November 18, 2009 – 2:12 am
The inauguration of comics to the digital world has been a slow, staggered process. I choose to examine it with similes involving rats and Super-Man.
Jay Bardyla, owner and founder of the award-winning Happy Harbor comic stores in Edmonton, talks about the Alberta comic community and shares his perspective on how the past year’s economic turbulence has impacted the retail comic industry.
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.
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).