Wesley Osam grew up and still lives in Iowa. He’s worked in an office for the last decade and draws comics in his spare time.
His website is http://www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/. These comics appear according to an irregular schedule, but are often updated at least once a week. However, the comics themselves are irregular. Some are traditional humor strips with continuing characters. Occasionally these are less funny and more meditative. At other times he draws surreal (and sometimes very strange) single-panel gag cartoons, like this one. Enjoy!
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An engineer by education, Paramjit Singh completed his Bachelors from Manipal Institute of Technology, India, and Masters from the University of Southern California, USA. He worked as a business analyst for 2 years in Chicago before coming back to India to pursue his dreams working as a game designer.
He also worked on a few publications back in college and loves doing cartoons. You can check out his latest comics on his blog The Short Plank.
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Blake Sims has lived his whole life in Southern Kentucky. He currently attends Western Kentucky University and has been known to wear his hair long and reckless.
Sims has self-published his comics since high school. His early books were memorable for their large 8.5″x11″ format. With his latest mini, Rapscallion #5 he’s scaled down the format a bit to the standard, more affordable, quarter fold but hopes to print large again someday.
Expect the next issue of Rapscallion soon, which will be a faux-tabloid style comic. I can’t wait. In the meantime, check out Sims’ blog for more action, adventure and comedy.
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Lauren Barnett is a comic artist, illustrator and graphic designer living and working in Brooklyn NY. She has self-published three mini comics including I’d Sure Like Some Fucking Pancakes, A Story About Fish and Secret Weirdo. She also has a daily comics blog with mostly one-panel gag strips. Her work has been published in the L Magazine’s Comix issue (2008) and she has work on Top Shelf’s Top Shelf 2.0 website. She has an exhibition coming up in October 2010 at Gimme Coffee in Brooklyn, NY, and will soon be interviewed for the web series “Crazy Sexy Geeks.”
Her daily blog can be found at www.melikesyou.blogspot.com. Enjoy!
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John McNamee and Ted Raskol get together three times a week to draw jam comics. The comics are always four panels long, but they alternate who starts each one. What goes on from start to finish is completely improvised from panel to panel. Their strips are posted on the website Digestive Comics.
McNamee’s webcomic Pie updates thrice weekly. He has drawn over 660 strips so far and shows no sign of stopping. He has been published in three issues of Pulse Comic Zine and has self-published two compilations of Pie. He recently lent his drawing skills for Duck Tales from the Crypt in Big Planet’s November newsletter.
Raskol authors Raskol Political Cartoons, which updates daily. He has been published in Pulse Comic Zine and finds that it’s not so hard to draw a daily cartoon, as long as you’re willing to cut all the people you care about out of your life. His political drawings lean to the left of the political spectrum, but have a streak of independence when it comes to the economic issues.
McNamee and Raskol met while publishing daily comic strips at The Cavalier Daily, which is an independent and self-sustaining newspaper published by students at the University of Virginia (both were graduates of the class of 2007). McNamee has had a table at the last two Small Pres Expos, while Raskol visited to mill about for awhile. By next year’s SPX, they plan to publish a compilation of Digestive Comics.
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Nick started his online comic Misinterpreted Complications just over a year ago primarily as a means of keeping himself off the streets and out of trouble. His preferred artistic medium had been painting on canvas or found bits of wood, but he now enjoys the immediacy of the comic form — not to overlook, of course, the readiness of paper and pens for portability.
When he isn’t fabricating nostalgia for a time he never knew, he can either be found getting his hands filthy digging and dreaming in various allotments around Bristol or unnecessarily tinkering with — and otherwise making his way around the city on — a squiggly handle-barred bicycle, all while procrastinating from, or alternatively pretending to do, his post-graduate studies. It is perhaps not a surprise, therefore, that contemplating vaguely introspective comics fits well into Nick’s emerging milieu.
MisComp is updated on a roughly weekly basis. A self-published “best of the first year” is available now, in made-to-order paperback or hardcover. Email him (misinterpretedcomplications@gmail.com) for details.
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Simon M is a boy in a man costume who lives in Bristol, in Britain. Although having drawn and written stories for most of his early life, he put his pens and pencils aside in favor of imagining how one day he would write bedroom pop symphonies for, and on behalf of, all the quiet people. He never did write anything, but did play the same bits of the same song over and over again enough to drive his cohorts, companions, friends and loved ones to distraction. Happily, though, he rediscovered his love of comics, writing and illustration in early 2007, simultaneously learning about self-publication and the world of small-press zines and comics.
Smoo Comics is his semi-autobiographical, self-published comic that comes out as-and-when he can muster the time, patience and friends to help him put it all together. Although issue #1 is now out of print, issue #2 – in which he worries about time and growing old – is due out in December 2009 and will be available at carefully selected shops (i.e. whoever will stock it), by emailing Simon directly, or by visiting his blog for details.
As with any other self-respecting procrastinator, he has one million and one other projects planned including paintings, illustrations, zines and other ephemera. The progress of these, as well as bits of sketchbooks, the odd review and general paraphernalia, can be followed on his blog. He also has a Twitter feed for up to the minute news and announcements.
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Jose-Luis Olivares is a 2nd year student at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
His guest strip is about the creative process. The drawing is done loosely and quickly in a stream-of-consciousness style, which Jose-Luis says is “the kind of comic that gets my mind thinking and hand moving when I’m restless.”
At the moment he’s working on short comics for his personal anthology called Polite Fiction. He just finished Polite Fiction 2, which debuted at Expozine in Montreal. Polite Fiction 1 is available to read and purchase online at www.joseluisolivares.com/blog and Polite Fiction 2 will be available for purchase there soon. He’s also working on a couple of children’s book pitches.
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After making the journal comic series MyLifeComics for about two years, Paul Abbamondi finally took the plunge into fiction.
His webcomic Supertown follows the adventures of two best friends, Will and Kyle, who believe themselves to be their town’s only hope against the many nefarious villains that want to see it crumble. He describes the project as Home Movies meets superheroes meets something else.
Abbamondi is also a speculative fiction short story writer, and has been published in magazines like Apex Digest, Farrago’s Wainscot, and Shimmer, among others.
He’s staying indoors for the rest of 2009, but does hope to make it to SPX and some other cons in 2010.
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Derik A. Badman is a librarian in Philadelphia, PA. He has been blogging at madinkbeard.com since 2004, primarily about comics. His webcomic “Things Change” has been running at the same site since 2006, and pdfs of it are available for free download.
Badman’s comics recently appeared in Abstract Comics (Fantagraphics, 2009). Today on the Cross Hatch, he shares with you all a brief autobiographical vignette. Enjoy!
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Guest Strip | smorean March 19, 2010 | 
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