Tag Archives: Independent Comic Creator

And the Winner is…..

But first a quick note from our founder:
*Ahem*
I want to thank all the participants and fablerites who’ve joined us for this great event. I know this isn’t quite the ballroom show that we’d like it to be but that just gives us something more to work towards for future contests.
As I’ve said, you’ve all worked [...]

Stay Tuned! – 5pm EST

Hello Fablerites!
Just a quick note here from the guys upstairs. We have chosen our Top 3 Grand Prize Winners and will be making the official announcement to everyone via the blog. Check back today at 5pm EST to find out who our Top 3 Finalists are, and Grand Prize winners of our first ever Cintiq [...]

The Votes are In! You Chose our Finalists!

We are coming near the end of our first contest here at The Fabler. We want to publicly thank all those who participated in putting in their submissions. The race was tough with some very creative story tellers!
To you the Fans. Your participation to helping your favorite creators has put them into the spot [...]

Profiling Robin Thompson, Vancouver Comic Art teacher and artist on Champions of Hell

Robin Thompson loves comics. I talked to him about what got him started teaching sequential art, how he came to work on the dark/supernatural comic Champions of Hell, and what an aspiring comic artist should know about the self-publishing industry.

Special Thanks To…..

Hi Everyone,
It’s me again. Now that the aftermath of the con is over and we’ve had a few moments to breath I wanted give special thanks to you all once again for showing great interest in The Fabler. We’ve been working very hard in the background ensuring that the site that we create is most [...]

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.

Profiling The Fabler's Eben Burgoon, writer and co-creator of the Comic Eben07

Eben Burgoon, the (some might say mythical) writer of Eben07 chatted with the Fabler about the past, present, and future of his covert ops ‘cleaning’ agent.

Eben is a contributor to the Fabler.com, and you could also check out samples on his work (featuring Dan Bethel’s art) over on the main site proper.

Profiling Jesse Jacobs of Blue Winter, Shapes in the Snow and One Million Mouths

The Fabler Blog talks to Jesse Jacobs, recent winner of the Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishing for his minicomic, Blue Winter, Shapes in the Snow.

An independent self-publisher in the truest sense of the term, Jesse has also gained some recognition for his comic strip One Million Mouths, which up until a few mouths ago was a recurring feature in Halifax newspaper the Coast.

Jesse talks about winning the award, drawing Richie Rich as a kid, and shares some details about his latest as-of-yet-unnamed minicomic.

Random Bits of Not Totally Useless Information Part 3: The Internet is a Big, Helpful Place

Third in a series of personal observations made about the Canadian Comic Industry. This one applies more broadly than the previous two.

Links galore to helpful comic-related websites! Does this mean the trilogy of posts is complete? Let’s just say it’s as complete as Star Wars episodes IV through VI.

Profiling Simon Roy of Jan's Atomic Heart

Simon Roy made a comic about a human operated robot body involved in a Lunar terrorist plot in the distant future in Frankfurt, Germany.

That comic is Jan’s Atomic Body, and this article features Roy and some of the crazy that goes on in his head.