Rumor has it a 65-year-old Travis Charest traveled back in time and mysteriously provided a younger, less prolific version of himself with comic content to assuage Young Charest during the slow days.
No, but seriously, Travis Charest is currently doing a free webcomic called Spacegirl. Now is the part where you click here and go see the pretty comics. And who can argue with Free Ninety-nine?
This is a shame. Kitchen Sink Magazine is a fine publication, and a welcome alternative to Wizard, but they’re about to fold. Their distributor hasn’t paid them money owed. You can help KS raise $1,000 to print their last two issues here.
Felipe Smith has spraken! Mr. Smith is chained to his drawing table for the next three months, but we’re able to take a sneek peak at his daily grind through that YouTube future technology thingy.
For that hard-to-shop-for person on your Christmas list, why not try a Matthew Woodsen print, thanks to Thumbtack Press?
Thanks to Flight for the heads up.
This is one to read. Spurgeon’s series of holiday interviews gains some steam with his conversation with Joe McCulloch of Jog the Blog. It’s two of the more entertaining, intelligent voices in the comics cyber ghetto sharing some blog space.
Today at 5 pm David B. Schwartz and Sean Wang, the creators behind the new book MELTDOWN from Image Comics, will be in-store signing their work.
David was also nice enough to answer a few questions for us regarding how MELTDOWN came to be and comics in general:
David, is MELTDOWN your first comic?
It’s my first real mainstream comic. I wrote a little introductory page for New Mutants Annual #6 way back when I was a college intern at Marvel (circa 1989 - I’m clearly dating myself here). I also wrote a few superhero adventures starring Major League Baseball players that were given away in those teams’ cities. And some film and TV, but MELTDOWN’s really what I consider to be my comic book debut, and I’m tremendously thrilled and excited by the reaction it’s gotten from fans and press alike.
I understand that the inspiration for the story came from a Sunfire [Marvel Comics character] pitch?
That’s true. Several years back, Bernard Chang and I were planning on pitching some ideas to Marvel. He really wanted to work on Sunfire, so I came up with the basic story idea of Sunfire’s powers slowly killing him. Marvel didn’t bite, so I re-tooled the pitch (more…)
Just a quick word on the Comic’s Critic’s Circle of December 9th. It went GODDAMNED GOOD! My buddy Corey is putting together a post with pix for ya soon, and I’ll be cutting up some video in January that’ll show ya what you missed. Many thanks to the presenters, audience and everybody at the Melt. More than just a worthy experiment, I hope to have folks checking out what we did really soon - and then go for round 2. Stay tuned!
You’ve been warned. RSVP Mandatory
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This week I interview Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir on co-writing comics, comics versus television, and married life.
Tom Spurgeon has a fun, candid interview with Shaenon Garrity up on his site. Garrity is a comic book Jack-of-all-trades who, among other things, works as the content editor for ModernTales.com, an editor for Viz, and creator of the webcomic Narbonic.
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