Apparently so this August. Rick Marshall has a really good interview with creator Jeph Jacques over at ComicMix today.
Delve back into our archives and you can read Wednesday White’s 2005 review of the comic, and Yolanda Janiga’s interview with Jacques.
Plus see my recent "interview" with Martin York, the "original" Martin on Questionable Content.
I wasn’t going to post again about the New Yorker cover that got the media so worked up this week but this cartoon/column by Tom Tomorrow is too funny not to link.
A couple of Platinum-related odds n’ ends today:
DJ Coffman gets a CEASE AND DESIST letter from Platinum regarding the herobynight.net and ,org URLs that apparently Coffman personally owns. Lots more in Coffman’s post on his post-Platinum thoughts on Platinum including this key bit:
So yeah, that boggles my mind. 24k? Brian just passes me off as any creator who would complain to a publisher about not enough promotion. But the guy’s problem is, and he admitted this to me is, he just doesn’t KNOW comics. For all intents and purposes, and not a surprise to many, Platinum isn’t in the comic BOOK business.
I’ve got a large number of "how-to" type books to review and so I’m going to try and make the theme of August about tutorials and tips. I don’t have a cover artist lined up for August, however and in the spirit of doing something different I’m going to open it up to submissions. Here’s the plan — if you’re interested in doing the cover for ComixTalk for August (that’s the 1000 x 400 image that sits at the top of the site) submit a quick sketch (and any explanatory notes) of your idea by the end of July 21st. I’ll pick one idea for the artist to do a final version for the site. Submit your sketches to xerexes AT gmail DOT com and include any links to work you’ve done online.
There’s no pay for cover art, however, you retain the copyright (you do have to give me a non-exclusive license to display it online), get your name and linkage under the cover for the month and if you’re interested we’ll run a free left-hand column ad for you.
For the record Johnny Jonesy does not actually come by my house for reals but that’s probably because his Mom won’t let ‘em borrow the station wagon.
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Comic-Con 2008 kicks off in San Diego soon — July 24-27 — and the web/indy/whatever–comic presence seems to grow bigger each year. If you’re going you’re already set b/c this thing, as a practical matter, sold out long ago (I think you can still get a hotel room in the next state over…).
Some awesome panels this year include:
I really don’t know what this one means.
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JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Boom Studios is putting up more of its comics as webcomics on its site.
BUSINESS
Neil Gaiman has a writeup of the positive results of his recent free experiment putting his novel American Gods (quite good btw!) online for awhile — sales of his books at independent bookseller were up considerably. Techdirt also has a post on the wider trend of publishers trying out the free ebooks strategy. Some of this is validation for the free model of webcomics but there are also wrinkles to be learned from the experiments of text publishers. In part, I’m interested myself in seeing how publishers, as opposed to creators navigate free and for-sale.
POLITICS
I know there’s some hubbub about a swing and a miss cover to the New Yorker (speaking of which Reuben Bolling did a much better take on that satirical idea); forget that, the real story is the New Yorker’s interview with Chris Onstad of Achewood.
TOOLS
You can read comics on the iphone. In Japan, software company Celsys is pushing the iphone for reading manga.
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