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21:39 / 01.07.07

Hey all,

Transmission-X is a new online webcomics anthology by a group of Toronto cartoonists, including myself, Karl Kerschl (Superman, Flash, Teen Titans), Ramon Perez (Butternut Squash) and Andy B. We've launched the site with 5 strips currently online, and several more being rolled out over the coming months. Each strip will update on a different day of the week so there should be new content every day, free of charge!

Point your browsers to Transmission-X and let us know what you think!

18:53 / 02.07.07

Cool - I dig Cam's stuff and I dig Kerschl's stuff as well!

00:17 / 03.07.07

ok, I really dig the art style of THE PORT.

The Abominable looks terrific (and looks NOTHING like Kerschl's superhero work at all), but is the title really "the Abominable Charles Whatever The Last Name is"? Are we to understand that the yeti-type thing has a regular person's name?

Sin Titulo: Very cool departure in terms of art style, Cameron. Reminds me of how Stuart Immonen switches up his style often (and radically). Looking forward to seeing where this develops.

00:21 / 03.07.07

oh wait, Ragni AND Abominable are both by Kerschl??!! It really looks like two completely different artists.... Ragni looks like the work of some Italian artist who we've never heard of before -- striking linework and very moody (in a good way).

07:44 / 03.07.07

Abominable is truely beautiful - great looking, very sweet. Going to need some more chapters before I write more though.

19:44 / 18.07.07

More Abominable Charles Christopher up on the site now, as well as updates to all the current strips...

01:20 / 19.07.07

Loving the Abominable C.C. The hairy dude is so simple. He walks about, hides from the rain and looks for food. When he talks, it's with his stomach. And, yet, the mystery surrounding him is complex. Who is he? Why does he have a regular person name (did he used to be a regular dude?)? Do the animals in his world speak, or can only he understand them? Why is he so hirsute? And is honey his favouritest of favourite treats? That bee was pretty patient, frankly.

I like how this series might just be about what yetis get up to, much like how Caraboy was about a two-legged reindeer taking naps between jamming with a bird and punching 5D squid.

Anyway, more of Charles being a snowman and doing simple snowman things.

"No"

"Noooooooo"

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

09:54 / 19.07.07

I'm loving ALL of this, and listening to Ragni's music as I type. Which is also great!

01:59 / 21.07.07

all this stuff fucking rocks. brilliant. can't wait to see more. makes me jealous that i'm not involved.

02:18 / 21.07.07

Thanks JHW! That's super flattering.

You know, if you really wanted, you COULD be involved...

03:14 / 22.07.07

thanks for the offer cameron but unfortunately i barely have a life now with trying to meet all my current company obligations. however i will take a raincheck just in case for down the road. are you going to be in SD this next week? if so come by my booth to say hello.

03:30 / 22.07.07

Yep, I'll be there, I'll find you. I sent you a private message here on Barbelith (top of the screen) have a read of it and let me know what you think...

15:23 / 23.07.07

Digging Charles Christopher as well, that loveable abominable guy.

17:19 / 23.07.07

Jesus Cam. Sin Titulo's creeping me out.

21:33 / 23.07.07

Precisely the desired effect.

A little while ago in the thread about comics inspired by David Lynch, I mentioned I was working on something in that vein. Sin Titulo is it.

Hope you're enjoying it despite the creeps...

21:46 / 23.07.07

Well, I want to feel bad for the protagonist, but I suspect he's an asshole. I worry for your health Cam to be imagining fellows like the orderly.

04:11 / 14.08.07

Just a quick bump to let everyone know that a new strip, Ramon Perez' beautifully-drawn Kukuburi, has made its debut on Transmission-X.

19:44 / 21.08.07

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 21, 2007

WEBCOMICS COLLECTIVE TRANSMISSION-X EXPANDS PROGRAMMING

Toronto-based webcomics group Transmission-X (http://www.transmission-x.com) has added four new ongoing comics to its daily schedule. In addition to the five comics that launched the site – Karl Kerschl’s Ragni: The North Sea Epoch and The Abominable Charles Christopher, Andy B’s Raising Hell, Scott Hepburn’s The Port and Cameron Stewart’s Sin Titulo - Transmission-X is now proud to announce the debut of Ramón Pérez’s Kukuburi, Arthur Dela Cruz’s Kissing Chaos: Til I Die, Brian McLachlan’s The Princess Planet, and Michael Cho’s Papercut.

Kukuburi, written and illustrated by Ramón Pérez, is the story of a motorcycle courier plucked from her mundane existence and thrust into a bizarre, dreamlike world where anything can (and does) happen. Perez is the co-creator and illustrator of the popular webcomic Butternutsquash, and has illustrated comics and role-playing games from publishers such as DC Comics and Palladium Press.

Kissing Chaos: Til I Die, written and illustrated by Arthur Dela Cruz, is the latest, all-new installment of his Eisner Award-nominated series about doomed romance, originally published by Oni Press.

The Princess Planet, by Brian McLachlan, is the long-running fantasy-humour strip appearing at www.theprincessplanet.com. McLachlan is a writer and cartoonist whose work has appeared in Owl Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Nickelodeon Magazine.

Papercut, by Michael Cho, is an ongoing anthology of short stories by the acclaimed illustrator, whose work has appeared in dozens of magazines and children’s books. Papercut will update on the 15th of every month with a complete, original story.

