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Hey Friends--

While you're recovering from the debauchery, relax and read this month's UNDERWIRE, "Lose The Balloons". It's about acceptance. And hot air.

Read it here: http://act-i-vate.com/64-16-1.comic

Read all the stories here: http://act-i-vate.com/64-1.comic

And thank the Goddess for all her gifts!

--Jennifer

TWO new page of “Adventures of The Floating Elephant.”

At Activatecomix.com!

Two new pages which end Chapter II:

http://activatecomix.com/23-1-59.comic

Read “Adventures of the Floating Elephant” from the start:
http://activatecomix.com/23-1-1.comic

Chapter 3 will resurface near the end January 2010.

Thanks for reading!

Tim

Today marks the holiday return of STREET CODE, my semi-autobio webcomic at Zuda, featuring the 4pp story "Snow Dope."

If you're new to STREET CODE, please take the time to read season one from last year. Otherwise, veterans of STREET CODE can skip to pages 61-64 and read the latest tale.

http://www.zudacomics.com/street_code

Thank you and enjoy!

--Dino

http://www.nycgraphicnovelists.com/2009/12/graphically-speaking-seths-top-books-of.html


The ACT-I-VATE Primer by Haspiel, Bertozzi, Cavallaro, Fraser, etc.

A handsomely produced anthology by a mixture of top creators and newcomers, all showcasing their creations from the webcomix site in new stories. Just flipping through one can’t help but notice the variety of work and styles contained between it’s well designed covers. If you can’t find something that appeals to you in The ACT-I-VATE Primer, you probably don’t like comics.

Excerpt:

Gibbons:
I must say, aesthetically speaking, all I’ve ever done and all I’ve ever wanted to do is comics. Any kind of painting I’ve done, I’ve had to teach myself as I’ve gone along. My creative thoughts always go toward telling stories and I think, for the future, as you mentioned, there are some really interesting ways of doing this online and it also means now that, as an artist, you can get your work out there at very little cost. So, I find that, like you, a really fascinating path to pursue.

Quitely:
I’ve actually been looking at a few webcomics the past year or so. There’s a few I’ve been following on a site called Act-I-Vate, and Transition X. Cameron Stewart, he’s got a great one too, Dan Goldman and Dean Haspiel have done some lovely work recently. Karl Kerschl’s one I actually just discovered a couple of days ago. I know his work through American superhero comics and he’s really good, he does some great action sequences, blah, blah, blah… and then I saw the stuff that he was doing in his own webcomic and it’s just phenomenal. It’s not to take away from what he does professionally ­ up until recently, that’s all I had seen and I had a very high opinion of his work ­ quite apart from what we’re saying about aesthetics, the ease and cheapness with which people can actually put out their own material means that a lot of people are putting out work that’s quite personal ­ whether it’s their own world view or characters that they always draw in their sketchbooks even though they didn’t have an outlet for them before or autobiographical stuff. It’s kind of like the best of what I like about small press and self-publishing. That feeling that you’re actually reading somebody’s diary: You feel a real contact that I don’t usually feel in mainstream comics. So, I think that’s really exciting too.


Read the entire Dave Gibbons/Frank Quitely interview here: http://www.tcj.com/?p=1410&page=1