Shayna Marchese
Voids, Part 8
Submitted by Ataraxia on September 15, 2008 - 22:10
Shayna Marchese's literary strip Voids enters part 8 this week. Andrew's book of horror stories has been released, and Sara just woke up in a graveyard. Is there a meaning to this coincidence?
News To Use for Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 2, 2007 - 09:16
We're having this giveaway content for BLADE: HOUSE OF CHTHON and the deadline is this Friday October 5th. I am giving away 5 copies so until we get more than 5 entries you can't lose by entering... details on the contest here.
RECENT FEATURE ARTICLES
- Recent interviews include Cool Cat Cartoonist: An Interview with Gisele Lagace; Filling the Void: An Interview with Shayna Marchesei; and Talking with PC Weenies Creator Krishna Sadasivam. Recent features include Integrating Text And Images In Comics; and Out of the Inkwell: Print Comics Now on the Web.
BUSINESS
- The most excellent band Radiohead left their label a year or so ago. Instead of signing with a new label they've decided to release their latest album over the intertubes. And, shades of webcomics, the price you pay for the download version... is up to you. You can pay zero or ten dollars or thirty pounds -- it's up to you.
OTHER HEADLINES
- Bomb Shelter has a podcast up on this year's Webcomic Idol.
- Brandon Carr is back, working on Weird Adventures in Unemployment, which according to credited creator Mike Strang, is a Platinum Studios-owned webcomic that Strang no longer has any thing to do with.
Justify my Dead Tree Hype
- Faith Erin Hicks (creator of the webcomic Ice) has a comic coming out of SLG in November called Zombies Calling with a great nod-to-the-Clash cover. It was also just her 29th birthday. Happy Birthday!
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Editorial cartoonist Andrew Wahl recently launched “An Off the Wahl Perspective,†a new blog featuring his latest cartoons. The OtWP Blog also includes Wahl’s behind-the-toon commentaries, along with news about Off the Wahl Productions other projects.
- An interview with Max Estes, creator of My Life As a Bunny. (h/t Journalista!)
- Brian Roney reviews Shortpacked!
SEPTEMBER FEATURE ARTICLES, OCTOBER COVER ART AND TODAY'S NEWS
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 1, 2007 - 08:49
Welcome to October! A big thanks to Spike, creator of Templar, Arizona, for creating this month's cover art. This past weekend we posted the rest of the September issue: interviews with Gisele Lagace and Shayna Marchese; a feature by Grant Thomas examining the integration of text and images with an interesting look at different ways to use speech bubbles; and Michael Payne looks at some great print comics that have moved to embrace the web. More interesting articles are on their way in October...
And in other news...
HEADLINES
- Jerzy Drozd (Make Like A Tree Comics) announced the launch of a new anthology series: Sugary Serials -- inspired by the kinds of stories found in Saturday morning cartoons, and created by some of the finest artists of the webcomics and print comics industries. A few of the many creators signed on to create stories include: Kitsy and KimonoStereo, Nemu*Nemu; Scott Neely, Scooby Doo; Robert Burke Richardson, Elf Help; Richard Stevens, Private Eye Butterfly; and Sara Turner, File 49. Read Jerzy's full blog post for all the details.
MILESTONES
- Tim Demeter's Reckless Life is over! The End. Finale! Wow - congrats to Tim for finishing the whole story and crafting a great webcomic.
- The Devil's Panties reaches 2000 episodes. Congrats to Jennie Breeden.
- Congrats to Corey Marie who announced she's expecting her first child next March.
- The opinionated webcomic Cox & Forkum has called it quits. In this case it appears the writer has decided he can't spend the time needed on it anymore because of his day job and family life. (Daryl Cagle has an interview with them here. ComixTalk reviewed them way back in 2003.)
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
- A recent Big Fat Whale from Brian McFadden on why protesting maybe doesn't always work so well at getting results...
EVENTS
- If you're in Chicago tonight, Tim Broderick flags a special event you should know about.
- Check out the upcoming Sinister Bedfellows exhibit in Carrboro, NC, USA.
TECHNOLOGY
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Andrew Farrago has an interview with Jason Thompson, the author of Manga: The Complete Guide. Thompson read and reviewed every English-language manga ever released in preparation for his new book. (h/t Dirk Deppey)
- At The Telegraph, Robert Colvile writes up webcomics with comments from Chris Onstad, Gary Tyrrell and others. (h/t Dirk Deppey)
Filling the Void: An Interview with Shayna Marchese
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Shayna Marchese is the creator of Voids, a webcomic about Sara, a young woman in New York City. I like Voids a lot -- it's a quiet comic that casts a careful eye on its main character as well as the city she lives in. I caught up with Marchese via email earlier this month to find out a little more about her and Voids.
Can you tell us a little about yourself? Where are you now: where are you from?
Happy Weekend!
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on September 7, 2007 - 10:09
COMIXTALK
- We've got a cool new cover up from Shayna Marchese. Shayna is the creator of the webcomic Voids which you should definitely check out if you're aren't already a fan.
