| A Deviant Ghostrunner! |
[Mar. 24th, 2013|12:22 pm]
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Last year an unusual webcomic-teamup took place, but not before now we found it safe to publish the news to the general public as a whole!
Pam Harrison of A Deviant Mind obviously believed her futuristic comic was lacking in terms of pure destruction, because she sought out and teamed up with James L. Dyar of the comic Grin-N-Spirit, and the two of them sat down and co-wrote two chapters of A Deviant Mind, two chapters that introduced Jim's Ghostrunner-character into the frey!
The chapters can be found here and here.
It's always interesting to see two different comics team up, especially when one constantly rides the edge of multiversal destruction and the other deals in intrique and action in a futuristic setting... now thast you think about it, the team-up is obvious, and the writers manage to mix up their worlds in the very plausible combination that only adds to the the world of A Deviant Mind (not affecting Ghostrunner's universe to my knowledge as this may be a one-sided extended cameovisit).
Rumours has it that A Deviant Mind survived the team-up and is still ongoing, whether it survived unscathered and relatively intact you better check out for yourself. |
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| Webcomics Offline |
[Mar. 2nd, 2013|10:10 pm]
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We interrupt this irregulary unscheduled broadcasting of cameo- and crossover related news with a service message
As of March 1st a new site, a spin-off the Archive, has been launched. Whereas the Archive deals with the continuing crossing over and referencing between the webcomics of the world, this new site will deal with the more hardcover version of webcomics… the printed editions of them as a matter of facts.
The site I’m talking about is Webcomics Offline
WO serves as a portal to all the individual stores of the various webcomics, collecting and linking directly to them and individual books they contain, creating a larger overview of what’s available in the form of webcomics in print out there.
Why?
I’ve always been a fan of the school that says “The only way to make a good webcomic better, is to have it in print, able to be read when you want it wherever you want it, laid pack and with your feet up”, and besides this fact, buying the books by your favourite artists is also the best way to show them how much you like their work and webcomics… webcomics we’ve so far been reading at a regular rate on the net… for free.
So, this is intended to help bring the works of the various webcomics creators out in the spotlight, separated from their official sites where you all too often gets distracted by the comics you come to see and forget that they are also able in hardcover format, and yet you are still end up at the artists’ store, assuring that they are the ones to reap the profits for their hard work.
Hope you’ll find Webcomics Offline useful as a future reference and will stop by to comment, review, rate and help with information to keep the site ever expanding.
- Hogan |
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| The Anniversary I forgot... |
[Feb. 15th, 2013|11:14 pm]
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Around this time of the year there’s something there’s a special event I usually never overlook and tend to celebrate in at least my own meager ways, sometimes even going as far as publically (if you can even call it that with this blog) announcing it.
This year I’ve been under a heavy case of overwork and on top of that I’ve had to deal with sickness over the last week or so, which again has caused me to slip behind on almost everything.
This has caused me to totally forget to celebrate the 8th anniversary of The Webcomic Crossover & Cameo Archive which have been my first and foremost hobby and entertainment for just as long… sad but true, but instead something else happend...
SOMEONE ELSE CELEBRATED IT FOR ME!
Imagine my surprise when I did my checkup on a bunch of my daily webcomics, trying to catch up what I’d fallen behind on, and suddenly encountered several comics whose updates revolved around the same subject, all in order to celebrate the Archive’s anniversary in which must have been a coordinated effort by the artists involved!
Rarely have I been so genuinely touched, it means a lot to me that somebody went through all of this to celebrate this project of mine, showing that, despite its relatively internet anonymosity, it has had its impact over the years, none of the work put into it having been for naught :)
Thanks Joff, M., KAM, and not to forget, CD Rudd who timed my, much treasured, cameo nicely.
All this means a lot to me. |
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| Wedding ahead! |
[Nov. 17th, 2012|11:27 pm]
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Though its not cameo or crossover-realted per se, I would like to take the time to congratulate Phillip and Cassie of Times Like This whom, from this strip on, are now officially engaged to be married some time next year!
But hey, wait, this IS cameo-related in a way, because Thomas Overbeck has "threatened" with the chance of invitations for the wedding being send out to other artists with a chance of their characters making appearences at the event! :o
Guess only time will tell if he makes good on that threat, but congratulations ot the new webcomic-couple anyway! :cheers: |
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| Doc is at it again! |
[Nov. 17th, 2012|09:21 pm]
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After a couple of years without introducing us to the Halloween shenanigans that usually involves a load of cameos or references to webcomics across the net, Doc Nickel, artist, artist of said paintball-swelling wacky webcomic called The Whiteboard, last year took up his Halloween cameofest once again... and he follows through again this year!
You can say much about Doc, but beating a dead horse is not one of the things!
Where the Halloween Cameo Parties in the comic is without doubt a recurring annual theme, albeit with a couple of years hiatus, he really knows how to make the most of it without repeating himself necessarily.
There's been years where the characters from other comics arrived to the party as themselves, there's been years where characters arrived dressed up as characters from other webcomics, and finally this year where the whole cast dressed up as characters from various comics!
It's artists' abilities to renew themselves, especially with regard to the use of cameos, that makes tracking them a fun job more than a chore :)
Also, on the subject of Halloween... the Halloween Cameo Caper of 2012 has now run most of its due course and its been a regular blast to follow!
If you didn't manage to follow the crazy haphazard antics and the entwining storylines while they took place, now might be a good time to catch up. As usual all strips have been saved for posterity at the Halloween Hub, and as something new you can also follow the Caper in a sort of coninuity at the Caper's own Webcomic Hub.
