Tuesday, September 11, 2007

ComicMix

ComicMix Phase 2.
I've been going to ComicMix since meeting Glenn Hauman at a wedding earlier this year. Sarah knew him because he was part of a circle of friends that included the bride, who was Sarah's babysitter when she was younger.
ComicMix is expanding from just a comic news site on October 2nd, to become a comic producer, not just a comic news site. They have many long established creators who will be producing comics online for free. Collected trades of those comics will eventually be sold. This model is working for other comic creators, like Howard Taylor's Schlock Mercenary and Phil and Kaja Foglio's Girl Genius, both of whom have new stories serialized online for free that are later collected for print.
What talent, you might ask? Well, to name but a few, and in alphabetical order, we’re talking about Mike Baron, Rick Burchett, Chris Burnham, Michael Davis, Ian Gibson, Dick Giordano, Mike Gold, Stuart Gordon, Mike Grell, Bo Hampton, Glenn Hauman, Marc Hempel, Lovern Kindierski, Linda Lessman, Jay Lynch, Frank McLaughlin, William Messner-Loebs, John Ostrander, Andrew Pepoy, Bob Pinaha, Michael H. Price, Bill Reinhold, Nick Runge, John K. Snyder III, Joe Staton, Martha Thomases, Robert Tinnell, Timothy Truman, Trevor Von Eeden, Mark Evan Walker, Matt Webb, Mark Wheatley, Skip Williamson, Marv Wolfman, and John Workman. And more. You think we’re going to tell you everything?

But we will say this: here are the features we’re working on: Black Ice, Demons of Sherwood, EZ Street, Fashion In Action, Fishhead, Glamours Inc., GrimJack, Jack Johnson, Jon Sable Freelance, Munden’s Bar, Naked Brain, PayDay, The Prowler, Simone & Ajax, and White Viper. All are trademarks of their owners, by the way, so watch your ass or Glenn Hauman will get very angry. If he’s got to “TM” everything in sight, you should respect his loving efforts. And not all of that stuff will be going up on Day One – we’ll be starting with six.

That is a whole lot of experienced talent. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do.

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