| Dean Haspiel's STREET CODE returns! |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|11:15 am] |
Today marks the holiday return of STREET CODE, my semi-autobio webcomic at Zuda, featuring the 4pp story "Snow Dope."
If you're new to STREET CODE, please take the time to read season one from last year. Otherwise, veterans of STREET CODE can skip to pages 61-64 and read the latest tale.
http://www.zudacomics.com/street_code
Thank you and enjoy!
--Dino
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| Frank Quitely recommends ACT-I-VATE at TCJ.com |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|12:25 pm] |
Excerpt:
Gibbons:
I must say, aesthetically speaking, all I’ve ever done and all I’ve ever wanted to do is comics. Any kind of painting I’ve done, I’ve had to teach myself as I’ve gone along. My creative thoughts always go toward telling stories and I think, for the future, as you mentioned, there are some really interesting ways of doing this online and it also means now that, as an artist, you can get your work out there at very little cost. So, I find that, like you, a really fascinating path to pursue.
Quitely:
I’ve actually been looking at a few webcomics the past year or so. There’s a few I’ve been following on a site called Act-I-Vate, and Transition X. Cameron Stewart, he’s got a great one too, Dan Goldman and Dean Haspiel have done some lovely work recently. Karl Kerschl’s one I actually just discovered a couple of days ago. I know his work through American superhero comics and he’s really good, he does some great action sequences, blah, blah, blah… and then I saw the stuff that he was doing in his own webcomic and it’s just phenomenal. It’s not to take away from what he does professionally up until recently, that’s all I had seen and I had a very high opinion of his work quite apart from what we’re saying about aesthetics, the ease and cheapness with which people can actually put out their own material means that a lot of people are putting out work that’s quite personal whether it’s their own world view or characters that they always draw in their sketchbooks even though they didn’t have an outlet for them before or autobiographical stuff. It’s kind of like the best of what I like about small press and self-publishing. That feeling that you’re actually reading somebody’s diary: You feel a real contact that I don’t usually feel in mainstream comics. So, I think that’s really exciting too.
Read the entire Dave Gibbons/Frank Quitely interview here: http://www.tcj.com/?p=1410&page=1 |
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| THE ACT-I-VATE EXPERIENCE DOCUMENTARY |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:03 am] |
The ACT-I-VATE Experience, a documentary directed and produced by Seth Kushner and Carlos Molina, (CulturePopProductions.com) gives a behind-the-scenes look at the premiere webcomics collective.
OR, VIEW THE ACT-I-VATE EXPERIENCE HERE: http://vimeo.com/8204237
“What began as a promo piece for ACT-I-VATE became an informative film about webcomics, web vs. print, and the future of the industry,” says Seth.
The ACT-I-VATE experience features interviews with and art by such comics luminaries as Dean Haspiel, Nick Bertozzi, Mike Cavallaro, Simon Fraser, Tim Hamilton, Leland Purvis, Molly Crabapple, Kevin, Colden, Dan Goldman, Josh Neufeld and many more.
The film has already premiered at the Baltimore Comic-Con, Brooklyn’s King Con, APE in San Francisco, Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago, and online at Newsarama.co
ACT-I-VATE, the premiere webcomix collective, features original, serialized graphic novels and is updated daily. ACT-I-VATE's select artists produce their signature work sans editorial oversight and offer their comix for free to an ever-growing audience of loyal readers. In addition to these high-quality comix, ACT-I-VATE is known for having lifted the veil between creation, creator, and reader by providing a forum for spirited dialogue between audience and auteur. The website confirms one of ACT-I-VATE's core tenets: that the artists and writers of this curated comix community are the optimal providers of intellectual properties and original content. http://www.act-i-vate.com/ |
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| Mugwhump Continues Inexorably! |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|06:34 am] |
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Mugwhump the Great continues today, with Mugwhump and Billy meeting another nasty man with a gun. Oh dear. Just as well Billy's got a clean pair of trousers.
Read today's episode here... get up to speed with the current chapter here... or start again from the very beginning here. |
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| Politics and Prose Favorite Graphic Literature of the Year - featuring THE ACT-I-VATE PRIMER |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|01:04 am] |
THE ACT-I-VATE PRIMER (IDW, $24.99) is the first print edition of the webcomics available on Act-I-Vate.com, an award-winning webcomic collective. Publishing something new every day, Act-I-Vate has assembled some of the best comic creators in the industry. There’s a little of everything in the collection, from the fantasy, sword-and-sorcery dreams of “Sam and Lilah,” to the childlike fable of “Goodnight, Max,” to the incomplete undersea fantasy of “Loviathan,” Act-I-Vate Primer maintains a surprisingly high quality of uncensored creator-owned work and is a perfect window into this fast growing, unbridled community. -- Adam Waterreus
http://www.politics-prose.com/graphic-novels/dec09/page4 |
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