Comix Talk

REVIEWS

• El Santo just doesn't like the gamer webcomic VG Cats.
• Ross Payton on Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield’s Freakangels. (h/t Journalista!)
• The Beat has a snapshot of the new line-up of comics on Zuda this month.  Eddie Sharam and James Woodhead’s ROAD was the winner of Zuda's monthly contest for February.

INTERVIEWS

• ComicMix interviews the creators of Little Gamers. (h/t to FLEEN)
• Jonathan Callan presents the second installment of his interview with Starslip Crisis cartoonist Kristofer Straub. (h/t Journalista!)
• Brigid Alverson speaks with Luz: Girl of the Knowing creator Claudia Dávila. (h/t Journalista!)
• Scienteers talk to Tom Brazelton of Theater Hopper.

THEORY

• Neil Cohn busts some visual language knowledge on you.

BUSINESS

• Neil Gaiman writes about why booksellers should not fear the free.
• Larry Lessig notes that Nine Inch Nails' latest album has been released under a Creative Commons license.  I think in the digital world it's probably wise to always keep up with how other forms of expression are adapting to the web.  Comics in some ways has been far ahead but it doesn't mean there's not learnin' to be had from music and movies and whatnot.

MILESTONES

• Congrats to Chris Crosby for nine years of his webcomic Superosity.
• Tom Spurgeon recaps his top 25 comic stories in the news from 2007.

NOT WEBCOMICS

• Derik Badman examines The Mighty Golem's Swing, a comic I recently read and thought was very well done.

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BIG THOUGHTS

From Journalista!  this link to Katherine Farmar‘s post on the slippery definitions of “art comics” and “mainstream.”

Pam Bliss lays down the laws of the superhero genre.

BEAT THE PRESS

Another comic magazine debuts – an interview with Comics Now publisher Brian Deemer.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

From Journalista! this link to Alan Gardner’s interview with the Bad Cartoonist, a blogger devoted to mocking newspaper editorial cartoonists.

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This animated short of Pilli Adventure is thriller-iffic! (h/t FLEEN)

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ELO FAN BOY CONFESSES HIS CRIME: Comic Book Resources has an interview with Kris Straub (Starslip Crisis).

CRAZY CAT LADY EATS PAINT:  Comixology has a review of Dorothy Gambrell’s Cat and Girl.

SELLING YOUR SOUL: Tim Broderick has some thoughts on the different types of publishers to whom you could take a comic project.

YOU SUCK!: The Guardian has an article on dealing with trolls and message boards.

NO REALLY, YOU SUCK!: Editorial cartoonists get to live teh drama too: The Bad Cartoonist blog.

I HAVE NEVER USED HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE: Editor & Publisher reports that Nick Gurewitch’s PBF will definitely go to a monthly schedule.

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Matt Shepherd, writer for the long-running (and criminally not as popular as it should be) webcomic, Man Man also wrote a great zombie comic called Dead Eyes Open. (which Matt describes as as “the West Wing meets Dawn of the Dead”) that , came out in trade paperback this week.

Matt’s also put both Chapter One (4.7 MB) and Chapter Two (4.6 MB) — the first third of the book — online as free PDFs.

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Anne Thalheimer over at FLEEN notes how cultural critic Amanda Marcotte wrote a post titled “Musing on autonomy” at the blog Pandagon about a recent comic from Randall Munroe’s < Continue Reading →

I saw the ad the webcomic Blip put up here at ComixTalk and checked it out and enjoyed it.  The writing — especially the dialogue — is quite good and I thought the characters felt like friends after awhile. And it’s genuinely funny in a lot places.  Plot-wise it veers into the supernatural in a way that makes absolutely no sense to me at all right now but given how the title of the comic is explained I guess that plot is fundamental to the creator’s vision of the strip.  Still this works purely on the level of friends doing stuff in the city too.

And I really like the art  too.  I feel like I should write a full review of this but in case I don’t this’ll have to do…

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COMIXTALK

New interviews — one with manga publisher Seven Seas and one with T Campbell.

Tom Spurgeon is collecting information on various comic "scenes" across the North American continent and he’s looking for help.

AWARDS

The Glyph Comic Award nominees are out.

REVIEWS

A comprehensive overview of Steve Purcell’s long-running (but infrequently updated) Sam & Max comics.  Purcell won last year’s Eisner for Best Digital Comic.

Comics Worth Reading links to Ten Doctors, a Who fan comic starring all of the Doctor Whos.

DEAD TREES

Dark Horse announced more print collections of webcomics including Wondermark and Achewood.

I HATE MONDAYS

Two ways to pierce the veil of Garfield: Garfield Without Garfield and Arbuckle.

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