Svetlana Chmakova
The New York Anime Festival
WHAT: Convention with guests Svetlana Chmakova, Patrick Macias, Abby Denson and Josh Elder. Details here.
WHERE: Jacob Javits Center on 34th Street,New York City, NY.
Signing at The Beguiling (with Svetlana Chmakova) on December 19th from 4-6pm
Submitted by Faith on December 4, 2007 - 11:29
I have a signing, at The Beguiling in Toronto in a couple of weeks (blog post about it). Here's the Thunderdome-esque promo art:
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?
- Blank Label Comics
- Dumbrella
- Girlamatic
- Abby Lark
- Adrian Ramos
- Alexander Danner
- Amber glych Greenlee
- Barb Fischer
- Ben Bittner
- Bernie Hou
- Bill Holbrook
- Bob Roberds
- Boxjam
- Brad Guigar
- Brad Hawkins
- Brandon Carr
- Bryant Paul Johnson
- Cayetano Garza
- Chris Impink
- Chris Onstad
- Chris Shadoian
- Christopher Baldwin
- Chuck Rowles
- Clay Yount
- D.C. Simpson
- D.J. Coffman
- Dale Beran
- Dave Kellett
- Dave Kelly
- David Hellman
- David Rees
- David Willis
- Debbie Ridpath Ohi
- Derek Kirk Kim
- Desmond Seah
- Dorothy Gambrell
- Dylan Meconis
- Emily Horne
- Eric Burns
- Eric Millikin
- Erika Moen
- Fred Gallagher
- Gary Chaloner
- Gene Yang
- George Panella
- Gordon McAlpin
- Greg Carter
- Greg Dean
- Greg Stephens
- Howard Tayler
- Indigo Kelleigh
- James Duncan
- James Kochalka
- Jamie Robertson
- Jason Shiga
- Jeff Darlington
- Jeffrey Rowland
- Jen Wang
- Jenn Manley Lee
- Jennie Breeden
- Jeph Jacques
- Jerry Holkins
- Jerzy Drozd
- Jim Zubkavich
- Joe Dunn
- Joe Zabel
- Joey Comeau
- John Allison
- John Barber
- Jon Morris
- Jon Rosenberg
- Jorge Cham
- Josh Lesnick
- Josh Mirman
- Julia Wertz
- Justine Shaw
- Kazu Kibuishi
- Kris Straub
- Krishna Sadasivam
- Lea Hernandez
- Lee Adam Herold
- Lisa Jonté
- Lou Graziani
- Mark Mekkes
- Meredith Gran
- Michael Jantze
- Michael Lalonde
- Michael McKay-Fleming
- Mike Krahulik
- Mitch Clem
- Mohammad F. Haque
- Monique MacNaughton
- Nate Piekos
- Neil Babra
- Nicholas Gurewitch
- Onezumi Hartstein
- Patrick Farley
- Paul Southworth
- Paul Taylor
- Pete Abrams
- Peter Bagge
- Phil Cho
- Phil Foglio
- Phil Kahn
- R.K. Milholland
- Rich Stevens
- Rob Balder
- Roger Langridge
- Roy Boney
- Ryan Estrada
- Ryan North
- Sam Brown
- Sam Logan
- Sara Turner
- Sarah Ellerton
- Scott Christian Sava
- Scott Kurtz
- Scott McCloud
- Scott Ramsoomair
- Scott Story
- Shaenon K. Garrity
- Shannon Wheeler
- Steve Harrison
- Steve Troop
- Steven L. Cloud
- Svetlana Chmakova
- T Campbell
- Ted Rall
- Thomas K. Dye
- Tim Broderick
- Tim Demeter
- Tom Brazelton
- Tom Truszkowski
- Tracy White
- Tyler Page
- Vera Brosgol
- Wes Molebash
- Zach Miller
- Zach Weiner
- American Elf
- Chopping Block
- Goats
- Wapsi Square
- Yirmumah
Thursday Sicko Journalist News Post
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on June 28, 2007 - 13:07
I'm not a journalist, but I am sick so please wipe your hands after reading today's post...
LEGAL
- Comics Worth Reading has some links to thoughts on digital piracy of comics. Also earlier this month, a bit on downloading manga and what that might mean for North America.
TECHNOLOGY
- There was a brief blip of attention this month for Adobe's new E-reader thingee. Anyone believe the hype?
INTERVIEWS
- Finding Wonderland interviewed Kazu Kibuishi, Gene Yang and Svetlana Chmakova. Great stuff!
