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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Mark Shainblum Profile & Webcomic
:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/28/2007 12:01:00 AM 
Comics writer Mark Shainblum is profiled in Montreal's The Chronicle and debuts a new webcomic with artist Jeff Alward. According to Bram Eisenthal:
...one of his most challenging projects since the serialized Angloman is his latest, The Haunting of McGrath, a web-based murder mystery that you can read, for free, in weekly Friday installments. Based on an unpublished short story by Shainblum, the continuing tale features art by PEI's Jeff Alward.
"Web comics are huge today," Shainblum told me. "And while I'm pretty sure people won’t pay for content, creators get a lot out of publishing them on the Web at no charge. It helps create a body of work for you, gets you read and therefore gets you known. Also, there are no expenses (other than the minimal annual cost of having the site hosted), whereas print publishing is quite expensive."
Shainblum has always been an excellent writer and the first four pages of his Web tale left me with the impression that he's better than ever. We will have found out by yesterday whether he's got to bring Angloman out of mothballs, or whether the use of apostrophes is a deadly offense under a new regime.Labels: comics writers, webcomics
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