GoComics. D.J. Coffman – Drawer o' Stuff | illustration – design – thinking. A Room with a View: Motel Art Improvement Service by Jason Little. Motel Art Improvement Service is the second book to feature Bee, my plucky red-haired girl character. In Motel Art she commences an ambitious cross-country solo bike trip, but is thwarted when her bike is crushed by a tractor-trailer in rural New Jersey. She holes up in a cheap motel where she finds herself attracted to Cyrus, an itinerant hotel-housekeeper and outsider artist. Cyrus paints new characters into the prints that hang on the motel room walls. Together they travel to a towering airport hotel outside of Newark, where they become entangled in an illicit drug deal. PFC Rick Johnson, on leave from the army, plans to rendezvous with some bumbling kids from Princeton (a spendthrift club-kid and a Korean lesbian) who will sell him a giant bag of homemade ecstasy.
While anticipating Doubleday’s publication of my first book Shutterbug Follies, I spent the summer of 2002 hammering out draft after draft of the plot, showing it to trusted confidants for review after each revision. Creating Comics resource site by Dave A. Law. Co-Run by the maintainer of this site. Your support is appreciated. :) Welcome to the Creating Comics resource source of information for comic writers, artists, letterers, and self-publishers. Here you will find to various resources on the Internet for practically every aspects of comic creation, including a reference section to jump start any researching you have to do.
Resources are broken down into several categories. Click on the icon or name of the category you wish to view for quick access. Writing - Here you will find various resources related to writing comics. Illustrating - Here you will find various resources related to penciling, inking and coloring comics. Lettering - Here you will find various resources related to lettering comics. Submitting - Here you will find various publishers to try and find work with. Self-publishers - Mainstream self-publishing - Here you will find resources about publishing your own comic professionally. Process Of An Artist – "Abe Sapien's" Jason Shawn Alexander. [UPDATE: Wednesday evening, CBR News recevied an e-mail from Dark Horse editor Scott Allie who explained why "Abe Sapien: The Drowning" #2 didn't actually ship today. "'Abe' #2 did not go on sale today because the colors on the book didn't print quite right, so we had to scrap the print run and reprint.
I got advances for the reprint today, and they look fantastic, so they're gonna be on sale next Wednesday. "] With "Abe Sapien: The Drowning" #2 --continuing the story of Hellboy's partner's first solo adventure for the BPRD-- on sale today from Dark Horse, artist Jason Shawn Alexander offered CBR News an exclusive and in-depth look at the creative process behind his striking and unusual style. Below, Alexander explains in his own words the thoughts, preparation, and near-catastrophes behind three pivotal pages of "Abe Sapien: The Drowning" #1. By Jason Shawn Alexander Pencils…. As much as I would like to be more professional, I cannot see drawing the same image numerous times. …and acrylic… Ashley Wood Special (3) One of the nice things about the work of Ashley Wood is the consistent graphic design it seems to surround itself with.
What I didn’t know is that often, someone else happens to be responsible for the graphics, and that someone else happens to be a Belgian: a guy named Tom Muller. Take a look at the work here (probably not all of it is by Muller, I’m not always sure…) and if you want to see some more, check out Tom Muller at www.hellomuller.com. And if you just came in, also check out part 1 and part 2, the previous installments of the Ashley Wood Special. Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. “The Avengers”– Premake. Briskey in Sin City. Mike Mignola Interview. Docu: Comics 1973. Comics: Dupuy & Berberian. There is nothing uncommon about long time collaborating duo’s in comics but the way Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian work together keeps surprising people. You would expect one of them to be the artist and the other the writer but they do things differently: both of them work as artist and as writer, on the same comic, in such a way that you cannot tell by looking at the end result who did what.
Their styles have merged into one. Some people even thought “Dupuy-Berberian” to be the fancy hyphenated surname of a single person. When this Mr. If you are new to the work of Dupuy and Berberian, maybe you can best start by reading the lovely “Monsieur Jean” books (available in English as published by Drawn & Quarterly in their magazine and as a collection of three early stories in “Get a life”) or check out their diverse illustration work in "The Complete Universe of Dupuy & Berberian" published by the Dutch Oog & Blik. Sfar: The Rabbi’s Cat (teaser) Remember the post on Joann Sfar’s movie “Gainsbourg”, a while ago? Well, our beloved French comic artist slash film maker has a new film out: “Le Chat du Rabbin” based on the popular comic books with the same name. It’s an animated movie this time.
