Willie Hewes moves from webcomics to print with this new comic, focusing on jobs, dealing with them, and some mad antics involving a slight fantasy background.
A few things to report since last time! Firstly there will be a few new reviews coming up in the next week or so, including Hunter #2, The Worm and more. Also expect some announcement soon regarding the IndieReview Creator Panel, which may be taking place in the near future.
- Jas Wilson's Smuggling Vacation has his the printers, and you can start reading the comic already on the website, it's really looking great.
- Ben Powis has released a new book, "Where Grows The Bitter Herb", a 34-page full colour beautiful comic. It also fixes the problem many people had with Ben's first printed comic, in that it was a large size. Here Ben has reduced it to a more compact A5.
- Webcomics favourite Willie Hewes has set-up a new publisher, ITCH. They already have a few titles out that look very promising, and Willie's background in successful web comics shows that ITCH may prove itself to be one to watch.
This second mini-interview is with creator Francesca Cassavetti, again interviewed by David Baillie.
Hello Francesca, hope you're well! We've met on a number of fun-filled occasions in the last few months, and I've devoured your entire comics oeuvre, but how would you introduce yourself and your work to someone at NoBarCodes next Saturday in Camden Lock Market who has never heard of you before?
I grew up in France avidly reading Tintin, Asterix, Spirou, Pilote etc.. so my influences are mostly European ( although New Yorker magazines and Posy Simmonds are somewhere in the mix ). My comics are mostly based around my experiences. Coming across Robert Crumb's, and L'Association's, output made me realise that autobiography could be a viable form and that other people's lives can touch a chord even if they are not identical to our own (Satrapi, Pekar, Sacco, the list is endless).
My opus about childbirth seems to speak to people, and my latest, Party Pieces dealt with the punk ethic among other stuff.
Because this upcoming weekend holds the London underground Comics mini-con, No Barcodes, David Baillie has been conducting a few short interviews with some of the creators you can find if you pop down this weekend (for more info see the link at the end of the interview). This first one is with Ben Powis, a good friend of the website. Hope you enjoy.
Hi Ben, hope you're well! We haven't met, but I've read and admired your work, and can't wait to say hello. How would you introduce yourself and your work to someone at NoBarCodes next Saturday in Camden Lock Market who has never heard of you before?
Hi, I am very well thanks and really looking forward to next weekend! For an intro how about...
'Hello my name is Ben and I like to draw pictures' - that sums me up pretty well, even if it does sound like I'm about to host a cheesy gameshow!
Webcomic Mole: So, to start where it all began, were you always into comics (and drawing comics) from a young age, or did the comics interest start later?
Paul Duffield: I've always been into comics, and drawn from a very early age (I can't even remember not drawing), but comics was just one of the many things that I tried when I was little. I don't think my real interest in them began until I was about 13, and I discovered first anime, then manga through a friend. From then I constantly tried to write and draw my own stories in various forms, but it all came together properly in College, where I met Kate Brown who introduced me to online comics and drew her own. [Mole Note: Kate Brown was the artist for SelfMadeHero’s Manga Shakespeare ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’]
My first thought was ‘Whoah, finally!’
I was reading the Saturday edition of the Times and was skimming the books section when I noticed in the ‘coming next week’ bit a reference to a gentleman by the name of David Fickling. The only reason this jumped out of the page for me was because Mr. Fickling, in the teaser is credited with a forthcoming launch of a new and original British comic strip weekly. Yeah, I know, I was flabbergasted too. Not the kind of information that I thought I was ever likely to come across.
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