For the last five years Neal Von Flue has taught comic illustration to kids. Maybe you can too!
In this feature, he writes about the importance of teaching comics to kids — how it's in our best interest to get young people aware and interested in comics as a medium while they have a passing interest in it as a genre.
New webcomic from Shaenon K. Garrity! I have no details to add to this excerpt from an interview with Shaenon Garrity and her husband Andrew Farago:
I’m writing a couple of weekly webcomics, Smithson.com and Li’l Mell, and rerunning my daily strip, Narbonic, with commentary. The fifth print volume of Narbonic will be available very soon, and may even be available by the time you read this interview. Oh, and I’ll be launching a new daily webcomic at the end of the month. I’m drawing the first strips now, so I’m pretty busy. If you want to check out my various projects, I’ve got a lot of links at my website, www.shaenon.com. (That’s right, none of the other Shaenons jumped in and grabbed that sweet URL.)
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In this episode, Dr. Haus takes a look at the webcomic The Prime of Ambition. Watch as he tries to help an androgynous black elf and white elf couple come together to realize that they both want the same things. Will Dr. Haus succeed in bringing the two sides together, or will this be as futile as trying to solve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis? Read on and find out.
This is Dr. Haus’ second review for ComixTalk; last month he reviewed the webcomic Slackerz.
In years past (2004, 2005) we undertook the monumental chore of picking out the biggest headlines of the year. This year, I took another swing at it. So without further adu, here’s the biggest webcomic headlines of 2007.
If I missed a story you think was key to this year, please post it in the comments to this article.
"A Road Less Traveled" is a series of articles by Tim Broderick detailing the path to publication of his graphic novel, "Cash & Carry" (based on his webcomic Odd Jobs, featured at Moderntales and Timbroderick.net). In this month’s article, he discusses crafting the synopis for a graphic novel.
In previous installments, Tim reviewed how he signed with a traditional publisher for his graphic novel and how he constructed his ultimately successful query letter.
Whereas writing a query letter is a creative challenge, writing a synopsis of your story is an exercise in patience.
In my first column, I took a look at the various previous attempts to define what exactly is a comic. The fact that so many people have struggled to define comics demonstrates that we have yet to do so successfully. Well, if everyone else is trying, why not me?
In order to answer the question “Is this a comic?†we need to apply four criteria: Intent of Creator; Audience Experience; Closure & Synthesis; and Use of Visual Language. Only if a work meets all four of these criteria can it be considered a comic.
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