Probably going to catch some heat from this comment, but I’m not much of a comic book fan. Never really have been.
However, when I came across the NDN wecomix series, my curiosity got the better of me.
Edited by Dean Haspiel and brought to you by the good folks over at SMITH Magazine Next-Door Neighbor is a series of true-life webcomix featuring todays best artists and writers.
Below are a few samples and official press release from SMITH Mag. Be sure to check out the rest of the works here.
Looks like Harvey Pekar got in on the fun as well.
“Everybody has a neighbor. No matter how close or how far, we all live next to someone, and we all have a Next-Door Neighbor story,” says NDN Editor Dean Haspiel. “With this in mind, I asked some of my favorite storytellers and cartoonists to create their favorite NDN stories so that we at SMITH Magazine could share them with you over the next year.”
New installments of Next-Door Neighbor will appear every two weeks on online storytelling community, SMITH Magazine.
The first wave of stories launches with an urban “daymare” titled “Next-Door Neighborless” written by novelist Jonathan Ames and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi, whose graphic novel The Salon, was hailed as among the best comics of 2007. Upcoming stories feature the talents of Kevin Colden, John Cebollero, Joan Reilly, Ed Piskor, and Miss Lasko-Gross. The second wave will be announced in June and includes a super-secret, special first-time writer/artist matchup.
True to its reader-generated spirit, SMITH is concurrently launching a contest, “What’s Your Next-Door Neighbor Story?” Readers are invited to submit their own true stories. The winning tale will be matched with an artist, and transformed into a full-color, multipanel webcomic. This “user-generated” tale will appear as the last installment of Next-Door Neighbor.
