Hi all and welcome to another edition of the Comics and Cartoons Mini Newsletter. For a complete list of past issues, please see the bottom of this newsletter for the list.

Whats New

The Inking Contest ends on September 17th! Thats not this monday but next Monday which means you only have one more week to get your entries in so hurry! The entries so far are fantastic so it's going to be difficult to judge for sure, but that guarentees that the winners are going to be awesome!

Jam on Toast is jamming again.

Edjumikation

I wanted to start putting little tidbits on information and common misconceptions in the newsletter. For the first edition of this I'm going to go over the difference bettween a comic Strip and a comic page.

First difference you can tell is by the name, a comic page, is simply that, a page from a comic [book]. Comic pages dont often stand lone as they are part of a larger sequence of pages comtained in a book or published online.
Pages can be done in a variety of ways as single pages, 2 page spreads as well as in a variety of panel layouts. Pages are typically done on 11X17 sized paper and so would typically fit those dimensions as a computer file, though there are exceptions to every rule of course.
Examples of pages on Deviantart are:


In order to read some comic pages you more often than not need to actually buy comic books to read any commercially done work. You can however read some independant/ Alternative (Indy) comics online. A good place to find some is on Onlinecomics.net.

A strip is a strip of sequencial images usually humorous (exceptions to every rule) and tell a complete story on their own and may or may not be part of a larger story. Such as Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley, where each strip contains a complete gag or joke, however if you read them weekly, you can see the story moves along as though part of a greater whole. Commercially done comic strips are 1 or more panels long, but generally not longer than half a page. On deviantART there are some much longer strips that can be identified as strips by the fact that they complete a gag at the end of the strip and are generally setup as a large strip (ie 1-2 panels per row).
Strips are the types of comics you would typically find in the newspapers in either the sunday funnies or as political cartoons.
Some examples of Strips are:


A great place to read a nice variety of comic strips is Comics.com. Some great titles included in there are Get Fuzzy, Pearls before Swine, Rudy Park, Peanuts, Rose is Rose as well as many many others.

Gallery News

We have been working on some solutions to some of the main problems in the comics gallery. One of the biggest being that when you look around in comics, you cant see barely anything past all of the Spiderman, Batman and other commercial comics in that gallery, They litterally flood the comics gallery. It's extreamly frustrating, I know because it took me way too long to find some pages and strips to feature here today. Hopefully, we'll have some kind of solution to this, please sit tight and we'll work on it.

The Artists Relations team (thats the Gallery Directors, Ringmaster and $Moonbeam13) have launched a Project called "Community Outreach". If you want to help be a positive member of the Comics and Cartoons Community please give this journal a read through and if you do know of anything going on in comics and cartoons please note me or email me ( misskittyoooo@deviantart.com ) and let me know. There will be a news article about this project soon, so watch out for that as well.

Previous Issues of the Newsletter

Issue #1
Issue #2
Issue #3
Issue #4
Issue #5