Just a bit of interesting news out of the power house that is Blank Label. Will this mean a new talent search to fill the hits void that this will leave? Or will this mean a much less active group?

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Media contact:
Brad Guigar
bguigar@yahoo.com
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THREE CARTOONISTS LEAVE BLANK LABEL TO FORM NEW
HALFPIXEL

Three members of Blank Label Comics are ending their
partnership with Blank Label Comics to form a new
collective, Halfpixel, along with the creator of PvP
(pvponline.com), Scott Kurtz.

Dave Kellett (sheldoncomics.com), Kris Straub
(starslip.com) and Brad Guigar (evil-comic.com) will
become members of the new Halfpixel — previously a hub
for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. The site will
now become a hub for all four artists and the projects
the four of them are collaborating on — such as the
popular Webcartoonist Weekly podcast and the upcoming
“How To Make Webcomics” book being published by Image
Comics.

“The four of us are finding ourselves working on more
and more projects together, and Dave, Kris and I
decided it wouldn’t be fair to try to split our
energies between the two groups,” said Guigar. “We
told our BLC partners about this a few weeks ago, and,
true to BLC form, we’re doing this without the
requisite Webcomics Drama. Those looking for sour
grapes or angry sentiments are going to be
disappointed. We’re all still very much friends and
fans of one another’s work.”

All of the artists will retain control over their
respective creations and Web sites. “In the broadest
sense, the name ‘Halfpixel’ will be what we’ll
organize under any time we do a project together,”
said Kellett. “Things like the podcast, book,
convention appearances, content for the hub site, any
joint animations or second strips we do
together…that sort of thing.  Any time two or more
are gathered together for a project, we’ll probably do
it under the Halfpixel banner.”

“I started the old Halfpixel out of a desire to really
push myself creatively and see if I could come up with
the next big thing” said Straub. “That philosophy
stuck when Halfpixel became me and Scott, and it’ll be
a driver for the four of us now.”

“I think that Webcomic collectives are the new garage
bands,” said Kurtz. “Everyone plays an instrument and
you look for people to develop a sound with. We all
got together and started jamming one a week and
realized, ‘holy crap, guys… this sounds GOOD. We
should take this on the road.’”

The Webcomics Weekly podcast can be found at
halfpixel.com/ww. “How To Make Webcomics” is in the
January issue of Previews magazine (Page 143).

• My daily comic strip: http://www.evil-comic.com
• My weekly sex comic: http://www.courting-disaster.com
• My bi-weekly comic about Philly: http://www.phables.com
• My old comic strip: http://www.GreystoneInn.net
• My cartooning Web-site: http://www.everythingcartooning.com
• My online portfolio: http://www.guigar.com

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