Month: August 2010

Our esteemed guest bloggers this week are none other than  Brian Moore, Alexander Danner, and Max Vaehling.

Brian Moore is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Massachusetts. His artwork has been published in Boston Globe Magazine, the Boston Phoenix, the Lowell Sun, the Middlesex Beat arts magazine,eWEEK magazine, and on various news and arts-focused websites.  He has received two Massachusetts LCC Grants for his animation work, including the animated adventure serial Teddy & Anna. He was the primary artist on the webcomic Smithson from 2005-2008. His portfolio site is at BrianMooreDraws.com.

Alexander Danner has written many short comics, including Web Cartoonist’s Choice Award winners “The Discovery of Spoons” and “Five Ways to Love a Cockroach.” His most recent project, the novella “Gingerbread Houses,” is illustrated by Edward J. Grug III and published at PictureStoryTheater.com. His comics and other writings can be found via his website.  Alexander is also co-author with Steven Withrow of the textbook Character Design for Graphic Novels, and has written numerous articles about comics for the online magazines Comixtalk and The Webcomics Examiner, among others. He teaches Writing the Graphic Novel at Emerson College, in addition to providing guest lectures on comics and graphic novels to various schools and libraries.

Max Vaehling, aka Jaehling, is a German comics creator and self-publisher. His most notable webcomic is Conny Van Ehlsing, Monster Hunter.  In 2000, Vaehling developed his first web site at dreadful-gate.de. His first regular webcomic was terrain vague (2001-2002), an urban fantasy strip based on then-popular myths about street crime and video surveillance.  In 2004, Vaehling developed a new title based on one of Reception Man's supporting characters, Conny Van Ehlsing. The German series Monsterjägerin Conny Van Ehlsing has been online at German web zineLOA since January, 2005. The English translation, Conny Van Ehlsing, Monster Hunter, was first published in early 2007.

August 23rd: Steve Troop, and Sam Costello

August 30th: Brandon Carr, and Scott Story

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Hello to all ComixTalk regulars. I’ve been invited to be another guest blogger this week to regale you with tales of the comic world. My name is John Baird and I’m the founder of the Create a Comic Project, which uses webcomics in education. For an idea of the kind of work I do, you can see my panel proposal for SXSW Interactive 2011 (shameless plug: please vote for it if you’re so inclined).

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It’s been quite a while since I last wrote for ComixTalk, but I’m very happy to be back for the coming week!  Blogging alongside me this week will be the very talented Brian Moore.  Smithson, Brian’s collaboration with Shaenon Garrity (plus Bob Stevenson and Roger Langridge) remains one of my favorite webcomics of the past.  Though technically unfinished, it’s still a great read, playful both in story and form. I highly recommend it.

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 When Cathy Guisewite started her comics career in 1976 there weren't many women making comics. 'Cathy' was one of the first mainstream comics written by and about a woman. When she announced she would be ending the long-running comic strip October 3rd it made me think about some of the webcomics I read that happen to be made by women.

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Time for another trip to the webcomics wayback machine:

2009

I reviewed Kazu Kibuishi's AMULET 2: The Stone Keeper's Curse.  Book three of the series is due September 2010!

2008

I interviewed Peter Donahue of the innovative webcomic Pear Pear.

2007

I linked to a FLEEN post about the beginnings of the now-shuttered Zuda portal from DC Comics; and I wrote about Scott Adams mentoring of webcomic creator Scott Meyer.  Plus, Tim Demeter wrote a guest post for us on BUSINESS TIME!

2006

I wrote about the now-deceased Top List at ComixTalk — while at one point toplists seemed to be a fairly active way for readers to discover and share webcomics, it seems now that they've faded in importance compared to social media and other aggregating technologies and sites.

2005

Marvelous Patric wrote about moving his webcomic Freaks N Squeaks to the Webcomics Nation hosting service.  At the time, many webcomics were actively experimenting with subscription strategies and Patric was no exception.

2004

Dedos wrote about the then now webcomic-hosting service, Comic Sherpa, offered by Comics syndication site, uComics.com.

2003

hobounicorn wrote about a Texas court decision that all comics are for kids.  I think things have probably gotten better since than, particularly online.

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