Author: Austin Sanders

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Graphic novel recommendation – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Today we’re going to be turning our focus onto a graphic novel, which is another very interesting art form. Over the years there’s been one graphic novel that the entire team loved and agreed on to be really good, Scott Pilgrim, to be more precise, it’s the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World publication.

Graphic novel recommendation – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

You might have heard about Scott Pilgrim as there was a movie made based on this very novel that we’re going to be talking about today.

Here’s the movie trailer. Movie is just as fun as the novel, props to Edgar Wright for making an amazing adaptation to the big screen, although not everyone would agree that it is an amazing adaptation. There are always those who complain. What we’re going to be talking about today is the graphic novel itself.

Book (and the movie) are very fun. It follows the story of Scott Pilgrim and his fight against the league of 7 evil exes of Ramona Flowers. Ramon Flowers is a girl that Scott likes. Entire novel is full with great jokes and bases around video game inspired graphics. References to video games, both modern and classic, are abundant. It’s a fun comic that I and the whole team wholeheartedly recommend.

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Comic book authors that talk about tragedy – Candorville

Most people thing that comics books should be what their name suggest, comical in some sense. That’s at least what a couple of people from my life seem to be thinking. In reality there are many different genres of comics that can be found out there. I’m personally a fan, or maybe I shouldn’t say fan, an appreciator of a good comic strip that features tragedy. Well today we’re going to be talking about one such comic, Candorville Tragedy Comic Strips.

Comic book authors that talk about tragedy – Candorville

Candorville is a comic book strip of artist Darrin Bell. It is a syndicated comic book strip that has been published for over 10 years now. Launch date was sometime in 2003 I think. We’ve been reading it here at Blank Label Comics for the past 5 years at least.

Comic books are offering tragic and unsatisfying twists at the end, which is why we love them. Candorville has the propensity to talk about political issues, which is why it got into trouble and was even denied publication in some right-leaning newspapers. Oh, that’s right, Candorville has been syndicated and featured in multiple newspapers for the better part of its existence. It all started in a student newspaper at UC Berkley. Here’s a link to the web archive of the Candorville Tragedy Comic Strip. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

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News

Comic book front-end updates and plans

Here’s a quick status update on the status of our comic book front-end. We’ve been working on it hard for the past couple of months and we can finally say that it’s in the final stages of implementation here on the website. Those of you who are impatient, please note that everything was done from scratch. We wanted to do things the right way, according to our vision, so it took a bit longer.

Comic book front-end updates and plans

So the way the comic book reader is going to work is by imitating an ebook reader, only instead of book pages, each flip is going to be a comic book. It’s nothing revolutionary, but it’s also not something that’s going to be standard.

We’ve added our own little twist to the entire thing. There are going to be special effects, the ability to open up comic books fullscreen. You could change themes, activate dark theme if you’re reading during the night, and things like that. It was difficult to incorporate such a thing, especially since the comic book reader framework has to change the background of comic books themselves, but we thing it was worth it. Currently we’re in the process of testing all the features, ironing out all the bugs, and we expect a live beta version launch sometime next month. Stay patient until then and you’ll finally be able to enjoy in some of our very own comics, made here at Blank Label Comics.

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Teams favorite comics #1 – Cyanide & Happiness 2890

Cyanide & Happiness is one of the well known comic book strips out there. For that reason we’re not going to be talking about them in particular, but we are going to be talking about one of the favorite comics of theirs, the one that talks about the “Loan Ranger”. It’s a classic dad joke type of comic that’s been a huge hit here at Blank Label Comics.

Cyanide & Happiness comic #2890

Comic that we’re going to be talking about today can be found over here. All the credits go to the Cyanide & Happiness team. In this installation of their comic the main protagonist is a ranger from the wild west.

He is met by a lady who has been robbed and she asks the ranger for help. Ranger says he won’t be going after the robber, but he does offer to repay the stolen 2$ to the lady out of his own pocket. When the lady asks how can she ever repay, he proclaims “with interest”. Comic ends with the name of the ranger showed in a sunset. Punchline is the name, ranger is called the “Loan Ranger”. Get it? It’s a word play type of pun. A classic dad joke. Caldir is of course the one who brought our attention to this comic. It’s fun, clean, and I definitely recommend it to you if you’re looking for a quick laugh.