September 1, 2010 – 6:30 am
Today, September 1st, marks the relaunch of Niki Smith and Mike Jasper’s Zuda comic In Maps & Legends as a digital, issue-based series.
Their comic, which has been described as a contemporary fantasy story with steam punk and sci-fi elements, won the November 2009 Zuda competition. When Zuda shut down, they were faced with the difficult choice of how to proceed with their comic. The Fabler chatted with them about their decision, their thoughts on Zuda’s demise, and about where the comic is headed.
Jim Zubkavich, project manager and co-founder of UDON Entertainment, has a new series coming out through Image Comics that looks like it will kick some major bone tissue. The title? Skullkickers. The premise? Two un-named mercenaries stir up some major trouble in a ’sassy’ fantasy setting. The Fabler caught up with Jim to chat about Skullkickers as well as a decade of UDON.
A substitute teacher by day, Jonathon fills much of the rest of his time churning out wildly imaginative webcomics for his website, jonathondalton.com. The subject matter of these comics varies greatly – you’re just as likely to stumble upon a story rooted in ancient Aztec lore as you are a humorous vignette exploring the secret origins of Chop Suey.
The former comic, which Dalton describes as a “Mesoamerican fantasy story”, recently earned him a grant from the Xeric Foundation – an organization dedicated to provided yearly financial assistance to committed comic book self-publishers.
When sometime-superheroes get somewhat autobiographical…
When the combined comics of one creative Calgarian threaten to overwhelm the humble corner of the interweb that they occupy…
One name resounds clearly amidst the din. (the din?)
Damian Willcox is… dorkboy.
(cue theatrical John Williams knockoff score)
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Posted in Canadian Comics
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Also tagged Adobe Illustrator, Calgary, Comic Artist, Damian Willcox, dorkboy, Dorkboy Comics, kernel corn and peater, Manga Studio, sketchbook comics, SketchBook Mobile, skully., Webcomics, workin jones
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This week’s interviewee is Ethan Rilly, the Toronto-based author and artist of Pope Hats. Pope Hats # 1 was a Xeric Foundation Grant-winning comic book that obtained high praise for its fresh art, natural dialogue, and quirky narrative. I talked to Ethan about his graphic novel follow-up to Pope Hats # 1, as well as his illustrative background and finding a balance between non-artistic-work and cartooning.
Adam Bourret wrote a comic book called I’m Crazy, which was about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Gay Romance, Hallucinations, Drugs, and Secrets. If this doesn’t pique your initial interest, you probably wouldn’t be interested in this interview and I would instead highly recommend visiting the official website for the Family Circus (http://www.familycircus.com/).
If you are interested, in this post Adam talks about winning the Best English Award at Expozine, how people living with OCD have responded to his book, and why he wouldn’t do another regular webcomic. He also talks about his next book, “Mighty Ernestine”. Awesomeness ensues.
By Kevin
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Posted in Canadian Comics
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Also tagged Adam Bourret, Comic, Comic Artist, Doug Wright Awards, Gay Romance, I'm Crazy, Mighty Ernestine, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Self-publisher, Webcomic, Xeric Grant
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April 14, 2010 – 12:41 pm
This week The Fabler Blog chats up Eric Vedder, creator of the Transmission X webcomic Aardehn and penciler for Udon Comics.
Eric aka Ved! aka The World’s Greatest Detective was more than willing to divulge critical info about his experience working on Darkstalkers, his influences with the webcomic Aardehn, and how posting an update to his webcomic predominantly featuring probing tentacles made him uneasy (also the reasoning behind why he posted it anyway).
Marta Chudolinska put together a 90 page graphic novel entirely out of linocuts. If that’s not impressive, I’ll eat my hat.
Back + Forth, the graphic novel in question, also made the Doug Wright Award shortlist for Best Book this year.
I talked to Marta about her thoughts regarding the nomination, her favorite comics, and Roland Barthes.
The Fabler interviews Colleen macIsaac, indie illustrator, minicomic creator, and animator of short films extraordinaire!
Speaking of the extraordinary, it does occur to me that un-extraordinary is the same as ordinary. Ordinary just didn’t fit with the context. Ahem.
February 24, 2010 – 6:00 am
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.