Erik Melander's blog
Flight Vol. 3 Previews
Submitted by Erik Melander on May 10, 2006 - 08:04
Comic Book Resources has an interview and a bunch of preview material from the upcoming Flight Vol. 3, which will be published by Ballantine Books in June.
Netcomics.com Fall Lineup
Submitted by Erik Melander on May 10, 2006 - 04:38
Netcomics.com, the english language branch of Korean online comic publisher ecomixmedia, has announced its fall lineup.
On hiatus
Submitted by Erik Melander on April 30, 2006 - 08:46
I am afraid that vir Bonus is going on a short hiatus (beginning last week). No new comic for the next week either.
New update available
Submitted by Erik Melander on April 16, 2006 - 08:37
A new update is available. link
Little Dee vol. 1
Submitted by Erik Melander on April 13, 2006 - 07:55
Fleen points out that Chris Baldwin has released the first print collection of his comic Little Dee, which can be found online at littledee.net. The collection weighs in at 142 pages, three strips a page, with a price of $12.
Supernatural Law Nominated for Book Awards
Submitted by Erik Melander on April 12, 2006 - 09:52
Supernatural Law, which can be found online at WCN, is nominated for several book awards according to The Beat.Batton Lash's Tales of Supernatural Law, published by Exhibit A Press, is a finalist in the graphic novel category for two major book awards: Publishers Marketing Association's Benjamin Franklin Awards and ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Awards (BOYA). In addition, the book has been nominated to be included in a major American Library Association recommended reading list.
Views and News on Webcomics
Submitted by Erik Melander on April 10, 2006 - 07:41
Maybe some of these have already been noted, but in that case here they come again.
Sequential Tart has an interview with Girlamatic editor Lisa Jonté.
The Pulse has an interview with last years Eisner Digital comic award winner Brian Fies about his, now print, comic Mom's Cancer. The Pulse also throws Comixpedia editor Al Schroeder's Mindmistress some love in the "Intro to Webcomics" feature.
vir Bonus 2nd year Anniversary
Submitted by Erik Melander on April 7, 2006 - 10:27
Well so much for writing regularly in the blog. I have three or four entries that are lying around unfinished, ideas not quite thought through yet.
This post in itself is almost a week late. The occasion, the second year anniversary of my webcomic, vir Bonus. It is a bitter sweet moment. While I am proud that I have kept at it for so long, I am also dissatisfied with the progress. Looking through the pages I've produced there are both that I am impressed by, and significantly more that are embarrassing. The story, which was intended as a rather short introductory story, has muted and twisted from the original idea and keep doing so. In many ways it is a better story than the original, but it is also longer and there are other stories I am aching to do. Both in the world of vir Bonus, but also others completely. I suppose that is the curse of an overactive imagination, to little time or perhaps in my case the unwillingness to devote more.
