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.
By Kevin
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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.
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.
By Kevin
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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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August 2, 2011 – 10:47 pm
My name is Michael Magee. This year I attended another session of the San Diego Comic Con or more commonly known as SDCC 2011. Though this year’s event was filled with big announcements, great features, and the best costume parties this side of North America, there were also some harsh realities, uncertainty and emerging opportunities. [...]
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:
By Kevin
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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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Holy snap, ladies and gents.
The other digital shoe has finally dropped. Or… digitized?
I need to stop getting hung up on creative figurative language use.
Marvel Comics has announced Same Day Digital comic releases. For those unfamiliar with the term, historically (as far as the short history of digital purchasable comics goes ) there has been a delay between the time that comic issues release in stores and when you can purchase them online.
Preview night for the San Diego Comic Con – that massive vortex of nerd entertainment where comic book geeks and media lovers collide in a frenzied orgy of press announcements and celebrity guest appearances – is tonight. The Convention proper begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday, and you can bet some of the biggest entertainment news of the year will be heard/posted/tweeted/reposted all over the interwebs over the next half week.
Are you pumped, stoked, or (whatever the kids are saying these days) yet for SDCC?
If not, gather, ye huddled masses, and I will relate some of the stuff to be excited for at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.