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Poster boy for Warcraft??? 

The new installment of Making Good went up today. This week I interview Phil Hester on the art of writing the short comic.

Enjoy!

I’ve been keeping my eye on this artist Matthew Woodson for I guess a couple of years now. I can’t quite articulate my fondness for his art beyond the sense that it resonates something fierce with me. He’s a fantastic illustrator and visual storyteller. Most of his comics work thus far has been short form works in anthologies such as Meathaus and Flight.

Matthew has a new art blog with a focus on his process, which is often times a major benifit for fellow illustrators.

It’s been fabled that Mr. Woodson has a graphic novel in the works with Top Shelf, written by Brian Wood. Little mentions of the comic have been popping up from time to time for a while now. It’s one of those that I’m looking forward to and the last thing I heard is that it should drop sometime in 2007.

[link from the good folks at Meathaus]

Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, spoke with Entertainment Weekly about bringing back Buffy for an 8th season — and doing it in comic books. Whedon has an enormous fan base outside of comics and this goes a long way as far as bringing in new readers to the industry.

Whedon also mentions that he’ll be using fan-favorite characters Spike and Angel sparingly, in spite of competitor IDW’s publishing rights. He has the overall Power, naturally.

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I’m writing a new column for the recently revamped and re-launched comic writers’ resource website Scryptic Studios.

The column is called Making Good, and is about making good on your vision to be a writer, on making good comics, and on making a good life for yourself while you’re at it. It’s an interview-based column that will be covering some of the more practical aspects of being a writer, such as dayjobs, time management, family and collaboration.

There is also a column-within-a-column called Ground Floor, in which I will be creating a brand new comic, from scratch to publication, right before your very eyes. Mistakes and all. This week I need your feedback for Ground Floor, so be sure to read the column then vote in the poll that’s been set up. See you there!

I wrote a 5 page comic for “Heroes” that you can find here:

http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/

I hope you all enjoy!

Sorry for the silence lately, been mired in my own muck lately. I’ll be back with some force after Thanksgiving.

Come celebrate the new release of Jane’s World Vol. 6, the latest comic drama by cartoonist and writer Paige Braddock.

• Book signing by Paige Braddock

• Tunes by DJ Gee

• Cocktails & Snacks

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