November 23, 2011 – 6:31 am
In continuing our theme of featuring artists with comics currently featured on The Fabler, for this week’s interview we caught up with Jordan Kotzebue (aka thejmon) to talk about his webcomic Hominids.
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Tagged Bejeweled, Comic Artist, Fabler Spotlight, Heroes, Hominids, Jordan Kotzebue, Kotzebue Brothers, League of Legends, Neanderthals, PopCap, Seattle, Sly Cooper, Zumba
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November 16, 2011 – 6:33 am
Comic Books have long been at the forefront of battles over censorship and freedom of speech in contemporary literature, and a new press release this past week from the Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund reaffirms their commitment to the cause.
Justice was meted out yesterday as the assclown who robbed a mentally disabled Superman super-fan of thousands of dollars worth of comics and collectibles pertaining to the Man of Steel received his sentencing.
Perhaps inevitably, Kill Shakespeare gets a live stage adaptation.
November 9, 2011 – 6:30 am
Robin Meyer, aka ImaginaryGirl, is a character in a wittily absurd comic called Real Life Fiction.
Perpetually accompanied by a squirrel who has taken to nesting on her head, Real Life Fiction arbitrarily segues between Robin’s daily musings and bouts of surreal randomness. What constitutes ’surreal randomness’, you might ask?
Pink crime fighting unicorn men, gladiatorial figure skating, and polar bear milking for Coca-Cola… to name a few of the many topics featured in RLF.
Robin is also the author, and the concepts she writes and illustrates into Real Life Fiction are drawn from whatever happens to spark her imagination.
Real Life Fiction is just one of the many comics that can be currently found on The Fabler webcomics portal. We here at the Fabler thought it might be neat to showcase some of the talent that has popped up around the site, and ImaginaryGirl (Robin) immediately sprang to mind.
October 19, 2011 – 6:30 am
Back in May 2010 when I posted an interview with Ethan Rilly about his 2008 minicomic Pope Hats, I described it as simultaneously surreal and very familiar. The comic, which saw wider distribution via publisher AdHouse Books in 2009, introduced us to roommates Frances and Vickie. Vickie is an alcoholic party girl, and Frances is ostensibly your average, down-to-earth type just looking to eke out a living in the world. Except of course for her numerous idiosyncratic behaviors – like, for instance, maintaining an ongoing dialogue with a fictional ghost named Sarsgaard.
At the time of my interview with Ethan, he was working on a graphic novel follow up to his well-received debut effort.
Now, nearly a year and a half later, Pope Hats #2 is available for purchase. It may not be voluminous in nature or feature talking ghosts, but what we are given is presented with purposeful sincerity and a unique sort of human empathy. Art-wise, solid, confident linework and memorable cityscape imagery establish a visually backdrop against which Ethan’s characters casually live out their lives.
Ethan was kind enough to field a few more interview questions for The Fabler, ranging in topic from his decisions involving Pope Hats and thoughts on having Chester Brown moderate the book launch, to his own current comic book picks and preferences.
October 5, 2011 – 6:30 am
Do you know Andrew Foley?
You may have heard of him as ‘that guy who co-wrote the Cowboys and Aliens graphic novel, and then subsequently had his name unattached from anything remotely relating to the property and, later, film’.
Which I wouldn’t be miffed about at all if it happened to me.
Alternately, you might have been fortunate enough to read one of his less widely distributed original comics, like Parting Ways (drawn by Scott Mooney and Nick Craine) or The Holiday Men in The Massacre Memorial Day Sale Massacre (art by Nick Johnson).
If you were really, REALLY lucky you may have even read one of the five issues from a 2006 vampire satire miniseries he did alongside (then-budding) comic star Fiona Staples. The miniseries, titled ‘Done to Death’, told the two distinct yet inexorably linked stories of a serial-killing editor out to rid the world of bad writers and a vampire so antithetical to Anne Rice, it would make Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise choke on their sweet goblets of blood.
September 21, 2011 – 6:30 am
Hey Fabler pals. Or, ‘Hey, Fabler pals’ – as in ‘hey look, there are some pals of The Fabler’.
I wanted to bring a couple of blogs to your attention. Because pals share that sort of thing. And! A new TPB release from Andrew Foley and Fiona Staples that you should most definitely read.
September 7, 2011 – 6:30 am
It seems that every time I log on to The Fabler to check out the latest submissions/entries, I find something that impresses me.
And not like, ‘Oh that’s quaint. I’m sort of impressed, but I’d rather just eat my sandwich,’ sort of impressed. Like, genuinely, truly, ‘oh man, we have stuff that good on here?!’ impressed.
Which is rad. Because one, it means The Fabler isn’t ostensibly shitty, which as it turns out is good for business. Also because two, more importantly, it means that while the ‘big boy’ publishers continue to slowly creep over the digital landscape (did somebody say same day digital?) – there exists an ambitious horde of indie comic creators lurking in the rafters of the interwebs, just itching to realize their full potential.
August 17, 2011 – 6:31 am
Just another month in the high stakes world of comic books and the people that love them.
There are some genuinely interesting items making headlines on the sequential front this month, and I would be remiss if I didn’t touch on a few of them here. From professional perspectives on a call to boycott one of the two major publishers (hint: not DC) to the wildly successful endeavours of a group of female artists and writers to kickstart their own new anthology, and finally to the birth of a new Canadian Comic Festival.
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Tagged Fiona Staples, Gail Simone, Jack Kirby, Kickstarter, Lawsuit, Marc Toberoff, Marvel Comics, Scott McCloud, Seth, Steve Bisette, The Comics Reporter, VanCAF, Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, Womanthology
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Camilla D’Errico (Sky Pirates of Neo Terra), Colin Upton (Buddha on the Road), Angela Melick (Wasted Talent), and Steve Rolston (Ghost Projekt).
What do these comic book artists have in common? (Other than that they are all based in Vancouver, BC)
They represent just a handful of the fantastically diverse talents who have contributed to Cloudscape Comics over the years.
Cloudscape is a Vancouver-based comic collective that has published four comic anthologies since their inception in 2008. For more about who they are and what they do, I would direct your attention to this post I wrote profiling the group.
This past year, the folks behind Cloudscape Comics decided to try their luck in the wonderful world of internet crowdsourcing.
Now that the dust has cleared from this past weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con International, we can all sit back and reflect for a spell on just what went down.
No one man could hope to cover everything that went down, so I’ll just go over a few of the items I thought were of particular interest. For ease of navigation, I think we could reasonably break the comic-related haps into three main categories:
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Tagged Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers Movie, Batman: Year One, Cowboys and Aliens, DC Comics, Defenders, Frank Miller, Garth Ennis, Holy Terror, Matt Fraction, New 52, Rhys Ifans, San Diego Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con International, Stitched, The Crow, The Dark Knight Returns, The Hulk
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