Comics Are Great! 56 – Mark Waid
by dubaym
It’s a spirited talk about the future of comics publishing and storytelling opportunities available in digital comics this time, as I’m joined by comics legend Mark Waid. Using his new project Thrillbent as a starting point, we explore how digital publishing and web culture are challenging us to re-think 20th Century ideas of publishing and distribution. We also have Paul Storrie in studio to help us explore how digital publishing presents some unique storytelling opportunities in comics without discarding what makes comics, well, comics. We’re joined at the end by Eli Neiburger of the Ann Arbor District Library for some thoughts on monetizing a digital comic as well as some great comics recommendations!
Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting them!):
- The drama surrounding Mark Waid’s Thrillbent announcement
- Yves Bigerel’s Digital Comics Manifesto
- Walking Dead
- Scott Kurtz
- R Stevens
- Comics Are Great! 50 – A Tale of Two Cities
- Blind Ferret
- Atomic Robo
- iVerse Library
- Mark Waid’s Harvey Awards Speech
- Louis CK
- Aziz Ansari
- Residual Self Image
- Peter Krause
- Kurt Busiek
- Waid’s Thrillbent comic Luther
- Scott McCloud’s Zot! webcomic
- Responsive Web Design
- Insufferable
- Martin & Lewis
- Terry and the Pirates
- Upton Sinclair’s quote about people’s resistance to change
- Robot Butts (no, really)
- Ruben Bolling’s Inner Hive
- Ryan Estrada
- John Allison’s Subscription Plans
- The Long Form Web Comics Twitter discussion thread
- Deb Aoki
Comics and Book Recommendations:
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