Jamie Robertson

Jamie Robertson is the creator of Clan of the Cats, SEBO, and Melpomene. He is also the Trinoc*coN 2007 Comics Track Director and a member of the North Carolina WebComics Coffee Clatch.

Open Soapbox: Witches and Webcomics

By: Jamie Robertson
Department: Columns
Issue: October 2003 Issue

There was a comic I used to read in the early 1970s called Werewolf by Night. Next to Batman it was one of my favorites. Werewolf by Night, first issued in 1972 by Marvel Comics, told the tragic story of Jack Russell, whom was plagued by a family curse and doomed to transform into a werewolf with each full moon. One of his later love interests was a beautiful blonde named Topaz. The twenty-something Topaz was psychic, could perform spells and could even tame the werewolf with her mind, but I don't recall if she was supposed to be a witch in the comic. "Gifted" was the term I remember, however in 2001 the still twenty-something Topaz was teamed with two other "gifted" Marvel girls, (Jennifer Kale and Satana), in a book called Witches. They were more or less the good guys in that comic.