- Short piece on Steve Purcell, the creator of the Eisner-nominated Sam & Max webcomic.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
- Sequel to Rumble Girls: Silky Warrior Tansie is now starting up online: Runaway Lightning Ohmry. (h/t CWR)
- It's probably not negative enough to catch on...
but check out Useful Lies, a new Websnarky-like blog mostly (so far) about webcomics. - The webcomic The Paranormals officially launches.
- I'm not sure if I linked to this review of Multiplex or not. Whatever, I like Multiplex more and more as time goes on for its ability to do movie jokes and build characters and storylines well.
- What is "noir-fu"? The Retriever knows!
HOW-TO
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- The Phoenix has a story on Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, Nicholas Gurewitch of The Perry Bible Fellowship, Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl, and Joey Comeau of A Softer World.
- Think I saw this on Journalista! first - Hope Larson's Kiss sketchbook from MoCCA. Clever idea...
News for Friday, April 20, Early Edition (UPDATED)
Submitted by Erik Melander on April 20, 2007 - 10:09
TOOLS
- Tyler Martin has released a new version of ComicPress, a webcomics-friendly theme for WordPress. ComicPress 2.0 BE adds features like the ability to post comic and news posts separately, thumbnails of comics in the archive, support for multiple comic file formats and more.
INTERVIEWS
- The Pulse interviews DJ Coffman about his Hero by Night available now in comic stores.
- T Campbell promises to do a 100 podcasts for Broken Frontier and posts a list of those folks he's going to try and interview.
SYNDICATION
- Pink Raygun wants your comics.
Pink Raygun is now accepting webcomic submissions. We are looking for six female created webcomics to run on a weekly basis.
What exactly is Pink Raygun? Apparently "[...] a webzine for the modern fangirl" accoring to their faq.
EISNER AWARDS
- As noted yesterday by DJ Coffman, the nominations for the Eisner awards is out. Besides the Best Digital Comics category's strong lineup, there are a couple of familiar names sprinkled throughout the categories. Brian Fies, whose Mom's Cancer won the very first Best Digital Comics Eisner Award is nominated this year as well in the categories "Best Reality-based Work" and "Best Graphic Album - Reprint". Gene Yang's American Born Chinese is nominated in the "Best Graphic Album - New" category and Lark Pien's coloring in "Best Coloring". Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon and Hope Larson's Gray Horses are nominated in the "Special Recognition" category.
ADVERTISING
- Reinder Dijkhuis finds that his revenues from Project Wonderful have increased after a recent dip. He also catches the appearance of a PW ad for Ron Paul for President on Clan of the Cats. Obscure third-party candidates for President are technically a new source of advertising for PW, I guess...
MILESTONES
(Xaviar Xerexes contributed to this story)
News & Views for Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on April 11, 2007 - 10:33
First a quick thanks to current advertisers: The Learn to Draw the Human Figure video course; The Lethal Lady website and blog; the webcomic Life on the Fringe and the DrunkDuck Civil War Webcomic Event. Thanks also to all of our PW sponsors including the very current ones: Freaks N Squeeks; Alma Mater; and Cartridge Comics, Lummox. PW ads appear depending on who is the top bidder right now. You should still check out Cartridge Comics though! :)
Also be sure to check out contributor Joel Fagin's webcomic tutorials site and this month's cover artist Michael Lalonde's very funny webcomic Orneryboy.
HEADLINES
- The Todd Goldman/Dave Kelly copying story was well covered this week appearing on several webcomics, blogs, CBR, the art journal Juxtapoz, and even Wikipedia. The extreme similarities of the two works makes it hard to imagine a set of circumstances such that Goldman did not copy from Kelly. The blog FLEEN has been all over this story and really deserves praise for pulling so much of it together. Yesterday FLEEN posted an absolutely spiteful email it received purportedly from Todd Goldman (although FLEEN caveats that it can't confirm this) and also wrote about another similarity between a Goldman work and Stuff Sucks webcomic creator Liz Greenfield. Copying can be a difficult issue - ideas are not protected, only expression - but again, in the specific Goldman/Kelly case it's very hard to see how this was anything other than copying. (Comixpedia interviewed Dave Kelly back in his Living in Greytown days.)
- Johnny Hart dead. Now the question is what happens to B.C. (and possibly The Wizard of Id)? Will it lumber on as a comic strip zombie or will newspapers retire it in favor of fresh material? ANSWER: Kris Straub catches a note at the Creators Syndicate website that say Undead B.C. and Wizard of Id will definitely lumber on. ALSO: Mark Evanier has an interesting post on Hart's career (link from SPPW).
- Mitch Clem taking a break from webcomics? The creator of webcomics such as Nothing Nice to Say; Coffee Achievers and San Antonio Rock City writes about his five years making webcomics.
