Dylan Meconis and Bill Mudron talk about webcomics... and chocolate.

A friend summed it up this way: "Achewood is just ... weird," she said. She obviously liked it -- maybe because it is weird, maybe because it's also so familiar.

Matt Shepherd is quite simply the man behind the man-man. An Anglophone living in Quebec, Canada, he was roped up by the Comixpedia crew to become the Special Events editor. From his devious Canadian mind was spawned the latest installment of Fright Night, and the most current machination is the love-infested Blind Date event for the Valentine's period. In this interview, Matt spills the beans on his comic book pasts, and his burning, bilious jealousy of our Editor-in-Chief's things.

Stickler and Hat-trick, in association with Comixpedia present…

Stickler and Hat-trick at the Keyboard

Online, there are almost no entry barriers to the reporting and punditry market. With the advent of free blogging software, practically anyone can set up a site to report on any subject.

What is a Comixpedia feature?

It might be easier to explain what it's NOT.

It's not an interview, although experts and other relevant people might be consulted and quoted.

As another in a a special series of in-house interviews rolls around, Comixpedia Editor-in-Chief Damonk has his way with Leah Fitzgerald, the Interviews Editor, while her snuggle-pookie and Art Director, Bill Duncan, watches helplessly from the stands. Fitzgerald, an ex-journalism student who now works full time for (*GASP!*) a Canadian newspaper, has been with the Comixpedia since its earliest planning stages, and probably wonders why she hangs around with the rest of us freaks. She speaks here about herself, her life, the universe, and poutine.

Some serious and silly situations abound.

Over the last few columns we've talked about building your plot, creating a cast of characters, and we've been moving forward at each step to the real deal: writing the comic. All these pieces of the foundation have been laid and now it's time to build on top of it with our real story. It's time to stop analyzing and start doing.

You sit down relaxed, all ready to write Chapter 1 Page 1 and then...

And then...

...and then...

...Fear sets in.

Out of the deepest, darkest shadowy recesses of the human mind they stumble, shambling horrors dressed in tattered clothing and dripping gobbets of rotting flesh. They are the embodiment of our ancient collective fears of the dark, of death, of what happens after. They are the dead who walk the earth. No, they aren't your in-laws, nor those little identically-dressed girls that try to sell you cookies. They aren't even Pauly Shore.

They are zombies.

I've been creating webcomics since 1998. During that time, I've seen the rise of the Livejournal, blogs, forums, guestbooks and chat/tagboards (I had a Livejournal BEFORE they became popular). I've also heard many concerns coming from other webcartoonists about feedback. Instant feedback and detailed feedback. For the budding web cartoonist, this seems the main priority (second only to begging for donations, but that's another rant). Of course, everyone WANTS feedback. It's nice to know that when you're 'speaking', someone is 'listening'.