Our third annual virtual round table on the year in webcomics features comments from Gary Tyrrell, Dirk Deppey, Tom Spurgeon, Heidi MacDonald, Brigid Alverson, Derik A Badman, Reinder Dijkhuis, and JT Shea and Scott Gallatin.
Back in February of this year, we hosted the results of a ComixTalk community interview with the members of the indepedent creators collective, Blank Label Comics. Given that this is an end-of-the-year kind of issue for ComixTalk, I thought it would be great to do another interview with the members of BLC so we could book-end the year between them.
Moreover, although there has been a good deal of press on Halfpixel, the new collective formed by Scott Kurtz and former BLC members Brad Guigar, Dave Kellett and Kris Straub, there is still plenty to catch up on with the six current members of BLC: Howard Tayler, David Willis, Paul Southworth, Paul Taylor, Steve Troop and Greg Dean. Please post your questions here — I’ll collect them on December 21st and send them out for answers with an eye to publishing the full story here in January 2008.
Just a heads up that I won’t be posting all next week as I’ll be off in India. Be sure to check out the reader blog posts and the forums for news and discussion.
For the last five years Neal Von Flue has taught comic illustration to kids. Maybe you can too!
In this feature, he writes about the importance of teaching comics to kids — how it's in our best interest to get young people aware and interested in comics as a medium while they have a passing interest in it as a genre.
New webcomic from Shaenon K. Garrity! I have no details to add to this excerpt from an interview with Shaenon Garrity and her husband Andrew Farago:
I’m writing a couple of weekly webcomics, Smithson.com and Li’l Mell, and rerunning my daily strip, Narbonic, with commentary. The fifth print volume of Narbonic will be available very soon, and may even be available by the time you read this interview. Oh, and I’ll be launching a new daily webcomic at the end of the month. I’m drawing the first strips now, so I’m pretty busy. If you want to check out my various projects, I’ve got a lot of links at my website, www.shaenon.com. (That’s right, none of the other Shaenons jumped in and grabbed that sweet URL.)
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In this episode, Dr. Haus takes a look at the webcomic The Prime of Ambition. Watch as he tries to help an androgynous black elf and white elf couple come together to realize that they both want the same things. Will Dr. Haus succeed in bringing the two sides together, or will this be as futile as trying to solve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis? Read on and find out.
This is Dr. Haus’ second review for ComixTalk; last month he reviewed the webcomic Slackerz.
In years past (2004, 2005) we undertook the monumental chore of picking out the biggest headlines of the year. This year, I took another swing at it. So without further adu, here’s the biggest webcomic headlines of 2007.
If I missed a story you think was key to this year, please post it in the comments to this article.
"A Road Less Traveled" is a series of articles by Tim Broderick detailing the path to publication of his graphic novel, "Cash & Carry" (based on his webcomic Odd Jobs, featured at Moderntales and Timbroderick.net). In this month’s article, he discusses crafting the synopis for a graphic novel.
In previous installments, Tim reviewed how he signed with a traditional publisher for his graphic novel and how he constructed his ultimately successful query letter.
Whereas writing a query letter is a creative challenge, writing a synopsis of your story is an exercise in patience.
In my first column, I took a look at the various previous attempts to define what exactly is a comic. The fact that so many people have struggled to define comics demonstrates that we have yet to do so successfully. Well, if everyone else is trying, why not me?
In order to answer the question “Is this a comic?†we need to apply four criteria: Intent of Creator; Audience Experience; Closure & Synthesis; and Use of Visual Language. Only if a work meets all four of these criteria can it be considered a comic.
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