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Canada's Kate Beaton scoops Best Cartoonist in this year's Ringo Award winners

Canadian comic creator Kate Beaton has won the Ringo Award for Best Cartoonist, and Best Non-Fiction Comic Work for her powerful autobiography, "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands"

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It's funny to go back and look at where the major players in the Webcomic Renaissance (tm) of the early 2k's ended up.

Really, there's four tiers (and a bucket).

First, there's Still Doin' They Thing Tier, for webcomickers that stuck to the grind and are still going strong. David Willis (Roomies!, It's Walky) is in his first full reboot of the Walkyverse with Dumbing of Age, and it's heckin' fun. Jeph Jacques is still doing Questionable Content, though he's now more mature and has gone sober. Brad Guigar is still doing Evil Inc., and shows no signs of stopping. Joe England finished Zebra Girl (and what an ending it was!), and will likely be doing more in the universe eventually. Bill Holbrook will stop doing Kevin and Kell when he has a total existence failure, and good luck getting Eric Schwartz away from either his Amiga or from Sabrina Online.

Then there's Still Doin' They Thing But More Queer Tier. There were a lot folks that realized "hey I'm not queer in some variety" over the last 20 years, and in a lot of cases this turned into something very cool in their work. Dan Shive (El Goonish Shive) has realized that he only prefers he/him pronouns because "it raises fewer questions" and is bi, and his work has turned from "no this is totally just gender-bending comedy because I'm using manga tropes" to one of the happiest queer comics on the internet. Mae Dean (Real Life Comics) realized she was trans during the lockdown, and while the schedule for RLC is as wonky as it's ever been, it's still ongoing.

Third is Fell Off. The creators of Avalon and Road Waffles and Jackie's Fridge have kinda disappeared. At least the former eventually hosted an AMA that explained he's working tech support now, and just kinda can't draw anymore. I also include Scott Kurtz in this - PvP was THE mainstream webcomic of my youth, and after his dad died, he kind of... dissolved. The whole thing is paywalled now, and AFAIK hasn't had a single update. Fourth is Got Big, with webcomickers that are now working in/have worked in animation in one stripe or another, or who are doing larger projects. ND Stevenson, Ian J, Rebecca Sugar (yes, I count The Ballad of Margo and Dread). And of course you have to include Jerry and Mike of Penny Arcade in here - while they're Still Doin' They Thing, they're also doing all kinds of larger projects. Of course, Dana Simpson is now doing a syndicated newspaper comic with Phoebe and Her Unicorn. Bobby Crosby's Marry Me got turned into a live action rom-com that is actually pretty damn good if you like romcoms.

And in the last tier, there's only one sad, sad person. And while I'm convinced that his self-loathing ass could be fixed with a massive load of peyote and a kick in the teeth, until then Tatsuya Ishida will remain alone in the Fucking Insane MAGA Asshole bucket.

Because he doesn't deserve a tier, that's why. (Edit: Fixed a typo.)

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Post #8

Working Bibliography

Abel, Jessica, and Matt Madden. Drawing Words, Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels. First Second Books, 2008.

Azuma, Kiyohiko. Azumanga Daioh. Omnibus ed., vol. 1, ADV Manga, 2007.

Busiek, Kurt, et al. Panel One: Comic Book Scripts By Top Writers. About Comics, 2002.

Eisner, Will. Comics & Sequential Art. Tamarac, Fla., Poorhouse Press, 1985.

Guigar, Brad J. The Webcomics Handbook. Toonhound Studios, 2014.

Guigar, Brad J., et al. How to Make Webcomics. Image, 2011.

Love, Comfort, and Adam Withers. The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics: How to Create and Sell Comic books, Manga, and Webcomics. Watson-Guptill Publications, 2015.

McCloud, Scott, 1960-. Making Comics : Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels. New York :Harper, 2006. Print.

McCloud, Scott, 1960-. Understanding Comics : the Invisible Art. New York :HarperPerennial, 1994. Print.

McCloud, Scott, 1960-. Reinventing Comics : [How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form]. New York :Perennial, 2000. Print.

McKee, Robert. Story : Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting. First edition. ed., New York, ReganBooks, 1997.

Moore, Alan. Alan Moore's Writing for Comics. Avatar Press, 2012.

Snyder, Blake. Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need. Michael Wiese Productions, 2005.

Watterson, Bill. Calvin and Hobbes. Later Printing ed., Andrews and McMeel, 1987.

Williams, Freddie E. The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics. Watson-Guptill Publications, 2009.

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From http://www.evil-comic.com/ by Brad J. Guigar

This was brought to my attention today, and it's very true.

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