Daniel "Merlin" Goodbrey is one of the artists I know both myself and Frank "Damonk" Cormier were pretty into when ComixTalk launched in 2003. So it's a bit surprising to me that we've had a 5 year lapse in interviewing him. These days Goodbrey has a day job teaching at in the School of Film, Music & Media at the University of Hertfordshire with a focus on Digital Animation. And far from disappearing these past years, Goodbrey has continued to create memorable work on the web and in print as well as continue to experiment with hypercomics and other experimental notions in comics. And not unlike the direction of "webcomics" as a whole, Goodbrey has increasingly blurred the lines between web and print in his creation of comics.
Derik A Badman looks at two webcomics from Top Shelf 2.0, Cave Adventure by Michael DeForge and Ritual of the Savage by Jed McGowan, in this month's Panels & Pictures.
I stumbled across this article recently about how current theories of perception are similar to what magicians have been exploiting for years. Essentially, the idea is that we can only "see" what our attention is focused on at a given time. They liken it to a "spotlight" which roams around and only let's you take in certain things under its view. Though in the case of vision all the things out of the "spotlight" are still within your visual field. You just don't "see" them.
Like baby birds who spread their wings and leave the nest, so too do webcomics grow up and leave their free hosting sites. Bellen!, the story of Ben and Ellen and the things they do, has just moved to new digs at boxbrown.com. Drop by and say hello.
Box Brown has been described as the rising webcomic star of 2008. He's also been described as "cute and chubby" by people who are supposedly in a position to know.
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