas, California. His father, John Weir, was a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, and his mother was an electrical engineer. He was an only child, and his parents divorced when he was eight. Weir grew up reading classic science fiction such as the works of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. At the age of 15, he began working as a computer programmer for Sandia. After high school, Weir studied computer science at the University of California, San Diego, though he did not graduate. He worked as a programmer for several software companies, including AOL, Palm, MobileIron, and Bli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheshire Crossing
''Cheshire Crossing'' is a fantasy webcomic written and originally illustrated by Andy Weir from 2006 to 2008, and later illustrated by Sarah Andersen for Tapas (syndicate), Tapas from 2017 to 2019. The latter version was published as a graphic novel by Ten Speed Press, an Imprint (trade name), imprint of Random House, in 2019. The story, taking place in the early 1900s, takes characters from ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wizard of Oz'', and ''Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan'', and follows Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Alice Liddell, Dorothy Gale, and Wendy Darling after they are united at "Cheshire Crossing" by the mysterious Dr. Ernest Rutherford and Miss Mary Poppins (character), Mary Poppins (renamed Miss Poole in some versions) to study their abilities to travel between worlds before facing the combined forces of the reconstituted Wicked Witch of the West and Captain Hook. The graphic novel was adapted into an audiobook, audio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quimchee
Stephanie Quimco, better known as Quimchee, is a comics artist. She is author of WEBTOON series ''I Love Yoo'', published since 2017. The webcomic tells the story of Shin-Ae Yoo, a young girl who finds herself the subject of fascination of half-brothers Yeong-Gi and Kousuke. In 2018, Quimchee has received Ringo Awards The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Ringo Awards, are prizes given for achievement in comic books. They are named in honor of artist Mike Wieringo and they were founded by the Reisterstown, Maryland-based Cards ... for Fan Favorite New Series and was nominated as Best Webcomic, both for ''I Love Yoo''. She also won the Ringo Awards for Favorite New Talent in the same year. References {{Comics-creator-stub Webtoon creators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love Yoo
Stephanie Quimco, better known as Quimchee, is a comics artist. She is author of WEBTOON series ''I Love Yoo'', published since 2017. The webcomic tells the story of Shin-Ae Yoo, a young girl who finds herself the subject of fascination of half-brothers Yeong-Gi and Kousuke. In 2018, Quimchee has received Ringo Awards The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Ringo Awards, are prizes given for achievement in comic books. They are named in honor of artist Mike Wieringo and they were founded by the Reisterstown, Maryland-based Cards ... for Fan Favorite New Series and was nominated as Best Webcomic, both for ''I Love Yoo''. She also won the Ringo Awards for Favorite New Talent in the same year. References {{Comics-creator-stub Webtoon creators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio LICO
A studio is an artist or worker's workroom. This can be for the purpose of acting, architecture, painting, pottery (ceramics), sculpture, origami, woodworking, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, industrial design, radio or television production broadcasting or the making of music. The term is also used for the workroom of dancers, often specified to dance studio. The word ''studio'' is derived from the , from , from ''studere'', meaning to study or zeal. The French term for studio, ''atelier'', in addition to designating an artist's studio is used to characterize the studio of a fashion designer. ''Studio'' is also a metonym for the group of people who work within a particular studio. :uz:Studiya Art studio The studio of any artist, especially from the 15th to the 19th centuries, characterized all the assistants, thus the designation of paintings as "from the workshop of..." or "studio of..." An art studio is sometimes called an at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
