Born and raised and now back in Bayonne, New Jersey, Michael Lapinski lived in Brooklyn for the last 10 years and worked as a digital designer and painter in the NYC animation industry on such notable programs as Disney’s “Doug,” “Blues Clues” and “Team UmiZoomi” for Nick Jr., and 4Kids’ “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” A […]
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Interviewed: OLIVIA PELÁEZ
Olivia Pelaez is a comic book artist/illustrator, resident of New Jersey. When not drawing, she loves to cook, knit, crochet, and review comics via her podcast, The Verbal Mosh (available through iTunes). Her most recent work is a short three page comic completed for the upcoming Gothology Vol. 3: Theatre of Tragedy anthology. In 2010, […]
Interviewed: JUSTIN PETERSON
Justin Peterson and Lee Bretschneider were in a booth together at the MoCCA Festival, so I’m presenting them as a couple here too. — Tell us a little about yourself Hey, I’m Justin Peterson, creator, writer and illustrator of the graphic novel series VERY NEAR MINT. I’m based in the Tampa Bay area of Florida! I […]
Interviewed: LEE BRETSCHNEIDER
Lee Bretschneider and Justin Peterson were in a booth together at the MoCCA Festival, so I’m presenting them as a couple here too. — Tell us a little about yourself I grew up in Cape Coral, Fl, but currently reside in Tallahassee, FL. I started in comics by writing and drawing the now-defunct webcomic Wheelchair Romeo. […]
Interviewed: RICK PARKER
At the MoCCA Festival in New York, I met a lot of great artist, some aspiring talents and some well-known professionals. During the next months, I’ll be posting little interviews featuring some of the people I talked to. The first one is Rick Parker of “Beavis and Butthead” fame. ——— Rick Parker is a fine […]
Recommended: SWEDISH COMICS
I visited fellow artists in Malmö today. Though only a half-hour train ride away, Malmö is actually in Sweden. Yes, it’s another country. No, Denmark is not the capital of Sweden, that’s Ikea. I hooked up with Niklas Asker, creator of “Top Shelf” published graphic novel “Second Thoughts” and exile Dane Allan Haverholm in their working space at […]