Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

- I have to admit that I’ve never understood the allure of zombies, but I have to admit there is one for a lot of people. A number of comic sites have been sprinkling the blogosphere, and there’s some fine art to be found there as well as some interesting approaches to laying out a comic page.

– A friend of mine, who’s worked in my studio for years, Jason McDonald has built a site around a comic that he’s creating and unveiling: one page each week. Like all of Jason’s art, the imagery is imaginative and clever. He’s focussing on the day-to-day routine of a teenage zombie, tedium and all included. It’s the Adams Family wired to feel more at home in the 50′s than the original. Leave It To Beaver, and Beaver is a girl and a zombie.

My Living Dead Girl includes lots more than the strip. There’s a blog, GAK News, giving info about the strip’s development, including lots of art, photo reference com- parisons to the art, and even a store to buy lots of things.

Jason also has another site featuring his non-zombie artwork: jasonmcdonaldesign.com

(By the way, I’m long overdue to post a focus on Jason’s work for my studio. He’s shaped many a film for me with some exciting, humorous and daring Art Direction.)

- Zombies? is a webcomic site by Eric Maziade, and it’s very different from Jason’s strip. It, too, is developing on line as Eric writes the strip, and the site/blog offers writing as well. However, the link list leads you to some other zombie strips.

Eric Maziade also two other sites:
One called In The Maze which seems to have more of a technological bent discussing the technical aspects of hardware and the internet. The site also has a number of good links including other non-zombie webcomics.
The other called Maze’s Lair features a lot of Eric’s artwork.

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