Webcomics Weekend

March 20-22 is The New England Webcomics Weekend

This is the first year of this (hopefully) annual event. It’s not technically a convention, theres no registration and it’s entirely free.

Out of the comics I read these are the cartoonists who’ll be there

Mookie of Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire

Paul Southworth of Ugly Hill, which sadly is coming to an end.

Randy Milholland of the sometimes disturbing Something Positive

And then comics that since I’m at home and using dial-up have recently stopped reading, but still good comics

Scott Kurtz of PvP

Scott Cloud of Boy on a Stick and Slither

Jeph Jacques’ Questionable Content

I’m rather sure I’ll be going in March, it looks to be a good time.

edit: I’m not going, somehow totally forgot thats my dad’s b-day.

Friendly Hostility Story

Friendly Hostility is a comic by Sandra K. Fuhr, who prior to FH she had the comic Boy Meets Boy. I like FH because it’s based in the real world, about real people, but they’re entirely crazy. There’s a very large cast that is balanced in terms of presence in the comic. The many story and character-arcs intertwine almost seamlessly. It’s the real world with the touch of chaos.

While the layout is the standard square of a 2 by 2 panel, and the artwork is mostly black and white, it’s very well drawn. It’s obvious that backgrounds come first and the speech bubbles later, which is really nice to know that the artwork is just as equal with story.

It’s a good comic that despite it’s randomness is very relateable.

Recently there was a Hostile Takeover Contest, where basically fans could create whatever they wanted that was Friendly Hostility related and send it in.

Slob Child from LiveJournal wrote a fanfiction piece. For anyone who reads Friendly Hostility it’s a really well done fanfic. And for those who don’t, it’s a great sampling of who the characters are.

The piece has a strong humorous voice, though the stream of conscious form can be a little hard to follow. If you’re a fan of Douglas Adams it’s definitely a piece to look at.