If you don't already know about the comics, film & gaming news website, THE COMIC COLLECTIVE, now's a great time to check it out since they've just added the video interview I did with TCC's Bradley Hatfield during this year's New York Comicon. Brad and I talked about my current ACT-I-VATE comic, LOVIATHAN.
Click HERE to see the video.

"Comix aren't just for comix readers anymore."

http://media.libsyn.com/media/wordballoon/WBdeanhaspiel08.mp3

John Siuntres was kind enough to interview me this week over the phone for his excellent comix podcast website, Word Balloon, where I discuss digital comix, my Eisner Award nominated Billy Dogma, Street Code, Next-Door Neighbor, my collaborations with Jonathan Ames on THE ALCOHOLIC, Jeff Parker on X-MEN FIRST CLASS, and my upcoming kids book, MO & JO: FIGHTING TOGETHER FOREVER, with underground comix legend, Jay Lynch, for Francoise Mouly's Toon Books, and much more. The podcast runs 54:25.

For more cool WORD BALLOON interviews: http://www.wordballoon.com/

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080723-StreetCode.html

A nice, concise interview about the origins of my new webcomic, STREET CODE.

If any of you are young enough (or old enough) to buy Mad Magazine, you’ll find a two-page comic illustrated by me (written by Dick Debartolo) in the August issue (with all the super heroes on the cover) which should be on the stands now.
Here’s a peek:



Tim Hamilton

I did a brief entry over at the First Second blog on the use of the graphic Halo.

Thomas Baehr's The End is Here has been featured on Newsarama! Chris Arrant interviews Thomas Baehr about getting straight A's: Antarctica, American Comics and Act-i-vate! Click here to read for yourself.

Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson has an exclusive preview of my upcoming Zuda webcomix series, STREET CODE, at USA Today:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/2008/07/exclusive-previ.html

David Gallaher of High Moon gives props to Webcomics as guest contributor at Newsarama's newly resurrected I heart Comics column.

He was generous enough to send nods to many Act-i-vate comics including Back Stage by Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt, Sam and Lilah by Jim Dougan and Hyeondo Park and The Transmigration of ULTRA-lad!" by yours truly. Act-i-vate affiliates, Yes, Mother by Elizabeth Genco and Sami Makkonen and of course Dean Haspiel's Next-Door Neighbor Series on Smith Magazine were also highlighted.

Thanks David!

NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, the anthology I created and edit for SMITH Magazine, was featured in NY MAGAZINE with an exclusive sneak-peek featuring a first time collaboration by Harvey Pekar & Rick Veitch:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/07/comics_ndn.html

Hot off the presses is the latest issue of Heeb Magazine which features a one page comic of mine called, Workin' Girl Golem. The results are guaranteed fukakta. Click the image above to visit the site and see for yourself.