I’ll be moderating a panel called Comics on Handhelds: Taking Webcomics Mobile at this year’s SXSW Interactive festival. We’ve combed the internets to find opinionated experts to discuss the growing industry of digitally-delivered comics and how to rethink what’s been done to create both global communities and viable business models. Our panelists will be Diesel Sweeties creator Rich Stevens, UClick.com’s Douglas Edwards, cartoonist Molly Crabapple and Longbox’s Rantz Hoseley; come on down to Austin… we’d love to have you there to take part in the discussion.
My contribution to Dean Haspiel’s excellent Next Door Neighbor series is a more experimental piece I wrote last year entitled Red Plastic. This was a chance for me to draw more effortless cartooning and I had a blast with it; you can read it for free here:
Lost in the shuffle of this weekend’s New York Comic-Con, I neglected to post that I’ve done illustrations for both this and next week’s “Intelligencer” section of New York Magazine; you can see both of them in print and online below:
Largehearted Boy asked me to contribute a playlist of songs/tracks that helped shape my creative process while working on 08: A GRAPHIC DIARY OF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, and so I began:
As my comics differ from prose in that there are writing/art/design/edit stages to the creative process, I tend to use different musical styles as inspiration-goosers depending on what stage of the creation I’m in. As a former DJ and music obsessive, I realize I’ve gone overboard and have broken up the playlist into stages…
Check out the original post here for the working-soundtrack behind the comics.
This week’s Approval Matrix in New York Magazine dubs 08 “highbrow/brilliant,” placing us between Michelle Obama and “Capt. Sully.”
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