- We're always looking for contributors - if you're interested in writing a feature on a topic related to webcomics, a review of a webcomic or a short column about your own experiences in webcomics drop me an email at xerexes AT comixpedia DOT com.
- Advertising on our top banner space via Project Wonderful is going cheap these days. Thanks to current-this-moment sponsor, the webcomic Crying Macho Man. We've also got spots open on our non-premium ad space (left column) - click here if you're interested.
REVIEWS
- A nice review of A Softer World at the blog Comics Should Be Good. A Softer World has been around for awhile now but creators Joey Comeau (writer) and Emily Horne (photographer, designer) are still crafting a comic that manages to provoke your all of your emotions (not just the funnybone).
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- FLEEN's resident academic Anne Thalheimer talks up MoCCA's new webcomic exhibit. (More details on the exhibit here)
- Stephen DeStefano proposes the unified theory of Bluto J. Brutus to explain the popular Popeye bad guy(s). (link from Dirk Deppey)
Life in Links for Friday, July 13, 2007
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 13, 2007 - 08:56
HEADLINES
- Todd Allen revisits the DC Comics/Zuda Webcomics story to parse what we actually know about it so far.
REVIEWS
DEAD TREES
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Somehow Ray Smuckles from Achewood wrote about his adventures in Australia for the Daily Telegraph.
- Matt Butcher takes over the reins of the comics review site Independent Propaganda.
- ToonZone.net’s Cartoons Dammit! launches a new teen-horror webcomic, Shadowgirls, written by David A. Rodriguez and illustrated by Dave Reynolds.
- Platinum Studio-owned news site Broken Frontier has interviews with last year's Comic Book Challenge contest runners-up.
Thursday News And Blues Round Up (UPDATED)
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on March 1, 2007 - 13:04
COMIXPEDIA
I want to throw out a thanks to current (and very recent) sponsors of Comixpedia including the movie The Abandoned and the webcomics Zortic, I See You and O''deer. We have three slots available right now on the side bar - cheap! - click here to get more details and order.
INTERVIEWS
- McKenzee and Ursula Vernon got "namechecked" by the Indy Weekly in an article on the North Carolina comics scene. It's a well-done article.
- An interview with Traci Spencer, creator of the the fantasy/adventure comic Compass published on Girl-A-Matic.
- An interview with the Marvelous Patric at ComicBloc.
- Thomas Nickel writes that he interviewed David Lloyd of V for Vendetta and Kickback-fame about his first very own graphic novel Kickback. The interview can be found here.
- Belated link - but Brigid has a good interview up at Digital Strips with Wendy Pini, the creator of Elfquest, who announced at the New York Comicon, that in conjunction with publisher Go! Comi, Pini would be creating a three-volume, full color manga, The Masque of the Red Death, based on the Edgar Allen Poe story of the same name. The comic will be published first as a webcomic before collection in print volumes.
- Digital Strips also has an interview up with Gabe Strine, the creator of Brinkerhoff.
TOOLS
- A new version of Balloonist is out - the Balloonist software creates cartoon speech bubbles. Some of the new features in version 2.0 are: Curved Stems, Ruffle Harmonics, Better Line Break Control, Zoom Control, and well more (click for details). I've never used this software but I've seen it and the creators seemed to have spent much of the effort behind the new version in responding to current users requests.
EVENTS
- The date for 24 Hour Comics Day 2007 is Saturday, October 20th. If you're interested in being or recruiting a host for this event you can get more details here on what hosts are required to agree to.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
- I've been meaning to plug the wonderful (relatively) new comic Voids by Shayna Marchese. Today, she posted a Flickr series of photos on how she creates the comic - that's as good a hook as any!
- The juggernaut that is Richard Stevens III rolls on. He recently discovered a quote of his showing up in Google's quote-a-nator thingee. (more details on the Diesel Sweeties site below the comic) Also is it just me or does the mohawked character in the recent web-DS storyline look a lot like Comixpress proprietor Logan DeAngelis?
- Frank Frisina, the writer of the poker-themed webcomic Life's A Bluff emailed me that artist Brandon Carr has returned to working on the project.
- Kris Straub's new/old parody (meta-parody?) gamer comic Insert Cartridge isn't bad. It's just not that cutting as parody really. On the other hand a couple of the jokes, despite Kris' insistence that he's trying to mimic the mediocrity of many comics in the genre, are pretty funny. (UPDATE: I didn't mean and I doubt Kris meant to say that the entire gamer comic genre is mediocre. More that there are many mediocre comics in that genre that are merely aping the tropes of it)
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- The Joystiq blog names Fanboys Online as its webcomic of the week.
- Dani Draws has a list of 101 projects an artist can take on between assignments. A lot of them would make good exercises to kickstart creative juices if you're feeling uninspired.
Interview: Shayna Marchese, Creator of Voids
Submitted by Unityflow on November 28, 2006 - 09:14
Adam York from The Flowfield Unity posted this interview he conducted with Shayna Marchese, creator of the webcomic Voids.
