An Interview with 1/0’s Mason “Tailsteak” Williams

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After three successful years, Mason "Tailsteak" Williams recently ended his metatextual webcomic 1/0 at the 1,000th strip. He currently produces comics and miscellaneous ruminations at his new site, http://tailsteak.tk.

COMIXPEDIA: Okay, a little on your background. What did you draw and write before 1/0?
TAILSTEAK: Not much. A little amateur fiction, but nothing I'd want anyone to read. 1/0 really taught me everything I now know about writing consistent characters and making decent art.

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An Interview with Sexy Losers’ Hard Artist

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Hard Artist of Sexy Losers may make his comics in Japan, but he’s a Canadian. That’s right, he’s from the East Coast, and studied in Waterloo, Ontario for a degree in psychology. Unable to find a job in the field, despite a published thesis, he made his way to Japan, where he puts his comic together.

Comixpedia: How did you end up in Japan?
Hard Artist: I came over on the JET program in 1999. I quit last year, and work in a private school near Tokyo. Continue Reading →

Stop Drawing Bad Manga! by Shaenon K. Garrity

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Here’s the deal. I work for a manga publisher, Viz LLC, purveyors of such titles as Phoenix, Inu-Yasha, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, and Shonen Jump. I’m surrounded by manga and the attendant detritus of Japanese pop culture for eight hours a day, five days a week.

I like it. A lot.

And yet I don’t like most manga-style American comics.

On this side of the Pacific, manga-style seems to mean one of two things:

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The Blue View by Boxjam

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I like wit, perhaps to a fault.

Everyone knows that ninety percent of everything is garbage. So I should have known, when I offered It's not Country. It's Johnny Cash, as a way of saving this great man's canon, that my friend would call me on it. I did it, of course, because Country has come to be sluggish bland pop with a twang, nothing at all like what Cash does. Continue Reading →

Community Interview Number 3: Jon Rosenberg of Goats

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Okay it’s time for Community Interview #3. This time Jon Rosenberg has agreed to answer your questions. Here’s how it works — post your question to JON in a comment in response to this post.

ONE QUESTION PER COMMENT, PLEASE.

If you see another question you think is interesting, moderate it up. If you see something not so useful, moderate it down. We’ll take questions for two weeks, until Friday, June 13th. We’ll send the top ten questions to Jon to answer and post those answers later this month. Continue Reading →

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The Friday Rookie Roundup

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All in one place, links to some new webcomics:

The Agency is a manga-esque comic about secret agents.

Gemini Bright, is the story of Matt, a bored teen taken on a family outing to Las Vegas. Upon encountering some magic kitsch, he is transported into an alternate universe populated with half-man/dragons and other weird creatures.

Counting the Cracks is a journal comic about the life of a student in Austraila.

Silly Cone V isn’t actually new but it is toiling towards the completion of its third year under the crippling burden of a complete lack of artistic skill. When reached for comment, the author Scrubbo said “What? Somebody reads that crap? GET OFF OF MY LAWN! YOU DAMN KIDS!” Continue Reading →