Comix Talk

It’s snapshot of the ComixTalk archives time again. Here’s a look back at what we were writing about on January 24th in years past.

2007:

• krysilis was seeking an artist for a comics project. Did s/he find one? Only the Intertubes know…
• Crying Macho Man plugged his latest comic "FOXY".
• DAJB plugged the latest developments in his comic Shades.
• Oren launched a new webcomic (still going!) called Mini Cactuses Starring Ned the Chainsaw Guy.

2006:

• Jason Salsbury was looking for a new artist for his webcomic Pet Professional. This wasn’t the first or the last artist on the comic. Eventually Salsbury turned to Chad Diez to do the art on the comic – but Diez eventually dropped out in early 2007 (for the scoop on that check out the DS interview with Diez here). It looks like Pet Professional is on hiatus now.
• Julia Wertz launched her journal webcomic The Fart Party.
• Dave Wright, and several webcomic creators banded together to create The Biggest Loser website which chronicled their attempt to lose weight and raise some money for UNICEF in the process. It looks like this project is dead, dead, dead as the website URL has expired.

2005

• Ping Teo looked at the "essence of" the webcomic GPF.
• Eric Burns reviewed the webcomic Goats.
• Al Schroeder interviewed Kris Straub during his Checkerboard Nightmare days.

2004

• absolutely nothing!

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TechDirt notes that Boom Studios is releasing North Wind on the web and in paper at the same time. Comics, particularly webcomics, experiments with new economic models probably don’t get as much credit as they do so it’s nice to see a broader tech site take notice of something like this. Continue Reading →

I saw the link from Overcompensating and read the archives today. Anders Loves Maria is great fun with some real emotional depth to it.

UPDATE: Two thumbs up from the Fleensters: Anne and Gary. 

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COMIXTALK

• The January issue rolls along with interviews with WCCA Chairman Frank "Damonk" Cormier; the creators of Blank Label Comics; creator and world traveler Ryan Estrada. We also have a review of Rob Hanes Adventures; plus Michael Payne’s feature on vanished webcomics; Tim Broderick’s feature on whether to approach an agent or a publisher first with your graphic novel proposal; Patric Lewandowski’s feature examining how a creator’s intent relates to what is a comic; and Derik Badman’s look at Murder Dreams, a short comic from 1954 drawn by B. Krigstein.
• Don’t forget to check out our advertisers: The Learn to Draw course and the webcomic The Vanguard.
• Next month, February 2008, is ComixTalk’s fifth anniversary! [Insert slightly vulgar exclamation here]

News and Blues

• WCCA Nominations due this Wednesday, January 23rd.
• Kris Straub has changed the URL for his webcomic Starslip Crisis to starslip.com – make sure to change your bookmarks!
• Sequential Tart has an interview with Bill Barnes of Unshelved.

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I have to admit I really miss A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage Is Irreversible one of the more inventive webcomics of the decade. The artist David Hellman, really brought a lot to the artwork, so much so that the comic is inconceivable without his contributions. Hellman has a sporadically updated personal site at which I discovered this great presentation he gave on comics last summer, using many ALILBTDII comics to illustrate his thinking. Absolutely worth checking out, especially if you were a big fan of ALILETDII

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Kris Straub’s epic sci-fi comic Starslip Crisis is now at starslip.com.

Adjust your bookmarks! 

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Everyone should check out Uncle Ghastly’s brand new webcomic Blog Is Hell.   It’s like Dinosaur Comics filtered through,… well Uncle Ghastly, of course. Continue Reading →