Xaviar Xerexes

http://altbrand.com

http://xaviarxerexes.com

Hi, I'm known on the internets as Xaviar Xerexes. I'm the publisher, editor and all-around web monkey for Comixpedia. I alternate between thinking this is a great use of time I could use to sleep and wanting to smash my server box with a large hammer.

Needless to say I like webcomics. Webcomics brought me back to comics in a way comic books and comic strips never had me in childhood. At Comixpedia, we try to foster intelligent, fun discussion about webcomics as a medium and individual webcomics.

But this is supposed to be a bio right? My "history" in webcomics begins when I started posting comics originally published in my law school's newspaper on a geocities site. That was in 1996. That comic was called where the hell are the singing cats? and was sort of topical. It was where I first came up with my favorite character of my own creation, grizzled, disillusioned reporter with a heart of gold and a liver of vodka - Tom Banner.

Then in 1999 I discovered Sluggy Freelance and realized that I wanted to do a serial story that was open ended enough to do all kinds of things in one webcomic.

But instead I started Super Jr which was about a superhero and... well I'm not sure what else it was really about. It was fun to try and recreate a character I had invented at about age 10.

Next I got one of the first Keenspace accounts and came up with a strip called Burnt Dog Radio which was an attempt to take elements of where the hell are the singing cats? and jam it into a webcomic with an ongoing story. I did that one around 2001-2002. I still like parts of that although I'm not sure if I have it online right now.

I also got hooked up with several other great creators and fun dudes in one of the first small webcomic creator collectives called Altbrand. I recently resurrected the Altbrand website and a lot of the archived webcomics are there and available again. I'm also posting sketches and art there now - I'm kind of working out whether or not I really want to do a webcomic again or whether I just like to draw... :)

Altbrand did fizzle out around late 2002 - I still think the lot of us are friends and I do email with them but I think we ran out of things we wanted to do as a group.

While in Altbrand though I started a webcomic called Life in Four Panels which was largely fictional - it was a story about a guy and a girl and was loosely based on some stuff I remembered from college and after college. The art on it was purposely loose so I could do it five times a week. It's not up right now but I hope to put it back online again soon.

Other than webcomics I do have another completely-different job that pays my bills and I generally enjoy. I also have a wife (Mrs. X) and two girls (Lil X1 and X2) and a dog named Buddy.

Beyond webcomics, I'm also fascinated with technology and computers, and soccer (football or futbol to the rest of the non-U.S. world).

Jesse Stanchak

http://www.theparadoxcomic.com/

http://belier.wordpress.com/

Evan Keeling

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/dcconspiracy/

http://www.dcconspiracy.com

Evan Keeling was born on a hill in Washington DC. He drew a bear (pronounced bar) when he was only three. After extensive schooling in the graphical arts Evan decided to give all that up for the sweet siren song of comics. He toils by day for the Smithsonian, but at night he makes passionate love to his drawing table. His current projects are: Death by Sexy, flyer comic about the adventures of a two man rock n' roll force traveling through space; Ataxia Overdrive, a web comic about the adventures of three young thieves and a pair of fantastic shoes, on the run from the Rome-Botic Army; League of Lincoln, 44 page giant sized special annual #1 all super, all Lincoln, all the time. (written by Matt Dembicki and inked by Jacob Warrenfeltz)