Kevin Colden talks to Brian Heater over on the Daily Crosshatch about his fine webcomic series Fishtown, which has been running on the excellent webcomics collective Act-I-Vate. Kevin talks about trying to get Fishtown out to the reading public, traipsing round various publishers, approaching the Xeric Grant foundation and then talking to Dan Goldman and Dean Haspiel about serialising it on Act-I-Vate, which ironically got him a good audience for the story but meant that he was now ineligible for the Xeric the Foundation had decided to award him. However, it looks like it has all turned out well in the end as Kevin reveals that he has just completed a deal with IDW to publish the collected Fishtown next winter. It’s an interesting series looking into people, the motivations that move them through life and, well, death and murder; I think it will get itself a new audience in print form and I have to say it gives me a nice American indy-movie vibe in places, so I could see it adapting well to a small-budget independent movie.
(panels from part 1 of Fishtown, (c) Kevin Colden)
Tue, Jan 29, 2008
Comics and cartoons, Interviews