...the newness of this comic, I'd say that's pretty good.  In other news, Scott Kurtz of PvPonline, a prominent webcomic in this business, managed to get himself banned from commenting on The Daily Cartoonist.  This coming after he trolled around in one post and then mocked a cartoonist who just lost his job after 30 years in another.  As I've stated in the past, I think Kurtz is extremely talented...

I'm an artist and cartoonist, and this is a site to help people find me. You can find my website at jedalexander.com . My blog is jedalexander.blogspot.com .

...that I'd planned to do when I launched this new site back in September was to use the space to interview some of the interesting creative people I know. Here we have the first of these, a Q&A with cartoonist Gary Northfield . I first met Gary at the Bristol Comics Festival in 2001, browsing the small press table that was run by Pete Ashton back in his Bugpowder days. I was delighted to discover...

As some of you may know, Gerard Way, the frontman of one of my favorite bands "My Chemical Romance" is also a cartoonist now and the writer of his comic series "The Umbrella Academy". I bought "Apocalypse Suite" as soon as I seen it. The first collection of umbrella academy comics. Now I have found that the first of the next six issues is out. So whenever they get all those together in one I'm...

... I draw with a black pen on white paper (I don't even know how to paint). I'm proud of my drawings and I'm pleased with the way they came out for the most part. But am I an illustrator? Maybe I'm a cartoonist. I'm certainly not sophisticated enough to be a 'graphic novelist' (not least because I haven't to date drawn a graphic novel) [an aside: If you 'look' at pictures and you 'read' books how do...