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Faith Erin Hicks is the creator of two critically well received webcomics, Demonology 101 and Ice.  She most recently put out the graphic novel Zombies Calling for which Hicks was just named "Favourite Canadian Comic Book Creator – English Language Publications" at this year’s Joe Shuster awards.

We’ve covered much of Hicks’ career in webcomics at ComixTalk from a review of D101 in March 2003 to interviews with her at the completion of D101 and during the start of her webcomic Ice.  She even did one of my favorite covers for ComixTalk for the April 2005 issue. 

Given the very recent news of her Shuster award it was great timing to catch up with her on life in Halifax, Nova Scotia and to get a few words on the new graphic novel, The War at Ellsmere, she’s currently working on.

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Aaron Diaz’s Dresden Codak is an inventive swirl of science and supposition.  The writing is fantastic speculative fiction all on its own but it’s complemented by Diaz’s damn impressive artwork.  ComixTalk had a review of the comic earlier this year, I caught up with the creator for an interview by email for this month’s issue.

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Dorothy Gambrell is a prolific creator, probably best known for her webcomic Cat and Girl.  We've interviewed her twice before, once for our March 2003 issue, and again for our October 2004 issue.  We've also reviewed her webcomic Cat and Girl and her webcomic The New Adventures of Death.  I got a chance to catch up via email with what she's working on now.

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John Allison has been making webcomics for almost as long as the world wide web has existed.  First with the comic Bobbins and then since 2002 with his current project Scary Go Round.  We reviewed Scary Go Round in our December 2005 issue and interviewed John for our 2003 issue (John also did the cover art for our December 2005 issue).  I got a chance to catch up with him via email on the eve of the 6th anniversary of Scary Go Round.

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Clay and Hampton Yount are the co-creators of the weekly-updated comedy comic Rob and Elliot.  Clay is also the creator of the now on hiatus Cosmobear as well as the creator of "Bikini Frisbee Suicide Days", the former Saturday-only series at Sluggy Freelance.

Rob and Elliot is one of those "wacky roommates doing crazy random things" comics that is a lot stronger than its thin premise would initially suggest.  As a comedy comic it scores on the most crucial criteria — it's funny.  And it does so through both the writing and the artwork. 

Read on for my interview with the brothers Yount.

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This month I got a chance to interview Jose Cabrera, the creator of the weekly webcomic Crying Macho Man which has a print collection of its first year out called Prime Cut.  Cabrera's work uses caricature, parody and gross-out humor, often all at once and has been attracting notice over the last year. Cartoonist Keith Knight wrote, “Jose Cabrera's Crying Macho Man touches me in ways I cannot explain. Sharp, well drawn, and funny. It deserves your attention." 

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