I know a lot of you are probably asking at what point are things finally going to go horribly wrong. Well, you’ll just have to wait and see!
I know a lot of you are probably asking at what point are things finally going to go horribly wrong. Well, you’ll just have to wait and see!
At last, you can have all of the rich, chocolaty goodness that is the SubCulture webstrip in the palm of your hands!
SubCulture: The Webstrips Volume 1 collects the first 200 webstrips from this site, originally posted from February 2008 to November 2009. Follow all of the hijinks of Jason, Noel, Arthur, Babs, Kim, Bart, Travis, and Skip and the rest of the Kingdom Comix crew, from their participation in a cosplay party to their using gamer-speak as innuendo for sex! Also included in this collection are guest strips from Jim Mahfood (Grrrl Scouts), Matt Kindt (3 Story), Jeff Schuetze, (JEFBOT) Fred Chao (Johnny Hiro), Super Ugly, David Dwonch, Erica Hesse (The Key), and many others, plus all of the never-before collected pinups from the original mini-series by the likes of Rob Ullman, Cal Slayton, Dustin Evans, Justin Bleep, some of the guys from Squid Works, and others. All told, this is 96 pages packed with peanuts in a handsome volume! Better yet, the book includes an Introduction by Danielle Corsetto (Girls with Slingshots)! This book is only ten bucks, and we think that it is worth every penny. We hope you will too!
We’re expecting this book to be arriving from the printer in early March. If you order now, we’ll ship the book for free (or $3 off for international destinations), and throw a few SubCulture goodies from our swag box into the mail as well.
This is all part of our way for saying THANKS for being supporters and followers of the book.
To order, go to the SubCulture Store!
Hi everyone! I thought you would enjoy a look at our tentative cover for our upcoming webstrip collection–it should be out sometime in March, if everything goes to plan.
Hey, in case you haven’t heard, I will be writing one of the Shrek stories in Ape Entertainment’s Free Comic Book Day book in 2010–Ape will be publishing a number of Dreamworks comics in 2010, including Shrek, and I am hoping to be able to write a few more stories as well–I have another that I am working on as we speak.
So while it is still a few months off, do me a favor and put this book on your “to get” list. Hey, it’s free!
Since we are quickly running out of the 2000s, I thought I would be a lemming and put my top 10 comics/OGNs of the decade together to share with everyone. After some serious thought, here’s what I came up with, in order of preference:
1. Usagi Yojimbo (Dark Horse): It’s been my top comic for years and years, and the 2000s is no exception. It’s on the top of my pile every time it comes out, and I re-read the entire saga from the beginning about once a year. It’s the best comic that most people have never read. I hope folks correct that error.
2. Y The Last Man (Vertigo):The best thing that Vertigo has ever put out, in my opinion. Consistently strong and emotional, and it was a complete story with a solid beginning, middle, and end.
3. Yotsuba&!(ADV/Yen Press): When you just want to feel good about life, read this. I rarely laugh out loud when reading comics, but I giggle with every story of this manga series. Ask my wife. It has a refreshing innocence that makes you forget about mean, greedy people, at least for a few minutes.
4. B.P.R.D. [/i](Dark Horse): There is nothing even remotely bad I can say about that book. It’s been consistently gripping since the beginning, and Guy Davis is bloody brilliant. In fact, I give it a slight nod over the Hellboy books.
5. Naoki Urasawa’s Monster (Viz): Yeah, it released in Japan in the 1990s, but it’s US release was this decade so I am counting it. An amazing 18-volume psychological thriller, with each volume a page-turner. Everyone should read this manga. Everyone.
6. Walking Dead (Image): I was a latecomer to this series, but it is gripping and suspenseful, and heads and shoulders better than any other zombie stuff out there. I worry a little bit about ultimately where it is going to end up, but the ride has been fun so far.
