Monthly Archives: May 2009

Profiling Troy Little

Lecherously evil brit-punk spirits, ghoulish graveyard parties, stadium pop rock stage antics, and the zombie apocalypse.

All this and more adds up to just one day’s adventures for the girls of ‘Angora Napkin’, protagonists of Troy Little’s graphic novel of the same name and stars of their own upcoming pilot on Teletoon.

Troy talks about the Angora Napkin cartoon & graphic novel, as well as his ongoing three-volume epic, Chiaroscuro.

Creator Interview: Gareth Gaudin

Next month, Gareth Gaudin of Legends Comic and Books in Victoria, BC. will be celebrating a milestone that few comic artists ever reach. As of June, the artist/comic shop co-owner will have been producing one comic strip a day, every day, for the past five years.

I talked to Gareth about his one-strip-a-day commitment, the success of his character the Perogy Cat, and the state of the comic scene in Victoria.

Profiling Richard Grzela

Have you ever put down a comic book that you just finished reading, and been so inspired by the world you were looking into that you wished you could experience it firsthand yourself?

Richard Grzela, a Calgarian comic book writer/artist and entrepreneur, has attempted to tap into that desire with his company 14uComics (pronounced “one for you” comics).

Creator Interview: Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston, Art Director for the Calgary-based animation company New Machine Studios, talks about his first foray into comic books with Jet Pack Mike.
Interview by Kevin de Vlaming

As any indie comic artist will tell you, it’s no easy task to put together your first comic book. Finding the time around working a full time job [...]