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Lovarian Adventures by Gabriel Fua, reviewed by Kelly J Cooper

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Do you like the details of a good story? Were you the kind of kid who sat around on rainy days scribbling notebooks full of new worlds, complete with different kinds of peoples, elaborate histories, scary and wonderful creatures, as well as magical tools and devices? If so, then you are going to love Gabriel "GeeJay" Fua’s Lovarian Adventures.

Born of a gaming campaign, but without any gamer-comic overtones, Lovarian Adventures is a fantasy comic about good guys trying to win against bad guys. There are monsters and magic users, brave warriors and sneaky rogues, plus – of course – a quest. All set in this well-detailed world, building up the complex history laid out for us by Fua. Continue Reading →

An Interview with pOnju.com’s Henry Chiu by Leah Fitzgerald

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Henry Chiu, creator and webmaster of Ponju.com, was born in Detroit, moved to California and studied at MIT. He works for a software company and spends what spare time he has on his comics – PiggyHunter! and Chiga & Kaput (completed in 2001). Over the past year and a half, he’s seen $22 in returns from his site, and had never heard of fark.com until a side conversation to this interview brought it up.

Comixpedia: So how did you start up pOnju?
Henry Chiu: Well, I used to have this nickname, "pOn ju" which means "fat pig" – more because my head was big than anything else. Continue Reading →

Cafe Press: TOS is POS

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Recently, Cafepress made some changes to their Terms of Service (TOS or member agreement) – a move that has prompted a slew of angry messages, emails, and even anti-Cafepress sites. This has also prompted many folks to look for alternatives for Cafepress. In the following article (originally a rant on my site), I offer my own Cafepress experience, reasons for leaving Cafepress and some of the math involved in the "do-it-yourself" approach that I will most likely be perusing.

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Ghost Hunters by Eunice P., reviewed by Kelly J. Cooper

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There’s nothing like a prolonged and pointless war to get a good story going. In the world of Eunice P.’s Ghost Hunters, the Conicians and the Atinians have been at war for so long that the violence has unleashed a supernatural evil upon the land.

In this world of Eunice’s creation, there are good and bad spirits – some with bodies and some incorporeal. Human souls can be trapped by whatever or whoever kills them, causing them to eventually become the same sort of evil creature as their slayer. This imbalance necessitates forces of good to deal with the awful badness. That’s how we get Ghost Hunters like Roi, our main character, a twelve year old Conician boy. Continue Reading →

An Interview with 1/0’s Mason “Tailsteak” Williams

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After three successful years, Mason "Tailsteak" Williams recently ended his metatextual webcomic 1/0 at the 1,000th strip. He currently produces comics and miscellaneous ruminations at his new site, http://tailsteak.tk.

COMIXPEDIA: Okay, a little on your background. What did you draw and write before 1/0?
TAILSTEAK: Not much. A little amateur fiction, but nothing I'd want anyone to read. 1/0 really taught me everything I now know about writing consistent characters and making decent art.

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An Interview with Sexy Losers’ Hard Artist

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Hard Artist of Sexy Losers may make his comics in Japan, but he’s a Canadian. That’s right, he’s from the East Coast, and studied in Waterloo, Ontario for a degree in psychology. Unable to find a job in the field, despite a published thesis, he made his way to Japan, where he puts his comic together.

Comixpedia: How did you end up in Japan?
Hard Artist: I came over on the JET program in 1999. I quit last year, and work in a private school near Tokyo. Continue Reading →

The Blue View by Boxjam

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I like wit, perhaps to a fault.

Everyone knows that ninety percent of everything is garbage. So I should have known, when I offered It's not Country. It's Johnny Cash, as a way of saving this great man's canon, that my friend would call me on it. I did it, of course, because Country has come to be sluggish bland pop with a twang, nothing at all like what Cash does. Continue Reading →

Movie Punks by Carrington Vanston, reviewed by Damonk

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Ah, the age old punk dilemma:

How does one offer witty comments and critiques on movies one’s seen, without looking like one’s joined the local Camp Conformity of cartoonists who already offer up movie-related spoofing or satire? Easy – by offering up stereotypical responses that involve violence or uninspired insults, and that have nothing to do with the movie at all, beyond maybe its name.

Wait. That’s not punk at all, is it?

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