![]() ![]() ![]() With mobile devices blowing the kids’ digital book market wide open, many publishers, programmers, and San Jose startups are competing to introduce kids’ comic apps to the market. Mobile apps definitely seem like the ideal way to bring webcomics to young readers, but it remains to be seen which providers will live and which will die. Of the current crop of kid-friendly webcomics, I’m a fan of The Last of the Polar Bears, by Lindsay Cibos, which follows the lives of two polar bear cubs born in a near future where their species is nearing extinction. Kid-comics portal Kidjutsu offers a library of long-form comics which, although not necessarily designed for kids, are appropriate for younger readers, like Sarah Ellerton’s fantasy epic Inverloch and A.P. The internet already has a small canon of classic kid-friendly comics, including Adrian Ramos’s Count Your Sheep and Christopher Baldwin’s Little Dee. ![]() Kids have been on the Internet for a long time now, mostly looking for porn. But now, with every other parent handing their kids smart phones and tablets to shut them up at restaurants, the time has never been better for online comics aimed at children. Hell, with Axe Cop on the scene, there are even hit online comics by children. Not entirely unrepresented, of course in a field where math comics become mega-blockbusters and something as bizarre as “Homestuck” attracts cosplayers and slash fiction, there really is something out there for everyone. And yet there still exist near-virgin territories of webcomicking into which the enterprising artist could make considerable inroads, and here are three that strike me as particularly hopeful. That was two whole years ago.Īnd yet, despite all the thousands of comics knocking around in the tubes, some genres remain surprisingly underrepresented. Personal Quote: "All you need is love.Features Three Kinds of Webcomics I Can’t Believe I’m Not SeeingĪround the time my webcomics reading list included one comic about two married female itinerant laborers in space, one about eighteenth-century Bavarian religious politics, one that was at the time devoted to drawing gag strips based on Nancy Drew book covers, and one with a holiday installment entitled “The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas”, I started to suspect that Rule 34 had officially extended from pornography to webcomics, and there was now a webcomic on literally every subject conceivable to the human mind. When I can find the free time, I enjoy sketching, reading manga and novels, playing video games (especially RPGs), watching animation, bike rides and walks, interacting with nature, swimming, and browsing the internet.įavourite characters: Minako Aino (Sailor Moon), Raiden (MGS), Link (Zelda), Kiba (Wolfs Rain), Rikku (FFX) Utena (Utena) Some of my published works include the three-volume graphic novel series, Peach Fuzz, how-to books Draw Furries and Draw More Furries, Digital Manga Workshop, and Mangaka America.Ĭomics I've contributed to include Fraggle Rock: Tails and Tales, Domo: The Manga, Archie Comics' Sabrina the Teenage Witch (penciler on issues 92, 96, 97, and 98) and Sonic the Hedgehog (penciller on Off-Panel strip comics), and the grand prize winning entry based on Peach Fuzz in Rising Stars of Manga Vol 2. I've also taken a participated in a few community life drawing, cartooning, and animation classes. In school, I took as many drawing and painting classes as possible. My drawing and coloring skills are mostly self-taught through observation, dedication, and a lot of practice. I'm also a huge fan of animated Disney movies and wanted to be an animator before I discovered and fell in love with the medium of comics. I discovered manga and anime in my teens, which also influenced my artistic style. Growing up, I enjoyed painting realistic renditions of animals, as well as drawing my favorite cartoon characters. I've always had a love for art, and have been drawing from the time I was able to hold a crayon. Born November 9th, 1981 (sign: Scorpio), I'm a comic artist born and currently living in Central Florida.
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