Argon Zark!

Argon Zark!
Author(s) Charley Parker
Website http://www.zark.com
Current status / schedule Irregularly
Launch date June 1995

Argon Zark! is a webcomic, created by cartoonist and web site designer Charley Parker. The strip, drawn using a graphics tablet and computer graphics software, first appeared in June 1995. A collection, billed as a "Dead Tree Souvenir Edition", was published in 1997. The strip was last updated in September 2008.

Synopsis

Argon Zark! is about a hacker who has created a new Internet protocol, named "Personal Transport Protocol" or "PTP", which enables the physical transport of people or objects through the Internet. On his first test of the new protocol, he is joined by his "Personal Digital Assistant" Cybert, and a delivery girl named Zeta Fairlight who is accidentally caught in the action when Argon and Cybert enter the computer and the World Wide Web.

Sources

Books

  • Parker, Charley (1997). Argon Zark!, Arclight Publishing
  • Iuppa, Nicholas V. (1998). Designing Digital Media, page 149 plus CD-ROM content, Focal Press
  • Alspach, Jennifer (1998). Photoshop and Illustrator Studio Secrets, pp. 223–229 IDG Books
  • McCloud, Scott (2000). Reinventing Comics, pp. 165, 214, Paradox Press
  • Withrow, Stephen (2003). Toon Art: The art of Digital Cartooning, pp. 45 118–119, 184 Watson-Guptill
  • Hartas. Leo (2004). How to Draw and Sell Digital Cartoons, pp. 17, 60, 72, Barron's Educational Series ISBN 978-0-7641-2662-8

Periodicals

  • Kurtz, Frank (December 1996). "Panels and Frames", Internet Underground

Newspapers

Web Sites

  • Various (2005). "The Artistic History of Webcomics – A Webcomics Examiner Roundtable". The Webcomics Examiner. Archived from the original on 2005-11-24.
  • "Interview: Charley Parker". Top Two Three Films. 2004-09-14. Archived from the original on 2006-06-04.
  • "Charley Parker". Lambiek Encyclopedia.
  • Macklin, William R. (1997-06-05). "The adventures of Argon Zark, young cyber hero for the digital age". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Knight Ridder. Archived from the original on 1997-08-02.
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