Roundup: Creator Talk with L.J.-Baptiste on Comixscape

L.J.-Baptiste’s Creator Talk covered the intricacies of webcomic publishing.  He showed some very early character sketches from the beginnings of Comixscape, when it was called Toonatics, citing early influence from shows like Looney Tunes.

He talked about how he developed Tyler, the main character of Comixscape, from a fairly stereotypical creation of L.J.’s childhood into the kid he is today on the page. Comixscape originally began as part of DigBoston‘s Sunday Comics Project, and L.J. decided to migrate it to its own site and eventually put together a team of animators, voice actors, and other production staff to produce the first few pages in animated format (starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1KicfjwHbY).  He has also been working with a long-time collaborator to pitch several animated TV shows to studios in California.

 

Comixscape currently updates twice weekly; L.J. did go on hiatus for a time in order to create all of chapter four as a buffer. The new pages have just begun to be released.  L.J. showed a selection of his original pages and also brought copies of Comixscape #1 to sell.