Who can guess all of the characters in the new ComixTALK cover art from AP Furtado? Plus quick updates for Tuesday morning:
INTERVIEWS: Canadians interview Ryan North and Erika Moen and Jennifer Contino interviews Eliza Frye about her Eisner-nominated mystery webcomic, The Lady's Murder.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE!: Hey look new website for Erfworld!
Who can guess all of the characters in the new ComixTALK cover art from AP Furtado? Plus quick updates for Monday morning:
REVIEWS
Yours truly reviewed Pax Avalon by Steven "Reece" Friesen and Old Man Winter and Other Sordid Tales by J.T. Yost.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
The 2D Goggles comic features the adventures of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace (h/t to Wired’s Geek Dad blog). Very geeky, very funny!
A couple of animated bits of awesome this morning — first a new one from Tracy White called "Smoking":
Next – "Quimby the Mouse" by Chris Ware — animated by John Kuramoto (from This American Life):
Pax Avalon: Conflict Revolution by Steven "Reece" Frisen is a mess of a book.
I've had a copy of J.T. Yost's Xeric Award winning book, Old Man Winter and Other Sordid Tales for at least a couple weeks now. And it's got some good stuff in it – easy to see why it caught the eyes of the Xeric Grant folks. The first tale, "OId Man Winter" is new (the other stories in the book have all appeared elsewhere previously) and is a well-done small story with a lot of emotional punch about an old man's small circuit in life. It has the feel of a good character-driven indie movie and I'd recommend the book and future work from Yost on the basis of it alone.
I love the new cover art from AP. Furtado! How many characters can you name?
Boing Boing has a link to a new color e-ink technology that looks interesting. One step closer to digital comics nerdvana?
What is Comic Feast?
Acording to founder and CEO Josh Elder’s Facebook page, it’s a "a digital comics distribution and retail platform."
EVENTS
Tomorrow’s Free Comic Book Day and while digital comics are not officially invited to play, I’ve been seeing various webcomics making special offers anyway. UCLICK (btw is UCLICK really "the #1 distributor of comics on the web and on mobile phones" as they claim?) is offering the first issues of several of titles for free on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch, beginning Friday afternoon, May 1, until Saturday, May 2, at 11:59 p.m. (PST).
REVIEWS
DIgital Strips reviews Frequently Asked Questions, the latest print collection from the comic Unshelved by writer Gene Ambaum and artist Bill Barnes.
Derik Badman reviews the print collection, Beanworld Book 1: Wahoolazuma.
INTERVIEWS
Daily Cross Hatch has the first half of an interview with Gene Yang up (and another part of its multipart interview with Box Brown.)
JUSTIFY SOMEONE ELSE’S HYPE
Eric Trauttman, Brandon Jerwa, David Messina, and Mirco Pierfederici are launching a webcomic called Wide Awake – a horror/adventure tale that got its proof-of-concept in the second “Popgun” anthology. They will have a six-page teaser available on Free Comic Book Day this Saturday.
AWARDS
Tom Spurgeon encourages you to "Vote Early, Vote Often, Vote Eisners" – voting on the nominees for the 2009 Eisner Awards lasts until June 15th. More information is here.
Around the World in Several Blogs
Comics Alliance notes the Penny Arcade comic on the recent "no gays in Star Wars" controversy…
Nice interview between two talented cartoonists: Matthew Reidsma (High Maintenance Machine) and Marek Bennett (Mimi’s Doughnuts):
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