Argon Zark!

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

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, ^[1] first appeared in June 1995. ^[2] A collection, billed as a "Dead Tree Souvenir Edition", was published in December 1997. ^[3] The strip was last updated in September 2019.

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.

References

1. "Argon Zark! - Tools I Use".
2. • Shaenon Garrity, Eric Millikin, Joe Zabel (2005). "The Artistic History of Webcomics – A Webcomics Examiner Roundtable". The Webcomics Examiner. Archived from the original on November 24, 2005.
3. "Argon Zark! - the Hard Copy".

• "Interview: Charley Parker". Top Two Three Films. September 14, 2004. Archived from the original on June 4, 2006.
• "Charley Parker". Lambiek Encyclopedia .
• Macklin, William R. (June 5, 1997). "The adventures of Argon Zark, young cyber hero for the digital age". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Knight Ridder. Archived from the original on August 2, 1997.

Bibliography

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

• Sunday Tech section (August 25, 1996). The Houston Chronicle
• Macklin, William H. (June 5, 1997). "Cyber Hero to the Rescue", The Philadelphia Inquirer , pp. F1, F3, Knight Ridder Wire Services
• Carrington, Penelope M. (June 6, 1997). "Argon's World", Richmond Times-Dispatch , pp. E1, E6-7, E11

External links

• Dinosaur Cartoons by Charley Parker