Category Archives: The Artists with Kevin DV

Profiling the Weird and Wonderful Aaron Leighton

First, there’s nothing wrong with Urology. It just has nothing to do with comics.

Second, this post features Aaron Leighton – who is in fact NOT a comic artist, but does produce a lot of really swell, unique, and innovative art professionally.

Fablerisms: Wherein we Segue from Free Comics to O.J. Simpson

What is a Fablerism?

It is a post that does not pertain to profiling or interviewing an artist of any sort, nor does it (predominantly) discuss critical items to Canadian indie comic creators.

In this post specifically, we talk news about The Fabler.com’s overhaul, Free Comic Book Day, the Siegel/Warner Bros. litigation hearings, and Scott McCloud.

Artist Interview: Ben Steeves of Zom-Ben and Our Time in Eden

This week we chat with Ben Steeves, artist on Our Time in Eden – an ongoing online graphic novel written by Gibson Twist, who we profiled on the site last month.

Steeves is also the author and artist of Zom-Ben, a webcomic featuring the adventures of a comic-illustrator-turned-zombie-superhero. We chat about early 90’s comic book trading cards, innocence lost, and the walking dead. Which sounds suspiciously like my 14th birthday.

Artist Interview: Kelly Tindall, Writer/Artist of Archie Snow

Hordak, Baloo the Bear, Judas Priest, and Snow Leopards: What do these things all have in common?

A: They are all topics of conversation when I interview Kelly Tindall, the Montreal-based artist responsible for all of those nifty backup stories in the Image Comics title Proof.

February 10th Fabler Update: in which the awesome hits the ceiling

A brief update, concerning Fabler interviews as well as (unrelated) the upcoming Convention season.

Few animals were harmed in the making of this post.

Antecedents and Archetypes of Modern Comics: Props Where Props Is Due.

So an antecedent and an archetype walk into a bar, right?
….Oh, forget it.

This post salutes the pulp magazines and early American comic strips of yesteryore for the impact they had in shaping the characters of the Golden and Silver Ages of comic books.

Profiling Gibson Twist, creator of Pictures of You and Our Time in Eden

Gibson Twist is an eloquent fellow who writes comic books for online distribution. Sometimes, as with Pictures of You, he also illustrates them.

You should probably get to know Gibson a bit better. Luckily for you, this happens to be a post profiling him. What chance! What fortune! What stroke of fate!… etc.

Really though, Gibson is a pretty darn rad artist/writer, and you would be remiss not to check out his work.

Leave it to Marvel to kick off the new decade with a high-profile lawsuit.

Marvel is suing Jack Kirby’s heirs over their notice to terminate a number of copyrights beginning in 2014. We provide CONTEXT and CLARITY into the issue for those CURIOUS about COPYRIGHT issues in COMICS.
Today is a day for alliterating the letter C.

The Fabler’s 2009 Yearbook : Notable Canadian Comics and the Fabler’s First Year Online.

The Fabler Blog rings in the new year with a look back at the happenings (haps) of 2009.

Profiling The Fabler’s Andrew Johnson, artist/writer of Kingdom and Golem: Small Town Massacre

Another featured Fabler! New Zealander Andrew Johnson chatted with the Fabler about his work in comics, with a specific focus on his web-based comic about a future dystopia, Kingdom.