Comix Talk

Hi all,

I'm Oni. I'll be guest blogging this week. I founded the Webcomic / Indie Creator-Centric convention Intervention. You should register now. I draw Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos. I post Art Tutorials and other fun things over at Onezumiverse. 

My favorite color is all of them. My favorite music is metal. My favorite food is anything inside the Magic Kingdom. My favorite movie is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. People keep thinking I'm a dude because of my name so I have provided photographic evidence to the contrary.

Nice to meet you. If there are any tutorials or business questions that you have questions about, ask away. I'm your man…errr…

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So, I'm rather out of my element as a webcomics blogger. I really do neither anymore, so I'm really at a loss for what to write about that doesn't come off as just me venting about how different webcomics are today than in the "good ol' days." I say, why fight it?

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Sorry to drop in on a guest bloggin' week, but thought I'd point out that the 2010 Ignatz nominees are out — here's the nominees in the online comics category:

• Callahan Online by John Callahan
• I Think You’re Sauceome by Sarah Becan
• The Lesttrygonians by Stephen Gilpin
• Reliable Comics by David King
• Troop 142 by Mike Dawson

Also two other deadlines for submitting work for consideration are coming up this fall:

• The 2010 Isotope Awards for Excellence in Mini-Comics is accepting nominations through October 1st.
• The editors of the Best American Comics anthology are accepting submissions for material published within the eligibility dates (September 1, 2009, through August 31, 2010, for the next edition) until September 7th.

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I just read my bio that was written about me a few days ago on this site and see that I'm a lot more impressive than in real life! Contrary to what was written here, I did not build puppets for a "They Might Be Giants" video (that was Melonpool" anymore, it's still a very big part of my life. I'm currently working on a feature-length film version that will hopefully live up to all the hype — and I've been designing puppets for such companies as Nike (the Kobe and Lebron MVPuppets commercials) and Intel (I designed the head of the robot in the Superbowl commercial). I also drew a little comic called "CryptoZooey" that may or may not have a second issue in the next few months — still working on that one.

So, all in all, I've been pretty busy — if not in the world of webcomics. I'm so far out of the loop, I've been scrambling for something to write about here — but that obvioulsy has never stopped me before!

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Hi, I'm Sam Costello. I'm the creator and writer of Split Lip, a horror webcomic in the vein of the Twilight Zone, which features work by artists from all over the world.

In thinking about what to write for the guest blog posts that Xaviar asked me to write, I realized that I'd been asking myself a lot of questions about webcomics recently (especially questions about Split Lip, many of which were prompted by my recent series of columns about making it at iFanboy). I had thoughts about the questions, but not enough answers. I don't know if anyone does, but I'm guessing the discussion we'll have about these questions will be useful to many of us – creators and readers alike. I'm looking forward to talking with you all this week.

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Rachel Dukes of publisher, Poseur Ink, writes:

Rachel Dukes from Poseur Ink here… We've run into a family emergency and need to liquidate our stock of books in order to make room for a family member to move in with us. (And to pay off debts in case further emergencies arise.) If you wouldn't mind, we would be forever grateful if you could make a small blog post and let your readers know that the books are currently 50% off ($5 and $11, respectfully). There's still about 300 copies of each book left, so we have a ways to go; but we need to get these out of our apartment asap.

There are more details at her blog here.

ComixTalk reviewed Side B here – it's a nice book with creators including Jeffrey Brown, Jim Mahfood, Box Brown, Lucy Knisley, Todd Webb, Joe Decie, and Mitch Clem.

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Let me repeat my thanks to all of the guest bloggers for posting so many great posts in my absence.  Thanks to last week's bloggers: Alexander Danner, Brian Moore, John Baird and Max Vaehling.  My biggest regret is that I didn't give them all their own week (if you weren't able to check out the last week flip through the archives for a ton of advice on writing, review and links to great comics).  And one more thanks to the week one bloggers: Ben McCormick, and Amanda & Daniel Potter.

For this week we've got a great group of comic creators and instigators.  They'll all be introducing themselves but here's a brief summary:

Steve Troop is the creator of the comedy sci-fi comic Melonpool and the comic CryptoZooey.  He's been making comics for over 10 years now.  He's also made some excellent puppets and they have appeared in several places including a They Might Be Giants video the Kobe and Lebron MVPuppets commercials.

Sam Costello is the prolific writer and creator behind Split Lip the horror webcomic series.

Harknell and Onezumi are a force to be reckoned with!  Onezumi is a webcomic creator and Harknell is a website coding ninja.  Both are very cool folks and longtime supporters of this site as well as their own webcomic community sites.  We're lucky to have a bit of their time as they are gearing up for the first edition of the convention they've created: Intervention which is coming very soon in September.

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