7. X-Statix (Marvel): I still mourn the cancellation of this book. Milligan and Allred had something that was so much different than any other thing that Marvel was doing at the time. It was dangerous, unpredictable, and a breath of fresh air as a result.
8. Super Spy (Top Shelf): My favorite OGN of the decade, hands down. Matt Kindt’s art is truly amazing, and he knows how to write melancholy arguably better than anyone in the business right now.
9. Pyongyang (Drawn & Quarterly): A close second on the OGN list. Guy Delisle is an amazing storyteller, and this is a lovely look at the inner workings of North Korea. Being a political scientist in real life, I am a sucker for politically-oriented books, and this one tops the list for the decade.
10. Conan (Dark Horse): Consistently good, consistently fun, and true to the original books. This is the way that Conan stories truly should be told.
I encourage you all to post your top 10 list as well. I’d love to see what everyone is reading and enjoying!
Stan’s creator coop imprint, the Squid Works has officially released Stan’s latest printed collection of one of his other comic strips, The Wang in The Wang: Erection Year
“What if Charlie Brown grew up?” is how Wade Busby of The Guide described Eugene Wang, the protagonist of Yan’s graphic novel series, The Wang. “And what if Charlie Brown was Asian?” is the rhetorical question Yan dares to ask in this latest bound edition. The result is this attractive, square-bound collection — a pu pu platter of inside jokes that give readers a flavor of what it is like to grow up as an Chinese-American in a white bread town like Denver, Colorado. In addition to the introduction of Dildo, Kristin’s popular new pet wiener dog, story lines revolving around insider trading in the stock brokerage industry, … and the US Presidential erection (ahem) election run of Eugene’s college roomie and self-made motivational speaker, George, will leave readers full of laughter, and hungry for more an hour later.
ISBN/EAN13: 0975504185 / 9780975504185, 60 pg. b&w 8.25″ x 6″ book with color, square bound cover. Mature. $6.95 US. Shipping December 2009.
A collection of strips by Stan Yan
…and I think this time it is my fault. In my attempt to delete more of the spam that we’ve been getting attacked with in recent days, I think I inadvertently deleted some important script on our header. I’ll try to get it fixed shortly, although I am out of town until late tomorrow.
Sorry about the mess!
The fine folks over at thewebcomiclist.com are taking nominations for their 2009 Webcomic List Awards, and, if you are so inclined, we were hoping that you might consider nominating our fine strip in a category or two! 
Here are their categories:
Best Comic
Best Writing
Best Color Art
Best Black and White Art
Best Non-Traditional Art
Best New Comic
Most Improved Comic
Best Gag-a-Day
Best Longform Comic
Best Lead Character
Best Supporting Character
The Innovation Award
If you all think that SubCulture is worthy of any of these awards, we’d love a nomination. All you have to do is go to HERE and scribble a few names in.
Do us a favor–if you nominate us, let us know here on the forum.
Thanks!
I’ve gotten a couple of different emails from folks saying that the site seems to have some sort of security issue–that at the top of the page, on occasion, a spammed ad will appear, sometimes multiple times at once, which pushes our content down the page quite a bit.
I’ve checked the site from a number of different computers and have never seen this happen. Has anyone else seen this on the site?
I sent an email to my “tech guy” just in case.
UPDATE: We’ve indeed been hacked, and are working on it as we speak. Hopefully we’ll get it taken care of in the next hour. Thanks for your patience!
UPDATE 2, ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: We found the problem and hopefully have taken care of it. If it rears its ugly head again, someone let us know!
UPDATE 3-D: Looks like this is a recurring problem which I had to fix again this morning (Saturday). I’ll keep checking my header file regularly until I can figure out a permanent fix. I’m pretty sure this is a Wordpress issue and not someone hacking into my system specifically. It also appears to only directly affect readers who have their scrips disabled, which explains why I was never able to see it.
UPDATE (Sat 11:40am): Added a couple of other security Plug-ins. Here is hoping this keeps the evil from coming back.
