Author: Xaviar Xerexes

Well all’s quiet on the tryptophan front this morning… a big thanks to David LaMason, the creator of the webcomic Unbearable Bears, for creating on super-short notice our Thanksgiving cover art up top… if you’re ever trying to track me down, be sure to hit up the "where am I?" section at my other website xaviarxerexes.com… take a look at the comics event calendar for upcoming stuff to do — don’t forget you can subscribe to it; submit events to me (tweet to xerexes) or even volunteer to co-maintain it.

INTERVIEW
The Career Cookbook has an interview with Chris Hastings, the mastermind behind the webcomic Dr. McNinja.

MILESTONE
Happy Birthday Mr. Jonathan Rosenberg!  Goats is one of the first webcomics I remember reading.

COLLECTIVE
Seth Kushner filmed a documentary on the ACT-I-VATE comics collective that you can watch at Newsarama.

LEGAL BEAGLE
I haven’t read the underlying case but TechDirt’s writeup of a lawsuit over a fictionalized portrayal of someone might be a red flag for comics creators.  (This sounds different than the (in)famous Tony Twist lawsuit against Todd McFarlane.  Twist’s win there was based on McFarlane profiting from using the "famous" Twist in the comic.)

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Man, in years ComixTalk is like a tween now… OMG!

2008
We had an interview with Evan Nichols of the webcomic Dr. Eldritch.  Plus, wow! Jon Morris’ comic,  Star Wars Versus The Batman.  And Bomb Shelter’s Webcomic Idol contest was down to the final three.  (Doesn’t look like Webcomic Idol is happening this year…)

2007
Von Allan’s The Road To God Knows began its serialization over at Girlamatic.

2006
Scott McCloud’s Making Comics was making the rounds; Neil Babra drew an awesome turkey; and another installment in the Most Read Webcomics Measurement Project.

2005
Nada!!!

2004
A great thread on how much to spend on making a webcomic — how times have changed (or not) since then!

2003
Dave Wright’s Todd and Penguin hits it’s third anniversary milestone; an interview with Brad Hawkins and a review of his webcomic Monkey Law; and Dylan Meconis wrote a column on webcomic creator burnout.

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Kean Soo has a cool retrospective post on what the creators involved with the first volume of the Flight comics anthology have done since it’s release and where they are now.  Interestingly, only three still have regularly updated webcomics: Erika Moen, DAR!; Dylan Meconis, Family Man; and Derek Kirk Kim, TUNE.

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This Lucy Knisley comic "Downloading Optimism (Pessimism Virus Detected)" is a great bit of commentary on the transition between an all paper world to the multimedia, digital world Lucy is already a native in.  There are generational issues as well as the massive discomfort anyone feels when they are in effect "losing their job" (what else to call the dying models of the daily big city and alternative weekly newpapers and the diminishing number of cartoonists who can make a living from their checks?).  You have to hope that cartoonists recognize that losing a "job" (i.e. a business model) is not the same as losing your talent and that as old opportunities go away there are new opportunities to create and exploit.

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I tweeted this, but forgot to blog it:  Ryan Sohmers announced last week, the Rayne Summers Webcomic Scholarship at The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.  It’s being set up by the creators of Least I Could Do and will pay the tuition for a budding webcomic artist to attend CCS.

Very generous and a great idea as well.  Kudos to Sohmers and his partners at Blind Ferret.

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Check out the new webcomic from Wes Molebash, Max vs Max.  Style-wise it appears to be a successor to his last webcomic, You’ll Have That (for a recap of past work, check out this interview from earlier this year with Wes).

Strewth! from Josh Way certainly has a funny first comic (although just barely injected enough needed life into the now completely shark-jumped, shattered the fourth-wall trope of a first comic being about the fact that it is the first comic of the webcomic).  Nice art, decent pacing — impossible to judge after one comic but I for one, will be back to check more out.

Not sure I’m hyping this or not – AMC made a remake of the classic teevee series The Prisoner and also made a comic to accompany it.  I am probably going to read it but messing with such a classic program makes me a bit nervous…

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