New (?) Comics Video Podcast
by Joey Manley
Pulp Secret is an online video show about comics, with surprisingly high production values. There’s even some coverage of “artcomics” (I saw a review of Gipi’s Garage Band in one of the archived episodes, which I’ve embedded below) — which is also surprising. I’d have expected G4-level hypemongering and corporate asskissing from something like this. So it’s good to be surprised.
Um. The more recent episodes are all about Spider-Man 3. I mean ALL ABOUT SPIDER-MAN 3. Let’s hope they don’t go whole-hog on the corporate bandwagon forever, and abandon coverage of the entire comics scene as they get more popular. If they get more popular.
May 4th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Hi – I wrote and hosted that Garage Band segment, glad to hear you dug it. If you’re interested in profiles of indie work, you should be sure to check out next week’s batch of shows on Pulp Secret – Thursday and Friday will feature interviews and profiles of artists from Act-i-Vate, an amazing online collective of artists who post free, super-high quality comics online. If haven’t already, you can check out the site at http://community.livejournal.com/act_i_vate. It’s kinda addictive.
-AHR
May 5th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Hi Ana! I am very familiar with act-i-vate — they’re fantastic! Some other indie webcomics portals you might want to check out: ModernTales.com, serializer.net, graphicsmash.com, girlamatic.com (note: I happen to be the webmaster of those four); dumbrella.com; chemsetcomics.com; … and lots more.