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Return to Camelot: An Interview with Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

September 8, 2008 - 23:04 | Xaviar Xerexes

Daniel "Merlin" Goodbrey is one of the artists I know both myself and Frank "Damonk" Cormier were pretty into when ComixTalk launched in 2003.  So it's a bit surprising to me that we've had a 5 year lapse in interviewing him.  These days Goodbrey has a day job teaching at in the School of Film, Music & Media at the University of Hertfordshire with a focus on Digital Animation.  And far from disappearing these past years, Goodbrey has continued to create memorable work on the web and in print as well as continue to experiment with hypercomics and other experimental notions in comics.  And not unlike the direction of "webcomics" as a whole, Goodbrey has increasingly blurred the lines between web and print in his creation of comics.

Updates On Entries in the Ill-Fated Webcomic Directory Project?

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 24, 2007 - 14:31

I built a "library" of webcomics and creators back in the fall of 2005 which I put into beta before realizing it was too much editorial work to deal with and the same information could be better provided through the community edited webcomic wiki - COMIXPEDIA.

Nevertheless looking back on the assortment of names collected (some from me, some sent in from you) I wonder if anyone has any significant updates on these creators 18 months later. Maybe we should interview some of them?

Withrow and Danner's Character Design for Graphic Novels Now in Stores

Submitted by Alexander Danner on May 16, 2007 - 09:27

Character Design for Graphic Novels not only showcases the best in character design from the world's leading artists on-screen and on the printed page but also provides a hardworking guide to the process behind the evolution and development of character design, the key milestones of the art, the genre busters, and the genre definers.

Full Story Highlights: Collaborative Comics

February 11, 2007 - 14:05 | Tim Tylor and Alexander Danner

The spirit of cooperation is alive and well in webcomics. In that spirit, this month we present five stories that exemplify the value of cooperation: Agnes Quill, Vulture Gulch, Rip & Teri, After Days of Passion and The Archeologists.

This Date In Comixpedia - October 27th

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 27, 2006 - 03:01

A look back at the webcomics website of record:

2005

2004

2003

What's Wrong With Serious Webcomics

October 22, 2006 - 20:48 | Joel Fagin

Writing for the web means understanding the rhythms of publishing on the web. If you're posting a page a day or even a page a week don't write as if you're publishing a monthly comic book.

Joel Fagin takes a look at what gag webcomics are doing right and what serious webcomics can learn from them.

Contributors to Comixpedia

We've had many contributors to Comixpedia over the years - here's a full list through the end of 2005:

John Barber

This Day In Comixpedia

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on May 22, 2006 - 11:08

Looking through Comixpedia's archives: interesting or pointless? You decide!

1 Year Ago:

2 Years Ago:

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