Chris Crosby and Darren “Gav” Bleuel, two of the four co-owners of Keenspot, have agreed to sit in the “chair” for a community interview. Post your questions (one to a post please) to this thread, moderate up the interesting ones and we’ll send the top ten questions on to Crosby and Bleuel to get their answers.
We’ll take questions until March 12th. Continue Reading
Hey there, seniorita, that’s very astute
Why don’t we get together and call ourselves an institute.
Well, I think that’s sort of how it goes, anyway. I can’t really remember. But what I do remember is that later in that same song – Paul Simon’s "You Can Call Me Al", by the way – somebody walks on down the alleyway with a roly-poly little bat-faced girl.
"So what," you ask, mouth agape and eyes quickly glazing over in the benighted absence of some sort of fast-moving things you can zap with your BFG?
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Last column I stressed the importance of starting, of making that push and getting the momentum to start your own comic project. If you don’t start, then you’ll never know what’s possible. But, there’s no need to throw caution completely out the window.
For the love of all that’s holy, create a buffer of strips/pages BEFORE you start posting them on the web.
Lizard is the professional patriarch of a young family in the state of New Jersey. He has a beautiful wife, a child, and some longtime friends who stay at his place. Like most professionals, Lizard wears a tie, goes to the office five days a week, and enjoys spending time at home. Lizard is also a lime-green, bug-eyed reptile who is — it should go without saying — aptly named.
The dream job. A job that is not only a means of survival, but also a means of sustenance. A job that is fulfilling, rewarding, a joy to go to each morning and perhaps even a disappointment to leave each evening. Everyone has an idea of their dream job, but only the lucky, lucky few have managed to land (or create) it.
As the Fates would have it, Joey Manley is a Colonel.
He’s also the Field Marshal behind the great wall of subscription-service, webcomic-related product known as Modern Tales. Having been creepy-crawling around the webcomics community scene since about mid-2000, he first started up with a webcomics reviews/interviews site called talkaboutcomics.com. Only months later, he decided that the world was ready for a subscription-based webcomics portal, even if some seemed wary of the prospect of paying for something that had "always" been free to date.
But already a few years have passed, and Manley’s dream stands tall in the garden of fruition — not only has Modern Tales endured, but it has grown, branching out to include a host (literally) of sister anthology sites, as well as promote key solo artists, too. Now, with a few new fun gifties to hand out from his bag of webcomics tricks, the Colonel takes a few moments out of his uber-busy day to respond to you, the reader, on all things webcomics, business… and chicken (seriously). Continue Reading
Spot And The Panda
"Whatever happened to Bryan McNett?"
It's a question experienced webcartoonists ask each other, now and again. It was a question many of them asked their e-mail inboxes as they pounded their desks in frustration.
In one respect the answer is easy: McNett is now a video game developer. He posted to an abortive, eponymous blog in September 2003.
But to the webcomics community, he is as remote as if he had passed to the Great Beyond. Many of today's webcartoonists don't even know who he is. Those webcartoonists who did business with him consider him a failure. Some who knew him had reason to hate him. And because he has never told his side of the story, it's difficult to balance the picture. Yet in his contribution to webcomics history, McNett may be as important as any of his successors, maybe even as important as any of the Five Horsemen. Continue Reading
Basically I have this library-esque room in our house to do the bills and work on comics and websites. Unfortunately my organization methods can leave a lot to be, oh, desired is such a strong word, how about: garnered? Anyhow today I cleaned up lots but I have a couple of piles of swag and other stuff on the floor. Time to tackle the last mountain – what’s in there? Continue Reading
Intelligent Life, created by Chris Furniss, is going on hiatus until April or May. Chris is taking a trip to Ireland in mid-March, and working on a full-length comic book about his experiences. Be sure to check out the end of Episode 4, and if you haven’t read Intelligent Life, the complete archives are free at onlinecomic.net. Continue Reading
Cayetano “cat” Garza is currently looking for a new cartoonist to take up the drawing chores on CUENTOS DE LA FRONTERA. The hope is to find someone to work with writer J. Whiddon on the CUENTOS adventure storyline that has been developed with he and Garza while Cat moves on to create a new CUENTOS spin-off series that will focus on adapting more border folk tales into comics art. Currently on hiatus, CUENTOS will relaunch once a suitable new artist has been found and a bit of a backlog of work has been created. Continue Reading
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