- Good luck and good thoughts to creator Carla Speed McNeil, who is undergoing surgery later this month to alleviate a moderate-to-severe case of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. (Swiped from Journalista! which caught it from Elayne Riggs.)
JUSTIFY MY THEIR HYPE
- Time's Nerd World Blog praises Rob Balder's and Jamie Noguchi's webcomic Erfworld.
- Maakies creator Tony Millionaire wrote us to tell us that the pilot for the animated Drinky Crow Show is coming to Adult Swim in May. There's a preview video here and you can read others' comments on it here.
- Comics Reporter links to Doom: the webcomic.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- FLEEN notes that Lauren O’Neal turned in a webcomic as a final project for a class at Stanford. Hip and environmentally-friendly!
- Websnark praises Goats. Eric's main point seems to be that even though most of Goats' episodes don't involve actual "action" the comic is nevertheless working well. Goats has never really been about action though, like a good Kevin Smith movie it's about the dialogue.
- CBR notes the 10th anniversary of comics publisher Top Shelf.
- JOURNALISTA! points to the I Read Comics podcast that features a recording of the “Women in Comics†panel from the recent New York Comic-Con, with moderator Heidi MacDonald with Colleen Doran, Amanda Conner, Svetlana Chmakova and Rivkah.
News For Thursday, January 4, 2007 (UPDATED)
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on January 4, 2007 - 11:00
HEADLINES
- First sighting of Diesel Sweeties in the newspaper page.
- United Media is looking for Assistant Editor for Comic. This is the syndicate Ted Rall works for and that signed R Stevens and his webcomic Diesel Sweeties. (link from T Campbell)
- Bring Your Own Awesome is looking for a new artist (doesn't that title sound like something Ryan North should be writing?). The writer is Connor Mooney, a twenty-something student at SUNY Albany (which should give you some sense of what the comic has been about so far).
INTERVIEWS
- Wizard interviews Nick Gurewitch, creator of Perry Bible Fellowship. Gurewitch mentions that the first print collection of PBF is due this September or October.
NOT COMICS
- Ctrl-Alt-Del reminds you to prepare for the coming of the videogaming holiday Wintereenmas.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
- I was not previously aware of the romantic effects of the early britpop years. Thank you Scary Go Round!
- Fabricari's artcam returns!
- New webcomic from the Crying Macho Man: Honey Bear.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Websnark is back with the almost obligatory comment on the end of Narbonic and an interesting spin on Home On The Strange. My immediate reaction to Eric's post on HOTS was that he was reading way too much into it to fit it into a neat little framework he had cooked up but still an interesting essay. In the comments, both creators of HOTS show up at the very end and add a few reactions to the post.
- FLEEN looks at the webcomic Russell's Teapot.
- More star-studded comments on the year that was 2006 at The Beat: part 3 (includes Shaenon Garrity and Svetlana Chmakova), part 2 (includes Dean Haspiel and ) and part 1.
Toronto Library Panel and Signing
A host of cartoonists will descend upon the Toronto Reference Library - meet Svetlana Chmakova, J. Torres, Scott Chantler, Ed Northcot, Ramon Perez and Eric Kim. Details here.
Post-There Goes the New World Neighborhood-Tuesday News
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 10, 2006 - 10:44
Happy (Belated) Canadian Thanksgiving Day! And this weekend was 24 Hour Comics Day - catch up on the haps at the 24 Hour Comics Day website.
PREMIERES
A new Blamination from Kurtz and Straub. Who knew these guys liked video games?
Yesterday, Grounded Angel (previously at Komikwerks) relaunched simultaneously at three webcomics sites: Graphic Smash, WebComicsNation, and DrunkDuck. Grounded Angel is the story of 16-year-old Gloria, who finds out during a really bad day that she’s an angel, the herald to the end of the world.
Dramacon (Vol. 2) by Svetlana Chmakova is available in stores today.
INTERVIEWS
Digital Strips has an interview with Platinum Studios Chairman Scott Rosenberg and Drunk Duck's Dylan Squires.
The Santa Barbara Independent has an interview with Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury.
Scott Kurtz interviews Adam West?
OPINION
Astute political commentary from... Sinfest?
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Bookslut reviews Scott McCloud’s Making Comics.
Drawn! interviews illustrator Bob Staake who has a new book out called This is Not a Pumpkin. Staake who embraced digital art tools early on also was an early presence on the web with his Planet Cartoonist site.
(From Lines and Colors) Line Rider is a Flash interactive that allows you to draw a line that represents the two dimensional topography of a hill. When your line is drawn, you click play and the Line Rider, a small character on a sled with a trailing scarf, will go sailing, bouncing and, if you’re not careful, tumbling down the hill according to forces of imaginary gravity.