Also making its debut at last weekend’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival were the first installments of TXTV, a weekly video podcast filmed and edited by Brenden Fletcher that features a behind-the-scenes look at the life and work of all the Transmission-X creators. TXTV will be available for weekly download beginning in September.

Transmission-X is found on the web at http://www.transmission-x.com and is updated daily with free, original content. Media enquiries can be sent to signal@transmission-x.com.

16:30 / 27.08.07

TX-TV is coming!

Trailer

More information at The TXTV YouTube Channel.

18:40 / 27.08.07

Sin Titulo? Por que?

18:50 / 27.08.07

I don't speak Spanish.

I saw it on a painting years ago, liked the look of the words, and wrote it down. It means "untitled" and I decided to use it as the title of my strip before I really even knew what my story was about.

02:00 / 28.08.07

Are you advance plotted enough to know if it's brought into the story at all?

("Sin" means "without" in Spanish. Which can be an interesting pun, sometimes.)

I love the dude's hair, and the story is unfolding a lot like some screenplays by a friend of mine. (If you ever saw Betty Woo's "Duct and Cover" short, he did the narration.)

04:02 / 28.08.07

>>>Are you advance plotted enough to know if it's brought into the story at all? <<<

Save any other ideas that might strike as I write, I'm fairly sure where it will turn up in the story. But it won't be for a long while yet.

Glad you're reading, please continue to do so! Thanks!

16:48 / 16.09.07

It's Sunday and that means a new installment of my webcomic Sin Titulo is online now at Transmission-X!

Click below to start reading:

18:26 / 16.09.07

I saving a load up, Cam, but thanks for the update.

21:00 / 06.10.07

TX:TV is now broadcasting weekly and you can see the first two installments at the TX YouTube Channel.

This week's installment features me talking about my strip Sin Titulo, and you can watch it here.

uncle retrospective

11:21 / 07.10.07

I'm loving Sin Titulo, I'm getting a really creepy David Lynch feeling off it and that's high praise indeed!

11:50 / 07.10.07

Yeah, really enjoying it. One of my favourite comics of the moment in fact.

Have you ever tried to land a writing gig with either of the big 2?

12:45 / 07.10.07

Hey thanks guys, I'm really glad you're enjoying it! This is my first real writing attempt so I'm still trying to hone my skills, but I'm happy to know that you think it's strong enough to go pro. Eventually I would like to do more writing and am hoping that I can convince someone to pay me to do it...

14:54 / 08.10.07

I've been following Sin Titulo since the start of this thread and I look forward to it each and every week. It's a slow-burning joy Cam. Firstly I love your art, which is boiled down to the essentials of your style without losing any character or nuance. Bloody marvelous use of spot colour.

What I'm more impressed with is the pacing of it though, particularly after reading this week's page. There's just enough information and progression every week to keep me hooked in, even if not a lot has really happened narratively that week. It's the perfect wee webcomic in my opinion, and theres a lovely sense of creeping unease about the whole affair.

Can I ask you how long you're projecting it runs for? And also how long it takes you all in all to do each week's page? I'm guessing by the use of the pared-down style and spot colouring, it's specifically something you can do in the spare hours between your bigger jobs. The kind of thing you can do just for yourself.

Top work!

18:03 / 08.10.07

Thanks iamus! Very much appreciated, as are the comments from everyone.

I don't have a specific length planned for Sin Titulo - I do have a structure worked out in my head but there's also a fair amount of room for improvisation and change, so I'm not sure what the final pagecount will be. It's really only just getting started though, so it should run for a while yet.

Each page takes me about 4-5 hours on average, I do *very* rough scribble layouts in Photoshop with a tablet, then write the final dialogue from my notes as I'm doing the lettering. I go directly to the ink stage and try to draw loosely and quickly, and not bother myself with trying to make "pretty" drawings or correct errors (unless they're really particularly bad). I'm trying to keep it as pure as possible, from my head to the page, and part of that is doing it as quickly as I can. All the aesthetic choices, from the pared-down drawing to the single colour palette to the fixed 8-panel grid, were all chosen so that I could draw the strip as quickly as possible, to fit it in between all the other work I have!

17:28 / 01.01.08

I will say this: I really also dig Karl Kerschl's work and am so looking forward to the upcoming Teen Titans: Year One mini illustrated by Karl. Just for the art alone - even if the story sucks, I'm buying it for the art. Seriously.

Whenever Kerschl does a COUNTDOWN cover or piece of DC promo art, I jump with joy. (But I still don't buy COUNTDOWN, ever - the first two issues were enough for me to pay money for. Since then, I just keep up with what's happening in the book and it hasn't persuaded me to ever pay for it again)

anyway, yay Karl!

02:50 / 02.01.08

Teen Titans Year One starts this week, and it's truly something spectacular. I've seen the first three issues and I think it's one of the best things DC has published in ages.

14:07 / 07.01.08

Back from the short holiday break! This week Alex faces the most uncomfortable experience yet - the ride home.

Click below to start from the beginning or click on "Newest Page" at the link to go to this week's strip:

15:41 / 08.01.08

He just forgets about it and gets on with his life now, surely.

This is good stuff, Cam. I loved the rising creepiness of the phone room but the general world building/scene setting is aces.

Charles Christopher continues to rock the forest also.

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