When I look for a comic, I’m most often attracted to the things published with girls in mind. When I was younger, it was Archie. I read so many digests and individual comics (which are still in my parents basement in a large box) that I could tell you what era a story came from based on what Betty and Veronica were wearing.
And man, did I love the pin-ups in the Betty and Veronica comics.
Dave Kellett’s big break came from Keenspot, where Sheldon, a daily strip about a pre-teen billionaire, his grumpy grandpa and his mischievous talking duck was hosted, to the delight of webcomics readers everywhere. Sheldon now lives on United Media�s web site along with ten other online-only comics. Kellett, a native of Southern California, started drawing in third grade.
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James Kochalka plays a lot of video games. He quit his job (see his graphic novel Quit Your Job) and spends his time drawing Fancy Froglin for Modern Tales and American Elf as well as working on his upcoming projects. He is also a big fan of the cute aspects of Nintendo games. He cites message boards as his biggest distraction from work, though now that he has the American Elf message boards he can hang out there and pretend to work.
Kochalka recently won an Ignatz award (which he traded to Tom Hart for a bite of Pad Thai) for his Sketchbook Diaries collection. He’s also been lauded as the force behind the journal comic movement online. He’s likewise been called various names by the video game geeks he harasses on message boards, but that’s for another article.
Evolution Comics‘ second volume just hit the Internet. The online anthology of comics features new work from both upcoming and well-known artists, including the site’s creators, Dan Carroll and Rachel Swift.
Carroll, who works for the University of Chicago Press in subscriptions, handles the main editorial duties. He also draws Mysterious Void. Swift, who’s a site developer at the university, manages the web site itself. They both contributed to the latest volume of Evolution Comics, just recently released.
Evolution Comics‘ second volume just hit the Internet. The online anthology of comics features new work from both upcoming and well-known artists, including the site’s creators, Dan Carroll and Rachel Swift. Carroll, who works for the University of Chicago Press in subscriptions, handles the main editorial duties. He also draws Mysterious Void. Swift, who’s a site developer at the university, manages the web site itself. They both contributed to the latest volume of Evolution Comics, just recently released.
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