http://blog.comicspace.com Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:57:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Indie developer PixelJam and James Kochalka of American Elf webcomic fame are using Kickstarter to fund a new videogame: A long time ago (maybe about four years) James Kochalka had an idea for a game. It started with a doodle of a goofy looking alien and his laser backpack. That doodle ... http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1835 Dont forget that the third Friday of every month, ComicSpace's doors are open -- and we're serving free pizza! That's tonight! 5:30 pm, 363 7th Avenue, 20th Floor, Manhattan. http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1833 Join Porter Square Books and the Boston Comics Roundtable for an evening with contributors to Inbound #4, A Comic History of Boston. Writers and Artists will be presenting their process and research from the individual stories. Signed copies will be available for purchase. Location: Porter Square Books (map) 25 White St Cambridge, ... http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1832 Just a reminder: open house tonight at ComicSpace's offices. Stop by, have pizza, meet the team and your fellow ComicSpacers, and etc. We're at 363 7th Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, NY. Doors will be open from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Hope to see you there! http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1830 Gingerbread Houses begins its fourth chapter tomorrow at its brand new home on the web, <a href="http://www.picturestorytheater.com/">PictureStoryTheater.com</a>.  2010 promises many new trials for the unfortunate family, as we enter into the next phase of our story.  Gingerbread Houses is a self-contained graphic novel, and is now halfway through its two-year ... http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1827 After enduring famine, parental abandonment, forced labor, compelled gluttony, and the brutal death of their wicked captor, Hansel and Gretel made their way home, to the loving embrace of the parents who sent them out to die in the first place.  Now, all that remains is to restore that feel-good ... http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1824 Well, well, well. What have we here? Just in time for the seasonal shopping frenzy, I suppose, Black Friday, or whatever you call it in your culture and religion, the gang at Buttersafe.com have teamed up with us to make some new t-shirt designs available. Right over here. [caption id="attachment_1802" align="alignleft" ... http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1801 [caption id="attachment_1791" align="alignnone" width="284" caption="Silly Daddy Hits 500 Webcomics. Is that a lot?"][/caption] I wrote this press release to the tune of the Terminator theme song. The comic series, "Silly Daddy," posts its 500th online cartoon November 9th, 2009. Started as a print comic book in 1991 with the birth of his ... http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1796 There's a nice article about educational videogames that includes a brief interview with my friend and colleague Alan Gershenfeld of E-Line (he sits two desks over from me, so I almost feel like a star myself, in his glorious PR radiation) about our upcoming videogame releases and general plans, here. ... http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1788 All this week, Graphic Novel Review's Derik A. Badman will be cooking food from the culinary manga series Oishinbo, as a sort of alternate means of reviewing the book. Today: an overview of the entire meal. Tomorrow: Miso soup! http://blog.comicspace.com/?p=1786