INTERVIEWS
CBR talks with Danielle Corsetto, the creator of the damn-funny Girls With Slingshots.

REVIEWS
I wrote a recent review of Faith Erin Hicks' graphic novel Zombies Calling and completely missed some visual storytelling involved in the "infection" and some other bits about the main characters.  Over at the SLG blog, editor Jennifer deGuzman shows me the light!

GIMME THE GIMMICK!
For all I know this will be a really good webcomic.  After all it's been "more than ten years in development.".  But the press release is stressing that the new comic from Kelly J. Compeau, The Black Tower, is "an ad-supported interactive webcomic series targeted at environmentally conscious teens and adults."  Oh it gets better.  Let me just snip from the press release:

What's unique about this project is the interactive element, a first in the comics industry. Every issue of "The Black Tower" will be made available online...  with clickable links to product placement advertisers, music videos and YouTube/MySpacetv shorts (live-action extensions of the comic book), Wikipedia pages and internal Black Tower factoid/who's-who webpages, to help new readers get up-to-speed on what's going on. There will also be links to fully functional faux websites seen being accessed by characters in the webcomic, and blogs written "in character", with comments posted by devoted fans who choose to play along with the charade. All readers have to do to access these special features (Easter eggs) is roll their mouse over the panel featuring the "Interactive Icon" (the little black & white X in the bottom corner of the pic) and they'll be taken to a website that may feature the product shown in that panel, or it may take them to a music video for the band featured in that panel, or a character's MySpace page etc. If the comics do exceptionally well over the first two of its expected six-year run, Compeau hopes to expand "The Black Tower" empire by launching a video game companion, paperback novels, action figures, board games, trading cards, toy props & weapons, posters, calendars, and a clothing & jewelry line, among other things.

In all seriousness, this could be a lot of fun but oy that press release is not helping...

I switched out the desktop monitor for the laptop in the sketch - I think this makes it easier to see the characters in the background. You can see in Bob’s browser the same image, which repeats into infinity.

I don’t want to reveal the title just yet, but I think it has a good ring to it. =)

Hurm News: Relaunching the Hurm Studio site!

Hurm News: Relaunching the Hurm Studio site!

Thinking about placing the title in the display. Anyway, I’m sure there will be more iterations, but here’s what I’ve got tonight.

-Krishna

I know... I know.... I've already waxed hysterical over the new, evil Mary Marvel In Final Crisis #3 written by Grant Morrison. I've already made it clear that I thought that a characterization such as that had so many possibilities and was being undervalued in its current incarnation. I mean... a truly evil Mary Marvel would be thrilling to draw and to write, right? I was certain of it -- as if I had already seen it. So, I'm doing this charity appearance in Moorestown, NJ, this Saturday. part of the gig is that my friend Michael is gathering comics and...

Apologies for not posting much in a while. Been busy working on a ton of projects. one which has been an upgrade to the first volume of the Pewfell Archive. My co-writer, Adam Prosser, and I have been hard at work writing several new stories, I've resurrected some long-retired material from the archives and with the help of colorist Carla Costa have colored it for the first time. We hope this new, expanded edition will provide the perfect entry point to the strip that the series had been lacking for a while now. Starting Monday, I'll be publishing updates 5 days a week for the next couple of months as the new stuff is released. You'll be able to see it all right here.

For now here is the cover (which I did post here already a couple of months ago -- new strips on Monday, I promise!) and the promotional blurb I'm releasing with it:

Meet Pewfell, a slacker wizard who lives in the fabulous city of Spirekassle. He's married to Tina the warrior princess and works a day job in a local pharmacy. When Tina has to take a month off due to a shortage of orc settlements to pillage, Pewfell must find other ways to supplement his income...

Yeah, that's a pretty arrogant subject line considering that I'm promoting my own work here, but this week's got my all-time favorite William Bazillion scenario.

Keep in mind that I've had several hundred Doug Henning clones, time travel and gigantic nutcracker robots leading a toy army in the employ of Santa's Nazi successor, and you'll realize that I don't throw around "all-time favorite William Bazillion scenario" lightly.

If that doesn't grab you, I give up:

http://www.williambazillion.com