I had a quick chat with Katie Sekelsky about her current webcomic Magpie Luck. Magpie Luck is a science fiction comic strip about a lady time traveler named Tristan and her amorphous gas cloud companion. It's charming! Sekelsky has been making comics since high school and she's really put a lot of her learning into this new project.
I had a quick interview with Ben Costa at SPX. He has the first volume of his webcomic out in print as Pang The Wandering Shaolin Monk (he won a Xeric award to put out the book) and he's publishing volume 2 of the comic on the web.
I had a chance to do a quick interview with Chris Impink at Intervention. Chris is the artist for a new webcomic — Sledge Bunny — his previous project was the webcomic Fragile Gravity. Sledge Bunny is about roller derby and this is a great point to jump in — a healthy archive has set up the characters and now things are about to happen! Chris is also one of the founders of Super Art Fight – a live art competition, sort of a combination of WWF and pictionary. Chris and tag-team partner Jamie Noguchi won their bout last Saturday night (No kidding on the WWF part — opponent Bryan Prindeville picked Jamie up and his tag team partner Kelsey Wailes duct-taped his legs together. I was half expecting someone to break out a deck chair on someone!)
More photos from 2010 SPX (part 1 here)
Photos of creators from this year's SPX (part 1)
A few photos from Intervention Con 2010 this weekend in Bethesda, MD.
I would love to meet folks at Intervention and SPX this weekend. I'll be at Intervention all day Friday and later on Saturday; at SPX early on Saturday and all day Sunday. Feel free to email or tweet me if you're going to be at either one this weekend.
I'll be on a panel at Intervention on Saturday at 5 PM. My first and possibly only panel appearance ever!
The Outside Perspective: Webcomic Review/News Sites
As the webcomics phenomenon has grown it’s natural that a news/review sphere has developed around this art form. This panel will talk about the sites that are out there, the challenges of tracking a “scene” that is as infinite as the Internet itself, and what motivates the people who take up the challenge of talking about webcomics.
Panelists: Xaviar Xerexes, Kara Dennison, Mike Rhodes
I'll also be doing some interviews but mostly looking at comics and catching up with as many people as possible.
Beyond catching up on The Walking Dead series, I got a few more books in the mail I thought I'd mention. First I got a review copy of a comic adaptation of The Little Prince by Joann Sfar, which is the classic tale by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (due for release October 18th). It's not exactly the imagery I had in my head, but it's whimsical and expressive work. I'm about halfway through my read. Once I finish the whole book I'll be sure to put it on the pile of books to review (working my way through that!)
A bit more odd I guess (interesting in a different way) is I, Superhero, which is a book by Mike McMullen, published by Citadel Press. It looks fantastically amateurish — the cover is a picture of McMullen stuffed into a white long-john suit with a word bubble of "We wear tights so you won't have to" — it is just… odd. The subtitle is "My journey into the world of real-life superheroes, spandex, and sex (okay no sex, that was just to get your attention)." I decided to flip through it convinced it would be rubbish but now I'm not so sure. The chapter with the "real life superhero" — "Geist" was a bit endearing. I can't say McMullen in interviewing him for the book really painted a full picture of him but for the most part he presented him sympathetically. Not entirely though — McMullen throws in snark at Geist's expense from time to time. Really McMullen seems to have some issues with his own love of superheroes and geek-fu, his sarcasm seems to unintentionally sneak up on himself in his writing sometimes. I'm much less interested so far in the chapters that focus on McMullen's own purported desire to become a real life superhero himself. Right now though is another chapter about someone else – the "real life superhero" known as Master Legend. I'm going to see if I stick with the whole book before mentally committing to giving it a review.
Scott Kurtz posted a short bit about The Trenches, a new webcomic coming that's a collaboration between him and Mike "Gabe" Krahulik [UPDATE] AND Jerry Holkins.
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