{"id":424,"date":"2009-04-26T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-04-26T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T19:43:01","slug":"watch-webcomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/26\/watch-webcomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Webcomics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I attended the first ever New England Webcomics Weekend<\/a> (NEWW).\u00c2\u00a0 It was pretty fun.\u00c2\u00a0 It was billed as the first comic convention (in the U.S anyway) that was all webcomic artists – nobody who works mainly or solely in the print realm.\u00c2\u00a0 Given how popular webcomics have gotten this decade, it’s surprising that there hasn’t been an event like this before.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s been interesting to me, in fact, is the way that webcomics have had a presence at various kinds of fan conventions.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve been at comic conventions, sci-fi cons, anime cons, and even some computer\/software cons.\u00c2\u00a0 They seem to appeal to a wider audience that comic books typically have reaching perhaps the kind of audience that newspaper comic strips have in the past (of course, as the newspaper industry seems to be dying a slow death, those strips’ audience is shrinking).\u00c2\u00a0 Now a critical mass has been reached or passed, and webcomics fandom itself may spawn multiple gatherings (there’s already talk of doing something similar in the Pacific Northwest).<\/p>\n

Check out the NEWW site<\/a> to see who was there (it’s a long list).\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t bother checking out the forum on the site – it was overrun by spammers just after the event happened.<\/p>\n

I volunteered to videotape a few of the panels.\u00c2\u00a0 Below are links to the stuff I recorded – 2 panels and the webcomics awards ceremony.\u00c2\u00a0 Each video is broken into parts because of YouTube’s time limits.\u00c2\u00a0 My apologies for the lighting in some cases – I had no control over it.<\/p>\n

Panel: Print vs. Web vs. a Bear<\/strong><\/p>\n