“If you haven’t seen it yet, Shooting War’s a serialized graphic novel about the Iraq war, circa 2011 (with real audio that the writer captured in the battlefield), and was done for next to nothing.” – Larry Smith of Smith Magazine, in a Boing Boing item. Link here.
Hmm. I see not-so-intrusive advertising on the Smith site. Could graphic novels evolve into a largely ad-supported medium?
The graphic novel “Argon Zark” was started on the internet back in 1995 by the artist Charley Parker. The website claims to be “The first and longest-running webcomic.” Here is a link to the latest page to give a sense of the style and the effort involved. Parker creates his comic using Photoshop, Bryce, and Kai’s Power Tools. I was impressed when I came across it a couple years after it started. (The last update was on 09/04/05.)
Back in 1995 there was no substantial advertisement market for a freelance stand-alone website. To earn some money Charley Parker sold paper versions of his comic. A graphic novel based on the web comic is available at Amazon. Unobtrusive web ads could help some artists.
Well, Garson, once again you’re demonstrating the wisdom of shared annotations–in blogs or books. Thanks for those wonderful and highly apt links. David