Broken Frontier

The official group blog of the writers and artists of Ferret Press (a publisher of fine comix) and PANEL (a Columbus, Ohio comic creators collective) is celebrating its 3rd anniversary. To commemorate the event, the blog will feature tons of daily content, artwork, games, pictures, and a few extra surprises for the entire week of April 3rd.

"We started our blog this week 3 years ago, with a tongue-in-cheek manifesto of sorts, which we affectionately refer to as our Panelfesto," said Ferret Press publisher and PANEL co-founder Dara Naraghi. "The blog was meant as a casual, informal forum for creative expression, and that's exactly what its been for all these years." The blog features daily musings on comics, art, the creative process, politics, the web, and life in general. To celebrate the milestone, the creators on the blog have planned an explosion of content for the entire week, including:

*  A full week's worth of the popular feature "Monday Morning Guess the Artist," wherein a page of comic art from the early career of some of today's big name artists is posted, and readers try to guess the name based on the not-so-easily recognized style.

*  Tony Goin's "What Went Wrong" essays, in which he examines a popular comic book or movie and details what went wrong in the execution of an otherwise good idea.

*  Craig Bogart continues his "Desert Island Comics", a list of the top ten comics he'd like to have with him if stranded on an island.

*  Andy Bennett will break down the process by which he goes from script to breakdowns to pencils to inks, by posting step-by-step entries for a story he's working on for the next PANEL anthology.

In addition, for the duration of the week of April 3rd, all Ferret Press comix available for purchase via the website will include free shipping!
Check out all the happenings at http://www.ferretpress.com/weblog.