Off The Wall Comics

The webcomic Ravilob, the little town that awesome built, turns 1 yr old today.  In the past year,Ravilob.com, has grown from a four panel black and white humor comic to a full page, color comic. And these days, Ravilob isn’t just a humor comic, but works topics ranging from comedy and adventure, to sci-fi and fantasy.

Currently, Ravilob.com is looking back on the origins of it’s most popular character, Mort, the Alien Slacker. This prequel shows how Mort came to Ravilob and how he met his friends, Hugo and Whitney. You can also see fan art, guest strips, and pictures from conventions by navigating through the sites extra pages.

This was Casey William’s first attempt at drawing and writing an ongoing comic and he is not only looking forward to what advances and changes come during this second year, but would like to invite everybody to join him in the wonderful town of Ravilob.

We’ve been getting a steady stream of submissions over the past few months, and we definitely appreciate all the interest. But, for those of you looking at applying, reapplying, wondering about the first application’s progress, or for those of you who haven’t yet applied, I wanted to draw your attention to the new Joining page. We’ve put up some more specific requirements which we’re asking all of our members (current and new) to abide to for everyone’s sake.

We also moved the “on hiatus” comics to the new R.I.P. section of the site since none of them seemed to be making a comeback, and we’ve pulled their links from the dropdown so the mainpage and dropdown only have comics that are active and holding a regular schedule.

And finally, we’re asking the members for new ideas on the logo. The new header/logo is just something quick Mark whipped up in some spare time… so, be on the lookout for a change on that front in the future.

Thanks for sticking with us throughout the past year… this month does actually mark the 1 year anniversary of the groups creation. Hopefully we’ll be celebrating many, many more of these.

Chris Andersen, of “The Ego and The Squid,” emailed me a few days ago to let me know that he has published a book of 50 comics through Lulu.com and so I thought, “we have to let everyone know!” So, you should definitely go check out the book. It’s called “I’m Sorry” and I bet it’s amazing. And if you have any questions about publishing something yourself, I’m sure Chris and Lulu have enough combined knowledge to rule that sector of the universe. So check their site and if you have any specific questions about his book, what he thought of the process, etc, I know Chris is fairly quick to respond to comments on his site, so I imagine he’s about as quick at emailing you back.

Congrats Chris! You, definitely are, the man. And not the bad one which we say “damn” about… the good one. Which we love and admire.