Comix Talk

COMIXTALK

• New feature articles up including interviews with Stephen Notley and Brad Hawkins as well as a new column on self-imposed "constraints" in the creative process from Derik Badman.
• I still need names and addresses from two of the Karas winners – if you’re not Wes, JT; Joe; Lou; Charles; Elizabeth; Dave; or Frank email me your contact information! Thanks.

INTERVIEWS

• New York Magazine has a good interview with Nick Gurewitch of Perry Bible Fellowship.
• Wizard talks to Cameron Stewart, the creator of the new webcomic Sin Titulo.
• Jennifer Contino talks to the creators of The Mighty Motor Sapiens, a webcomic that runs on the NASCAR website.
• The FLOG! has some video excerpts from Gary Groth’s interview with Charles Schulz biographer David Michaelis. (h/t Journalista!)
• Blog@Newsarama has an interview with Wesley Green, who runs Ambrosia Publishing which hosts serialized webcomics.

BUSINESS

• Richard Pachter has an article about the history of work-for-hire in the comic book industry. (h/t Journalista!)
• Paul Gravett has an article about graphic novels in bookstores. (h/t Journalista!)

AROUND TEH WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• I predict all webcomics will be required to feature a Cory Doctorow costumed blogger reference next year in comics during Halloween. This year, Jack of All Blades picked up on the joke that started with xkcd.
• Anyone else reading the comic adaptation of 1984? Besides not being able to figure out who the creator is from the site (anyone know?) I also noticed that it was licensed under the Free Art license from artlibre.org. It seems to be a bit like Creative Commons although I didn’t read the license carefully enough to be completely sure.
• Peter Bagge has a comic on partying with Dick Cheney. No shotguns were involved.
• Dirk Deppey picks up on the Wikipedia thread on deleting the new ComixTalk entry over there (and no I’ve had nothing to do with any of it). In honor of all-things-wiki here’s a link to "the 8 most needlessly detailed Wikipedia entries".

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I’ve got information for JT; Joe; Lou; Charles; Elizabeth; Dave; and Frank.  If you’re one of the three winners I don’t have contact information for please send me an email with name and physical address so we can mail the DVDs out.  Thanks. Continue Reading →

I just found that someone had started an entry for ComixTalk on Wikipedia from a google search alert email (I get a bunch of those everyday – its one way I try to track news).

And of course it’s up for deletion. I think it’s funny – the new article up for deletion is a lot less informative then the one that was deleted a couple years ago but the deletion discussion this time is almost… balanced. Sure Dragonfiend still has a thing for deleting it (I think s/he led the charge on deleting the original Comixpedia entry actually) but others make better arguments for notability than I could be bothered to work up.

If you’re interested check out the deletion discussion here and the new article here (the new article, if it stays, will need a heck of a lot of work).

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The end of the year is coming and I’m working on getting in place articles for the site for December. One thing we’ve done for a few years running now that I’m trying to set up again is a roundtable discussion of the year that was. Participants in past roundtables have been mainly bloggers and journalists writing about (web)comics although there’s no hard and fast rules about it. If anyone has any suggestions on commentators to invite to participate (I’m always interested in adding new voices to the mix for these roundtable articles) post a comment here.

Another thing we’ve done annually is our annual People Of Webcomics article listing the top 25 contributors to webcomics during the past year. We’ll have another edition of that next month. I’m looking for as broad as input as possible and webcomics is a tremendously wide field to cover. If you have ideas about who has contributed significantly to webcomics in 2007 post a comment here with the name and some discussion of what merits their recognition. The point of the list is not really to be an "award" but a way to talk about the exciting developments of the last year and put a spotlight on the people involved with them. Check out past editions of the list to see who we’ve included previously (and why): 2006; 2005; and 2004.

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It’s the last day of our Karas the Revelation DVD contest and I still have 5 DVDs to give away. So a slight modification of the rules for this last mega-round. The first FIVE registered and logged-in members of ComixTalk to post a comment to this thread that includes "Viva La Revolution!" gets a free copy of the DVD.

These five ComixTalk members have already won (you can only win once!): Shishio; CyberLord; Litazia; Twentyfour; and Lifesabluff. All winners need to send me their name and address for mailing purposes (you can use my contact form by clicking on "xerexes" here on the site).

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AWARDS

• The Glyph Awards are accepting nominations for the 2008 edition.

INTERVIEWS

• The most recent Culture Pulp covers Mike Russel’s interview with Jerry Seinfeld for his new Bee Movie.
• Wizard interviews Pontus Madsen of Little Gamers.
• The Comics Reporter interviews Marjane_Satrapi, creator of Persepolis.

REVIEWS

• The Webcomics Overlook does a quick round-up of webcomics parodying the very existence of webcomics! Or maybe, let’s just say three webcomics making bad jokes on purpose plus Dave McGuire’s very funny Webcomics Are Awesome (which I really wish he’d update again).
• The Comics Reporter reviews Downbeat.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

• Awkward Zombie points out that one size really shouldn’t fit all in World of Warcraft.
• I would totally read/watch Scooby Doo if it was done by Joe Dunn.

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There are four webcomics left in BSC’s Webcomic Idol contest – voting goes on all week.

• Grumps
• Lucid TV
• Simulated Comic Product
• Templar, Arizona

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