Comix Talk

A little late, but Phil Kahn has posted a batch of video interviews he did with webcomic creators at this years Connecticon including:

• Chris Hastings and Kent Archer of Dr. McNinja.
• Chris “Kilika” Mallone of Blue & Blond.
• Shawn Handyside of Staccato.
• Rob Balder & Jami Noguchi of ErfWorld.

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In this otherwise fairly whiny story about the state of the comics pages in the two daily papers in Denver, CO is a bit of news about R Stevens’ Diesel Sweeties buried towards the end:

In the case of "Diesel Sweeties," by Richard Stevens III, he believes he made the right choice. "We actually got complaints about how dumb the comic was, which is very unusual," he notes. "So we canceled it and nothing happened, which lets you know you haven’t damaged the franchise with somebody. If you don’t feel strongly enough to call me, it’s unlikely you’ll change your reading habits over it.

I asked Stevens’ for his reaction to DS getting the ax at the Rocky Mountain News and here’s his response:

I know I can’t take it personally, but it’s too bad they dumped me — when we did a road trip to San Diego this year, the high point for me was stopping at a diner in Colorado and picking up the Rocky Mountain news and seeing my comic for the day. It was the first time I’d gotten to pick it up myself!

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Just saw this on Heidi MacDonald’s blog — the Friends of Lulu group is accepting nominations for board members until September 18th. The full press release is after the break:

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Following a summer of pursuing a new person to take over the webcomic wiki project I’m happy to announce the transfer is done and Comixpedia: the Webcomics Encyclopedia is up and running on its new server at the same URL: comixpedia.org. The new owner is Josh Roberts who already has two great comics sites to his name: Onlinecomics.net and Comicspace.com.

I’m going to repost Josh’s welcome note at Comixpedia here:

Hi everybody! First, let me apologize for the recent downtime. The site’s been moved to a new server and everything seems to be running nicely. Second, let me introduce myself. My name is Josh Roberts and I’ve taken over running Comixpedia.org for Xaviar Xerexes. My agenda here is simple: take Comixpedia.org to the next level. To that end, I plan to 1). supliment the existing database with content from the OnlineComics.net database, 2). promote Comixpedia.org to the OnlineComics.net and ComicSpace communities, and 3). add a lot more sysops to help me out. Any questions, post them to my user talk page or shoot me an email at my first name at this domain. —Josh

I wish Josh the best of luck and encourage anyone who’s interested to get involved over there!

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COMIXTALK

• We’ve got a cool new cover up from Shayna Marchese. Shayna is the creator of the webcomic Voids which you should definitely check out if you’re aren’t already a fan.
• We’re always looking for contributors – if you’re interested in writing a feature on a topic related to webcomics, a review of a webcomic or a short column about your own experiences in webcomics drop me an email at xerexes AT comixpedia DOT com.
• Advertising on our top banner space via Project Wonderful is going cheap these days. Thanks to current-this-moment sponsor, the webcomic Crying Macho Man. We’ve also got spots open on our non-premium ad space (left column) – click here if you’re interested.

REVIEWS

• A nice review of A Softer World at the blog Comics Should Be Good. A Softer World has been around for awhile now but creators Joey Comeau (writer) and Emily Horne (photographer, designer) are still crafting a comic that manages to provoke your all of your emotions (not just the funnybone).

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• FLEEN’s resident academic Anne Thalheimer talks up MoCCA’s new webcomic exhibit. (More details on the exhibit here)
• Stephen DeStefano proposes the unified theory of Bluto J. Brutus to explain the popular Popeye bad guy(s). (link from Dirk Deppey)

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