Interviews

From Spork to Undead Romance — Mnemesis’ Sylvan Midgal

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Sylvan Migdal. With a first name like this, he almost had to get involved with fantasy. At SYLVAN MIGDAL'S EXTREMELY INTERESTING WEBCOMICS at www.webcomics.org, Sylvan has been pursuing such webcomics as Spork, Carface, the completed graphic novel A God's Life (slacker deities in a creation they inherited), and the current ongoing Mnemesis, an existential afterlife, and has been active with webcomics since March of 2001. He's a 19-year-old junior at The Cooper Union. He's lived in various Brooklyn apartments (with his pet dust bunnies) for 15 years, and has had his ceiling collapse on three separate occasions.

That last bit is no doubt good training for the thankless and often catastrophic job of being a web cartoonist.

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Scott McCloud Answers the Readers’ Questions

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Depending on who you ask, he’s either the guru behind the webcomics revolution, bringing thousands online with ideas of infinite canvases and micropayments dancing in their heads, or some guy who wrote some books about comics and had nothing to do with those first webcomics pioneers.

Well, either’s true.

Scott McCloud answered some questions put out by you, the Comixpedia community. And boy did he ever answer them. Continue Reading →

Great Webcomic Minds Chat a Lot — A Session on Webcomic Awards

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What happens when you put a half-dozen of webcomics' brightest and most vocal brains in a vegematic set on "inquisinate"?

Well, we put Chris Crosby, Joey Manley, Mark Mekkes, Chris Morrisson, BoxJam, and Scott McCloud in a chat room together with an inquisitive Damonk, to see what would happen. The result was a frothy milkshake of a chat interview that focused on awards for webcomics and their value or worth in the webcomics community.

If you're into grey matter milkshakes, or some cool, refreshing idea-sharing, than read on to see what these pureed brains had to say…

[Prelims]
damonk: Five more minutes, and I'm starting this puppy.
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It’s Nifty! Pete Abrams Answers Comixpedia Readers’ Questions

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Pete Abrams started Sluggy Freelance in 1997 and has been producing the daily strip (Sunday to Saturday) ever since. Along with producing some memorable characters like Bun-bun the knife-welding lop rabbit and Kiki the hyperactive ferret, Sluggy has created some pretty sharp parodies over the years, lampooning movies and pop culture regularly. Sluggy has also attracted a rabid legion of fans known as "sluggites" who run the Sluggy Zone where fans of Sluggy Freelance gather to talk all things Sluggy.

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It’s Willis! A chat with the creator of It’s Walky & Roomies by Yolanda Janiga

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There is no shortage of college-based comic strips these days; Residence Life, CRFH!!!, Avalon, Blue Canary – the list goes on and on.

Four years ago, however, David M. Willis helped thin out school-based comic strips when he ended his three-year run of the popular, well-loved Roomies! – a Web comic about two best friends who discover that college life is nothing like what they imagined. But instead of starting from scratch and giving the Web comic-loving community fresh new characters in a totally different atmosphere, Willis started up a Roomies! sequel called It's Walky!

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The Friendliest Little Webcomic Around: Leah Fitzgerald Interviews Illiad

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Illiad started User Friendly, a webcomic about a small Internet Service Provider and its friendly staff in November, 1997. User Friendly grew to be one of the first truly popular webcomics garnering a large audience and allowing its creator to quit his day job. In fact, Illiad took User Friendly Media, Inc., public on the CDNX in 1999. Today, User Friendly is still one of the most widely-read webcomics.

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An Interview with Bruno’s Chris Baldwin

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Christopher Baldwin has been drawing Bruno since 1996, and Bruno has been one of the most consistently-updated comics online. Baldwin, who just announced he’ll be moving to Washington State and likely taking Bruno with him, was working until recently for a data entry company. He’s decided to take the opportunity to regroup and work on a new project that he’d like to see syndicated.

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The Goods on Goats: Comixpedia Readers’ Questions Answered

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Our third community interview is with Jon Rosenberg, creator of Goats and Patent Pending (available on the Goats website with a subscription to Goats Premium). (We haven’t forgotten about our second interview with Pete Abrams. We’re negotiating with T-Shirt Guy Tom right now for Pete’s answers.)

Jon published the first Goats strip on April 1, 1997 and is still going strong. Along with Phillip Karlsson, Jon has also carved out a niche as the creator of some truly funny website-parodies, including Brains4Zombies and Moistnap. Continue Reading →