Featured Artists

Ed Piskor's recently finished the online version of his 400+ page graphic novel, Wizzywig, which will soon be given the collected treatment by Top Shelf. Wizzywig is the story of Kevin Phenicle, aka "Boingthump," a phone phreaker/hacker during the early days of high-tech computing who is sort of a pastiche of several real-life individuals.
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Tim Pennington, a really creative artist with whom we spoke a while ago, recently had a career moment, of sorts. A painting of his was pulled from the walls of Blackbird Espresso in Topeka, KS. Tim opened up about this experience, and what else he's been up to since we last spoke.
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Leslie Stein took advantage of a temporary artist's block to chat about her recently published book from Fantagraphics, 'Eye of the Majestic Creature.'
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Dan Johnson's The Perplexing Problem of the Porcelain Bandits is a compelling mystery unmistakably set in San Francisco. As the business of publishing itself has proven rather "perplexing" lately, we sought Dan's opinions not only on the creative process, but on the publishing process in the e-book age.
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One of the benefits of supporting independent publishing is you can't help but feel closer to the creator and the creative process. This is only partially encapsulated by the nice hand-written thank you note I received from François Vigneault with purchase of his new "Elf World" anthology series.
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Two fantastic Chicago-based shows showed how cool comics done under duress can turn out, as Jon Westhoff waxes poetic about the awesomeness of Jeffrey Brown's 1-Hour comic and Ryan Browne's 24-hour comic.
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'Subnormality' is one of my favorite webcomics. Winston Rowntree, the pseudonymous creator of Subnormality, chatted with us about his creation.
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'Gingerbread Girl' is an outstanding comic from Top Shelf that's being revealed online in chunks before arriving in stores this May. Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover took some time to talk about their creation.
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Scott Anderson is not only a heck of an artist, he's a full-time faculty member at Westmont College's art department. He has a background in commercial art, and still takes on plenty of commissioned work. Anderson indulged our questions concerning maintaining your artistic sensibility when working commercially, and more.
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Emi Lenox's EMITOWN (www.emitown.com) is a sketch diary in which she drew pages daily, taken from her life for the whole world to see. A printed version of EmiTown--a huge 400 pager from Image Comics--hits stores in November. Emi was gracious enough to talk with us about it.
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