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Brad Guigar (born April 9, 1969) is an American cartoonist who is best known for his daily webcomic Greystone Inn and its sequel Evil Inc.

Early life

Brad Guigar was the eldest of five children and grew up in

graphic artist and editorial cartoonist. He left The Repository and moved to Akron, Ohio and worked for the Akron Beacon Journal. He formerly worked at the Philadelphia Daily News and is married with two children. Guigar wrote and illustrated The Everything Cartooning Book (2004),[1]
contributed to the book How To Make Webcomics (2008),[2] wrote its sequel The Webcomics Handbook (2013),[3] and maintains the site Webcomics.com.

Career

Greystone Inn

Greystone Inn premiered on the Web on February 14, 2000. Later that year, the strip was added to the

Computer Arts
magazine every issue. Guigar makes money off his syndications by offering Greystone Inn for syndication at a certain rate, with a lower rate offered for college papers.

Greystone Inn has had a spin-off comic written and drawn by Brad Guigar named Mondays With Mel. It featured an old comedian named Mel who had been introduced in Greystone Inn as an old friend of Argus's. It worked by Mel setting up a joke and then allowing the audience to provide punchlines with the best one being featured in the strip. Since Guigar left Keenspot, Mondays With Mel has been on hiatus and is no longer available online.

In May 2005 Guigar ended Greystone Inn and began a spin-off,

Evil Inc.
, which focuses on a company of super-villains. Evil Inc. retains several Greystone Inn characters and has a similar style.

Courting Disaster

Courting Disaster is a single panel cartoon about love, sex, and dating. It originally appeared every Friday in the Philadelphia Daily News accompanying a sex advice column. In 2015 Courting Disaster was revived for occasional release as a Not Safe For Work comic available to certain Patreon subscribers.[4]

Phables

Phables was a comic strip about life in

Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic,[7] eventually losing to Steve Purcell's Sam & Max.[8]

Evil Inc.

"Evil Inc." redirects here. For the Hardy Boys novel, see Evil, Inc. (novel).

A spin-off from Guigar's previous project,

Halfpixel lineup, it appeared daily in newspapers until 2015.[9] Artistically, Evil Inc. initially followed the form of most newspaper comics with black and white line-art style, shades of gray used sparingly. The Strip has since begun using color. Most strips are formed of a series of panels which use a multitude of camera angles
.

The comic follows a strong story arc. In one, the corporation was bought, and subsequently brought to financial ruin, by the Legion of Justice (a parody of the Justice League and similar teams). However, the ruination of Evil, Inc. has also spelled doom for the Legion. Each strip maintains a self-contained joke, and the comic frequently parodies superhero comics and often uses puns.

Saturday strips are usually unconnected to weekday strips (the strip does not update on Sundays) and include such themes as Evil Inc. character profiles called "Personnel Files" (which describe a specific Evil Inc. character, usually one featured in the previous week), customer service calls fielded by Lightning Lady (who answers the phone "Evil Inc., how may I harm you?", previously "How may I misdirect your call?"), or, recently, various characters approaching a door that has been altered to complement the sign next to it (for example, the December 4, 2010 strip shows a door labeled "Office of Bizarro"; in this strip, the doorknob is placed next to the door rather than on it[10]).

Evil Inc was nominated for the 2007

Outstanding Superhero/Action Comic.[11]

Webcomics.com

Webcomics.com is a paywalled website run by Guigar as a place for advice, discussing and job information relating to cartoons.

Charitable work

As a member of Alternative Brand Studios, Brad Guigar ran the AltBrand 2002 MDA Webcomic Telethon. It featured over 20 comic artists and raised $850.

As a founding member of Blank Label Comics, Guigar also spearheaded the 2005 Webcomic Telethon for Hurricane Relief that raised an estimated $28,635 for the American Red Cross response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4405-2305-2
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  2. ISBN 978-1-58240-870-5
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  3. ISBN 978-0-9815209-6-4
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  4. ^ Goodman, David (4 April 2016). "Interview With Webcartoonist Brad Guigar". Bam Smack Pow. FanSided.
  5. ^ Kleefeld, Sean (13 April 2012). "Kleefeld on Webcomics #56: Brad Guigar Interview". MTV News. Viacom International. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  6. Nielsen Co.
    Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  7. San Diego Comic-Con International. 2007. Archived from the original
    on 2007-07-07.
  8. San Diego Comic-Con International. 2007. Archived from the original
    on 2007-10-04.
  9. ^ Melamed, Samantha (28 December 2015). "Edge City's 15-year run reflects the state of the comics page". Philly.com. Philadelphia Media Network.
  10. ^ "Evil Inc. By Brad Guigar - A Daily Webcomic". Archived from the original on 2010-12-09. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
  11. ^ Kjerland, Erik (2007). "Outstanding Superhero/Action Comic". Ryan Estrada. Webcartoonists' Choice Awards. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.

External links

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