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Daniel Merlin Goodbrey interview

Rick — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:06:14 +0000

Here is the link from Comics Reporter.

I like DMG’s work, even though I have to be honest and say that I’d never heard of him before I read this interview. However, after digging through his blog E-merl.com, he does some great stuff. I’m especially enjoying Necessary Monsters right now.

The weird thing is, thinking about it, I must have actually met Daniel in person once.

If he was at the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing in 2006 (he is listed as one of the Exhibitors for that year), then I probably did. I went to every table and talked to everyone there that year. In particular, I probably annoyed John Allison with my extensive ignorance of yacht rock but he was still nice enough to give me a button that says, “It is the moon.”

NIN, Radiohead, and Diesel Sweeties

Rick — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:51:44 +0000

To celebrate Clango’s 8th birthday, R Stevens is releasing his entire archive of Diesel Sweeties as a 10-volume set of PDFs, under the Creative Commons license.

By my calculations, DS is going to hit 2000 comics in a little under two months. April is Clango’s 8th birthday. I’d like to celebrate by releasing the entire webcomic archive for free in ten volumes. It worked for Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead- not bad company to try and keep!

1 per week for 10 weeks, starting Wednesday, 12th of March. Details are here.

I found out via BoingBoing.net, even though Diesel Sweeties is on my daily webcomics reading list.

State of the art(ist)

Rick — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:45:39 +0000

I’ve just about finished tweaking this comicpress theme. It’s not exactly how I want it yet, but it’s G.E.F.G.W., as they say. I’m sure there are a few errors, and I am not 100% convinced that I like the color scheme… I suppose it will get a tweak or two when I get chances.

The script-writing is coming along. I’ve written and revised the first 7 pages to the point that I am satisfied with them and am not looking back. Now, it just remains to lay them out on the paper and see just how horribly wrong I’ve been about how much dialogue and action my own meager skills can actually communicate on the page. I’ve got dialogue for the next 2 pages (which are, in fact, almost entirely dialogue), but I am not sure that I should interject 2 pages of pure dialogue at this point in the story. I think I will trim it down.

Having just read the first four parts of Warren Ellis’ Freakangels, I was struck with how little dialogue there actually is in that comic… I suppose it’s the “less is more” concept.

I’m going to try and strike a balance, I think. I am sure it will be crap, but oh well.

Regarding Freakangels, it’s entertaining but not much has happened yet. The first four parts so far, released once a week, have mostly been setting up some background and introducing a few characters, and not much else. Of course, because it’s Warren Ellis, there are a lot of eyes on it. I am not particularly familiar with his style, so maybe this is par for the course. I mostly read his blog, rather than his comics.