The Halcyon Years was a series of short infinite canvas comics, some of which included early experiments with interactive elements. This installment was a typical vertical scroller, but it was constructed in reverse like the previous HY installment “Go Figure”. I came across some lovely photos at abandoned-places.com and started to use Poser to constructs scenes …
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The Halcyon Years was a series of short infinite canvas comics, some of which included early experiments with interactive elements. This particular episode was a straight forward comic, though it was produced backwards. I began by drawing random pictures of clowns, then created a narrative structure to tie the images together. It’s a method I’ve …
For a time I was involved in writing for and publishing The Webcomics Examiner, a webcomic review site dedicated to long-form webcomics and hypercomics. For some reason, it’s publication seemed to be somewhat divisive at the time. If memory serves, there was some balking regarding “serious criticism” of webcomics. Seems pretty funny now, given the niche nature of …
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This comic was first published sometime at the end of 2001. It gained some popularity at the time it was published and was the most ambitious hypercomic I had attempted. It’s an Infinite Canvas style scrolling narration with embedded interactive flash files that add depth to the narrative. The horizontal section of the comic features …
George W. Bush’s Iraq war began in March of 2003, and this comic was published some time in April. Remember, this was long before Obama, long before all the hope and change stuff. Long before political quotes were pasted on a stoic image of Thomas Jefferson and passed around on Facebook as indictment of the …
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