Going Bananas for Politics: An interview with Monkey Law’s Brad Hawkins
Brad Hawkin, the creator of Monkey Law, talks to Leah Fitzgerald about his art and politics, and the business of making monkeys homeless. Continue Reading
Interviews
An Interview With The Slug’s JR Conlin by Melanie Rada
What more can really be said about JR Conlin’s The All New Adventures of The Slug?
Well, judging from this remarkable in-depth interview, perhaps it’s best to just let JR Conlin tell you himself. His answers are deep, insightful, and will leave you a changed, changed reader.
Read on, and be forever enlightened… Continue Reading
Leah Fitzgerald Interviews Bob The Angry Flower’s Steven Notley
Stephen Notley planted his first comic seeds the mid 90s while drawing weekly strips for the University of Alberta’s Gateway (a student newspaper that managed to churn out not only Notley’s work, but also Cigarro & Cerveja, Deathworld, and the now-defunct but fondly-remembered Space Moose all in the same span of time). It did not take him or his comic idea about a disgruntled sentient weed – umm, sorry – flower to take root and bloom brightly in the still-Edenic Garden of Webcomics. Now already releasing his fourth book, the creator of Bob The Angry Flower can be seen on the comic convention circuit sporting large yellow petals on his head and pollinating truths about life, the universe, and political everythings as only an angry, petal-bedecked person could. Continue Reading
An Interview with Steven Withrow by Alexander Danner
Steven Withrow is the author of Toon Art: The Graphic Art of Digital Cartooning, published in July through Watston Guptil Publications. Toon Art presents a comprehensive introduction to digital comics and animation, including a brief history of cartooning, a primer on digital art and production methods, and a broad survey of top talent working in the medium today. Toon Art has been favorably reviewed in both Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal, the latter calling it "a definitive popular guide to…digital art."
Steven's webcomics series, Crackles of Speech and Critical Thinking, have appeared on Komikwerks.com and NextComics.com, with various artists. "Manuwahi," a short story he scripted for Roberto Corona, was recently chosen by Dark Horse Comics for their online Strip Search contest. When not earning his living as a writer and editor, Steven is working on several comics and animation projects for print and the Web. He has also published poetry, short fiction, and plays, and written lyrics and libretto for a musical composition. In addition, Steven expresses an intense interest in children's literature and its crossover with comics. Continue Reading
This Ape Sets The Law: An interview with Jeremy’s Jon Morris
Jon Morris may claim "the things he writes and draws make people sad," but he has had a hand in several well received webcomics. Starting with the Ignatz nominated Jeremy and moving on to current anthology project Open Book, Morris continues to expand the scope of material he brings to his particular style and approach to comics. Continue Reading
Tycho and Gabe Answer the Readers’ Questions
Tycho and Gabe are the creators of Penny Arcade, arguably the most widely read webcomic ever. Besides practically pioneering the genre of "gaming webcomics" Tycho and Gabe have experimented with every kind of business strategy devised for webcomics including advertising, donations, merchandise, and in the good old Dot-com boom days, getting paid by video game review websites to run Penny Arcade webcomics.
Without further hullabaloo, Tycho and Gabe answer your questions: Continue Reading
A Little Butch Never Hurt Nobody: David Wright chats with Lee Adam Herold (pt.2)
Lee Adam Herold has been delighting and horrifying webcomic lovers with Chopping Block for the past three years, and what better time than Halloween to sit down and have a chat with him. Recently, David Wright of Todd and Penguin managed to get Herold to spill his guts about such diverse topics as his new book and plush doll, his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, his religious faith, and his love of goth babes.
Somewhere amidst all that they even discussed the comic.
A Little Butch Never Hurt Nobody: David Wright chats with Lee Adam Herold (pt.1)
Lee Adam Herold has been delighting and horrifying webcomic lovers with Chopping Block for the past three years, and what better time than Halloween to sit down and have a chat with him. Recently, David Wright of Todd and Penguin managed to get Herold to spill his guts about such diverse topics as his new book and plush doll, his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, his religious faith, and his love of goth babes.
Somewhere amidst all that they even discussed the comic.
Accept No Imitations… of Neil B
On his web log site, triggercut.diary-x.com, the work of journal comic designer Neil B. may seem sparse in quantity. The quality of such minutiae, however, has established him as a truthful and thoughtful writer among fans and critics. Born and raised in Pennsylvania by Indian-American parents who emigrated to the States before he was born, his web log could be considered a chronicle of events in the life of a young gay man, as he is such, but more to the point, says Neil, is to extract the “universal in the specific†and appeal to a general audience, both gay and straight. Here he makes a strong case for such in this interview with the Comixpedia: Continue Reading
A Cartoonist Couple Quizzed: Leah Fitzgerald Chats Up Tom Hart and Leela Corman
Tom Hart and Leela Corman are married – and so are their professions. Both are artists behind successful comics, Hart on the web (Hutch Owen) and Corman in print (Subway Series), and the two manage to balance close quarter living and their artistic differences.
Comixpedia: Do you find you are competitive with your significant other? Continue Reading
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