ISSUE 4 SUMMER 2020 FREE! CELEBRATING THE COMICS, CARTOONS AND CREATORS OF CENTRAL OHIO COVER ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN CANINI CONTRIBUTORS AARON ANDREWS JUAN ARGIL thatjuanartist.com COLUMBUSSCRIBBLER.COM Cover Illustration by Brian Canini instagram.com/briancanini GREG BALDRIDGE BRENT BOWMAN teechcartoon.tumblr.com facebook/The-Art-of-Brent-Bowman CONTENTS PAGE 1 MASKS AREN’T JUST FOR SUPERHEROES by Jack Wallace & Brian Canini PAGE 2 TEN QUESTIONS WITH VICTOR DANDRIDGE PAGE 3 FINE YOUNG FOLKS by James F. Thomas KHAILA CARR BOB CORBY khailacarr.com backporchcomics.com PAGE 4 DAILY LIVES OF AMERICAN PIGEONS EPISODE #202 by Jackalyn Fleming PAGE 5 COMMENT WARS by Juan Argil PAGE 6 THE CITY by Bob Corby PAGE 7 FURY IN THE SKIES - A BRIEF HISTORY OF TARPÉ MILLS AND MISS FURY by Brian Canini KEITH CRETIN MICHAEL FEHSKENS PAGE 8 WEST 8TH AVENUE By Khaila Carr wgcomics.com michaelfehskens.com PAGE 9 HOW TO MAKE A MINI-COMIC By Steve Steiner DIEDO by Greg Baldridge PAGE 10 & 11 TREVOR TRIAD IS GEOMETRIC JUSTICE by Steve Steiner PAGE 12 NOT SO FUNNIES - TALES OF THE COMIC PEEPS by Keith Cretin & Michael Neno JACKALYN FLEMING CANADA KECK PAGE 13 ROYAL FLUSHED by Tom Williams behance.net/jackalynfleming facebook/rumineracomics PAGE 14 & 15 MEET THE PEOPLE OF COLUMBUS: CATIE RANDAZZO AND MATTHEW HEAGGANS By Jack Wallace, Brent Bowman, and Chris Allen PAGE 16 COMIC STORE PROFILE - THE LAUGHING OGRE KID’S KORNER by Sofia W. PAGE 17 KID STARFISH by Brian Canini MICHAEL NENO JAMES F. THOMAS PAGE 18 COMIC REVIEWS by Derek Baxter nenoworld.com instagram/jamesfthomas CROCODILE MAN MEETS PETRA LE PARISIAN PLATYPUS by Aaron Andrews PAGE 19 TEN QUESTIONS (CONTINUED) UPCOMING EVENTS PAGE 20 THE FUNNIES by Derek Baxter, Brian Canini, Canada Keck, Michael Fehskens, Steve Steiner, and Thad Woodman INSIDE BACK COVER THANK YOU FOR YOUR TOM WILLIAMS THAD WOODMAN CONTINUED SUPPORT by Brian Canini drawrobotdesigns.com THE MINDS BEHIND THE COLUMBUS SCRIBBLER Are you a comic creator living in the central Ohio area? We’d love to see your work! Check out our We’d like to acknowledge the passing Submission Guidelines at columbusscribbler.com of Tom Spurgeon, Executive Director of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC). THANK YOU TO OUR ADVERTISERS! We are incredibly grateful and humbled for the support Tom supplied the Scribbler Cartoon Nix Comics Crossroads Columbus but, even more than that, we’re grateful PVD Cast for Tom’s steadfast support of comics. JM Consulting Small Press & Kafe Kerouac Alternative Comics Expo The views and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The Columbus Scribbler. 1 e at the Columbus Scribbler would like to take this opportunity some cases, permanent closures. The closing of libraries cut off access to to thank all of the essential workers that are continuing to work materials we often take for granted. selflessly for others. We’ve all been affected by the Coronavirus in Here’s the good news. Things are getting better. Comic shops are adding W 1 some form or another. The US has lost a staggering 100,000 people due safety protocols to help you shop safely. Libraries have started allowing pick to the virus. Over 30 million people2 have filed unemployment claims. Many up at specific locations. Creators are displaying their craft through tutorials on people have risked their lives to maintain essential services to keep us fed and Youtube. YOU now have more time on your hands than you know what to do to keep us healthy. The rest of us have been cooped up in our homes waiting with. This is a perfect opportunity for you to watch a panel from the comfort of for some sense of normalcy for what feels like a decade. Summer expectations your home. A chance to pick up your first graphic novel from the comic shops have been extinguished due to the cancellation of traditional annual events that desperately need your support. A perfect time to start supporting all the throughout the country. artists in your community by backing their Kickstarter or Patreon account. An This virus has even affected our entertainment. Sporting events have all been excuse to take a break from your hectic life, pick up a put on hold. Late-night talk shows and even our news broadcasts have started pencil and, perhaps, scribble. taking place from inside people’s homes. Comics are no different. Our conventions have moved online. San Diego Comic-Con has been We miss you. We hope you’re safe. We hope canceled for the first time in its fifty-year history. Ohio based Gem City Comics you’re reading comics. Expo, Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo (S.P.A.C.E), and