Also, true to Halloween Caper Standard, there are still comics which continue their Halloween storylines past Halloween itself, so the Caper is not fully over yet! |
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| Halloween Cameo Caper 2012 - Last Call |
[Aug. 30th, 2012|11:55 pm]
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Coming up now is the deadline for participation in the annual and much (by me at last) anticipated Halloween Cameo Caper 2012!
The setting for the Caper has been chosen, and this year we already got an interesting mix of old and new participants, as well as some interesting plot ideas rolling around in the planning stage.
Soon we will see what this Caper will bring!
If you think of participating, then you can just about make it with the deadline being on 1st of September. However, if you just would like to volunteer any characters of yours for cameoing during the Caper (the setting more than makes room for that), this is also possible.
It's Caper Time! |
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| Karabear Crossover Travels |
[Jul. 12th, 2012|11:37 pm]
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Some may remember the big multi-comic crossover events of the past 10 years, The Framed Great Escape, The Crossover Wars, The Halloween Capers as well as The Crossoverlord and Crossoverkill (stil ongoing). Some might wake screaming in the middle of the night, DEFINITELY remembering some of the above mentioned events, and yet others have not been in position to experience any of them or came late into webcomics to get into the events as they took place.
For the latter I would like to point to the latest side-installments of Karabear Comics Unlimited by Ave Messer.
After having, along with a set of other artists and comics, literally gate-crashed this year's 2012 Halloween Cameo Caper by signing up for participation BEFORE the invitation was send out, Ave decided to send the character of Tempore to the party early, by letting him take a VERY round-about trip through time and many of the previous years’ crossover projects, working his way up to 2012…
Tempore, Agent of Order, sets out to get Chaos (of Life & Death nonetheless) but is instead on a merry chase that takes him first to the Halloween Caper of 2006, into the Crossover Wars which he spends most of as a prisoner of the EOU until he is freed and able to visit the Caper of 2007, going straight to the Caper of 2008, then visiting Ringo in The Crossoverlord before plunging onwards again…
It’ll probably take Tempore some time to get to the 2012 Caper unless he gets lost of his way, so do keep an eye on his merry travels until then, he and you might learn a thing or two about Webcomic Crossover History as Ave links them all up.
… have you signed up for the Halloween 2012 Caper by the way? A bunch of artists have already signed up for a trip to the Interdimensional place of Tygris, but there’s still time if you fancy becoming a part of this year’s merry Caper Crossover Project!
Also, Ave Messer is looking for comics and artists who would like to volunteer for a large Webcomic Community Crossover Project. Contact information available through most of the above links, else take a gander at the forum first. |
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| Crossover Wars Hub Up To Date |
[Jul. 6th, 2012|11:53 pm]
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Just a quick addendum to my last post in order to mention that Zortic now has posted the last part of the WCA Hunt storyline with Classics Zortic, which means that all strips from the Crossover Wars (all 1500+ of them) once again are available on the net (either on their sites of origin or stored on the Crossover Wars Hub)!
This means that the Crossover Wars Hub is also, for the first time in almost 5 years, fully up to date! |
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| Classic Crossover Wars Zortic |
[Jun. 23rd, 2012|12:02 am]
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Anyone remember the Crossover Wars Hub? The place that was supposed to keep track of the whole shenanigans that was the major Crossover event back in 2007, storing and linking all the participating comics so none would get lost over time?
You also rememeber that when Drunk Duck last year went and redid their whole content, including how each and every link was set up, more than 50% of the links in the Hub went dead, and it took more than a month of hard work to get everything back together?
A few might even remember that even before the Drunk Duck Mayhem, the links pointing to the relevant strips in the comic of Zortic was out-of-business because the comic had been restarted and the old comic had been taken off the web...
Some have probably noticed that, along with the weekly updates of the New Zortic, the old strips of Zortic has been reposted back from the start as Classic Zortic, in weekly batches of 3-6 strips... this has actual been going on for some years...
The point? The point is that the reposting of the old strips have now reached a point where Zortic's participation in the Crossover Wars are coming back online!!!
This means that for the first time in about 4 years, the Crossover Wars Hub stand a chance of being 100% up to date over the summer! :D
So, soon you will be able to read through the whole of the Crossover Wars (all 1500+ strips) without, hopefully, encountering any dead links along the way (at least, not from the Hub), but for now you should go to the first strip of Zorti's participation in the event and keep up from there while its posted!
... when Classic Zortic reaches the end, its time to take the dive into the multicomic mayhem that was the Crossover Wars and read it all up :)
Good luck!
- Hogan |
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| Crossover out of a guest-strip |
[Jun. 4th, 2012|11:15 pm]
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As mentioned before, there's a long time between true crossovers nowadays... but they DO still happen! Yet, the latest one is unique in the way that the last strips were added 3 years after the first!
We are talking about the latest Sins / Hero In Training - crossover, or should we say: Guest-strip turned crossover?
It started way back in 2009 with this strip, a guest-strip by Pip of Sins featuring a meetup between characters from the two comics in a bar (Roleplayers rejoice!).
A funny and common enough guest-strip, but somehow the two artists were not through, and now, three years later, they've returned with the thrilling conclusion to the chance-meeting, first with this strip at Hero In Training (drawn by Pip again), and ending with this strip at Sins, this time drawn by Stefan Barton-Ross of HIT.
... and this is a story of how an ordinary guest-strip grew up and became a fullfledged crossover...
... and yours truly had to go and make some changes in the Archive.
Goodnight, and sleep tight |
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