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About the Comic Strip Multiplex is an online comic strip about the staff of a movie theater and the movies that play there. It has been running continuously since July, 2005. Multiplex currently serves about 55,000 unique visitors per month. About the Artist Gordon McAlpin is a Filipino-American writer and cartoonist. He grew up in Peoria, Illinois, before moving to Chicago in 2001. From 2004–2006, Gordon created Stripped Books, a series of non-fiction strips covering book- and comics-related events in comics form. Multiplex began in July, 2005, and is Gordon’s first on-going comic strip. In addition to working full-time as a freelance print production artist for an educational publishing company, he also does a bit of writing, illustration, and photo retouching now and then, and, along with fellow movie webcartoonists Tom Brazelton (Theater Hopper) and Joe Dunn (Joe Loves Crappy Movies), co-hosts The Triple Feature movie review podcast every Monday night at 9 pm Central Time. Gordon draws Multiplex in Adobe Illustrator CS4 on a Mac and happily endorses the Phantasm CS family of plug-ins. He uses Coda to update and maintain the Multiplex website and hosts the site on Slicehost. Please feel free to e-mail Gordon with interview requests or other questions, unless you are a spammer. A low-res photo of Gordon (taken by Charlene Epple) can be downloaded here. A high-res version is available here. Interviews “Lights, Camera, Comic: Talking to Gordon McAlpin” Conducted by Rose Miller. Gapers Block. July, 2009. “Interview with the very talented Gordon McAlpin on his comical creation, Multiplex!” Conducted by Mark Larsson. Xcentrkiz. July, 2009. “Inside the Webcomic Studio with Gordon McAlpin.” Conducted by Xaviar Xerexes. COMIXtalk. October, 2008. “Multiplex and the Untitled RDJ Project.” Playing in Peoria Podcast #16. August 18, 2008. “Inside the Multiplex: Gordon McAlpin on Multiplex.” Conducted by Chris Arrant. Newsarama.com. December 7, 2007. “Multiplex geek-out rules the strip mall.” Article by Dan Webster. The Spokesman-Review. October 17, 2007. “Cursory Conversation: Gordon McAlpin.” Conducted by Brian Warmoth. Wizard.com. September 28, 2007. “Giving a whole new meaning to ‘film strip.’” Article and interview with me about Multiplex by Chad Greene. Boxoffice. August, 2007. “Chicago Webcomic Artists.” Article on Chicago-based webcartoonists, including myself and three others, plus a short comic about how Multiplex is created using Adobe Illustrator. Chicago Living Arts. July, 2006. “An Old Journalist With a New Trick.” Interview conducted by Trisha Sebastian. Sequential Tart. June, 2006. “An Interview with Multiplex’s Gordon McAlpin.” Conducted by Al Schroeder. Comixpedia. May, 2006. |
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