Cartoons Crossroads Columbus (CXC) have all moved to an online format, holding Jack Wallace panels via video chat. This strikes a tremendous blow to both the organizers The Columbus and the independent creators whose income is made almost entirely through Scribbler, LLC these events. Comic shops are also working through an equally challenging time just to stay afloat. Like most small businesses, the governor’s order to temporarily close non-essential businesses has led to layoffs and, in 1CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov 2NPR, https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/30/848021681 /a-staggering-toll-30-million-have-filed-for-unemployment ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRIAN CANINI ILLUSTRATIONS 2 10 QUESTIONS WITH VICTOR DANDRIDGE Victor Dandridge Jr. created Vantage:Inhouse Productions in 2011. Since then, he’s created a list of thought provoking and engaging properties including “The Samaritan,” “Origins Unknown,” “The Trouble w/Love,” as well as the novella series, “8 Mins.” and the writer for the all ages friendly “Wonder Care Presents: The Kinder Guardians.” Vantage:Inhouse Productions is also aiming to educate, encourage, and inspire future creators through its U Cre-8 Comics brand, an education-based line of products and programming designed to bridge comics with classroom fundamentals. As if that wasn’t enough, Victor freelances as host/moderator at comic and pop-culture conventions meeting celebrities of all varieties. He also hosts a youtube channel where he critiques comics with Comic Town Owner, Ryan Seymore, called “Black, White, and Read All Over.” Did we mention he also has a fiancé and five kids? 1. What inspired you to get into making grows. I’ve said for a while that kids who MAKE comics in the first place? comics, will read comics, and kids who read comics, can read ANYTHING! I might have one of the most comic-booky Ironically, I co-created Wonder Care Presents: origin stories of all time. For anyone who has The Kinder Guardians BECAUSE of the U Cre-8 ever caught my U Cre-8 Comics presentations, Comics line. Having launched three years prior, you know I usually start by admitting that I didn’t the only comics in my library were all self-rated like to read as a kid. The “Death of Superman” for teen audiences or higher, so if schools wanted series changed all that with the support of my samples of my work, I could only provide titles mom, who worked at City Center Mall (c.1989 - that weren’t really age-appropriate. Having the c.2009), picking up books for me from the 5th Kinder Guardians gave me something all-ages floor of Lazarus. friendly that not only was acceptable to share, What I don’t go into, is that with my new but also showed my personal ideas for school interest in comics, I learned that my father was a behaviors and dynamics! long-time comic fan, and that three of my uncles could draw. With something we all could get 3. What do you hope that children are able into, it kind of reinvigorated my relationship with to achieve using the U Cre-8 Comics? the men on my father’s side of the family, most When first created, I would’ve said an notably, my uncle Mark Rossi Dandridge. He appreciation for comics. But it’s now grown to be was incredibly encouraging for me to explore, a LOT deeper. What I truly hope kids get out of not only the comic medium, but its potential as a it, is an understanding that turning your passion career. into your profession can be a sustaining venture. I In 1993, barely a year after I started reading make entrepreneurship a talking point in all of my comics, daring to dabble in creating my own presentations now, putting the focus on finding characters and stories, my uncle was killed something you love and truly dedicating yourself — murdered, by three teens that lived in his to it. So, if kids walk away hearing my love and neighborhood. passion for comics, and they apply it to whatever Devastated by his death, and at only 10 years they like to do for fun, then I would say that it’s old, I made vow by candlelight, promising that an overwhelming success. in his honor, I would make a name for myself in the comic book industry. And fast forward a few 4. You and Ryan have over 300 episodes decades and here I am the “Hardest Working critiquing comics. What lessons have you Man in Comics…” learned about what makes a good comic? 2. Why was creating something like If I had to pick top five lessons, they would be: “U Cre-8 Comics” or “The Kinder Guardians” important for you? 1. What makes a good comic is NOT universal A selection of comics published by Vantage:Inhouse or formulaic.