ACT-I-VATE, a webcomix collective conceived by Dean Haspiel, debuted February 1st, 2006, on the blogging platform, Livejournal, and featured the works of founding members Dean Haspiel, Dan Goldman, Nick Bertozzi, Michel Fiffe, Leland Purvis, Nikki Cook, Tim Hamilton, and Josh Neufeld. Since then, the collective has expanded by hand-picking cartoonists at a regular rate to achieve its current membership.
ACT-I-VATE, the premiere webcomix collective, features original, serialized graphic novels and is updated daily. ACT-I-VATE's select artists produce their work without editorial oversight and offer their comix for free to an ever-growing audience of loyal readers. In addition to these high-quality comix, ACT-I-VATE is known for having lifted the veil between creation, creator, and reader by providing a forum for spirited dialogue between audience and auteur. The new website confirms one of ACT-I-VATE's core tenets: that the artists and writers of the comix community are the optimal providers of intellectual properties and comix content.
WAVE 1: http://www.newsarama.com/general/Activate/Activateactivates.htm
WAVE 2: http://forum.newsarama.com/showpost.php?p=1825286
WAVE 3: http://forum.newsarama.com/showpost.php?p=2464671
Associated Press: http://asap.ap.org/stories/1291201.s
New York Times: Young, Hip and Wild about Comic Books