Check out the trailer below… If you want more, here you can find a “making of” of sorts (in French) or a longer trailer (also in French). Social Media for Young Cartoonists: Week 4: Building with Tumblr « « Drawing Words Writing Pictures Drawing Words Writing Pictures. This is part four of an ongoing project by the DW-WP interns Hilary Allison and JP Kim. This summer, we’re pulling out all the “social media” stops to get our work seen and our names out.
It’s an experiment, and we’re documenting every step… so YOU can learn from our successes and failures. Read Week 1 here. Hilary writing. Week 2, JP and I compared every web hosting option we could find. Week 3, I chose Tumblr to host – and build – HilaryAllison.net. This week, I built it. Choosing a Theme As JP has already attested, Tumblr offers an impressive variety of pre-made customizable themes… all of which allow HTML fiddling. “Inkhorn” is my choice for now. Other Free Art-Conducive Favorites: seattle Simple 400 minimal 3 writability Green Brownie Essej Boston Polaroid Chunk Frontier Mustard Pencil The Minimalist Modern5 Comic5 Quite Big absent colors Kalalalani Themagio zebra blanket orange peel If This, Then Then Liquid Typo Q: Did you choose “Inkhorn” just because it has “ink” in the name? A: … Maybe. Creating Pages. Social Media for Young Cartoonists Project: Week 3: Twitter « « Drawing Words Writing Pictures Drawing Words Writing Pictures.
This is part three of an ongoing project by the DW-WP interns Hilary Allison and JP Kim. This summer, we’re pulling out all the “social media” stops to get our work seen and our names out. It’s an experiment, and we’re documenting every step… so YOU can learn from our successes and failures. Read Week 1 here. JP writes in plain text today. Hilary chimes in with italics. Rewind to 2006. Twitter comes out. Fast Forward to the Present. I use Twitter daily. What to Post: Post sketches. There isn’t really anymore to be said about it. Twitter is just one of the many parts of the social media monster that has become essential these days. You get one, you post things, people read them. Wait, JP, let’s talk about following!
Okay, take it. About Following “Following” is subscribing to other users’ tweets. People you know don’t know will follow you. Also! Twitter Clients “Clients” are applications you can use to access your Twitter account (an alternative to logging in via Twitter.com). JP Kim = @whurf. Social Media for Young Cartoonists Project: Week 2: Setting up websites. « « Drawing Words Writing Pictures Drawing Words Writing Pictures. This is part two of an ongoing project by the DW-WP interns Hilary Allison and JP Kim. This summer, we’re pulling out all the “social media” stops to get our work seen and our names out. It’s an experiment, and we’re documenting every step… so YOU can learn from our successes and failures. Read Week 1 here. Hilary reporting. If you read last week’s post, you know that my goal for THIS week was to have created a website, connected it to my domain, and made a game plan for content. Haha. My Unrealistic Checklist (What I Wanted for My Website) [ ] Free Hosting [ ] No Ads / Banners [ ] Customizable [ ] Fast / Easy to Update [ ] Image-Display Friendly Monday: I had decided to use WordPress.com to build my website.
. $15.00 to customize CSS….? Now, I’m no coding wizard, but it’s the only way I know to make something unique out of a generic blog theme. Tuesday: “Okay,” I thought, “so I’ll just go back to Blogspot.” Wednesday: I collected opinions from cartoonist friends. Thursday: Friday: ∞ “Limited Time!” Wizzywig Comics by Ed Piskor - Color Chart of Yore. Once upon a time before Adobe Photoshop, the color palette of comic books was very limited. Instead of the millions of colors that you can blend and gradiate and add filters to, there was a time where you were limited to 64 colors on average (that number is liquid if you’re a nerd about the printing process.
In fact, this blog entry is completely inspired by Frank Santoro’s collected archive of such minutia. ). The main complaint I hear from pretty much everybody with good taste, is that there is a total abuse of color and computer effects that is committed in most comics. Take a look at nearly any mainstream book and you will see the atrocity. Anyhow, the color work that I’ve always responded to positively seems to share the similarities of operating within a select palette of color.
It wasn’t hard to find this old 64 color guide through some Google searching. You can click the image or the link below to get the ZIP file with the color chart. Www.detekenaarssite.be. Expositie & boekpresentatie Serge Baeken bij Lambiek. Killing The Grizzly #4: The Digital Comics Business Model. The Digital Comics Business Model – Getting Started I struggled with whether I should actually call this article “The Digital Comics Business Model”, because, ultimately, EVERY single Killing the Grizzly article will be precisely this,and what’s the point of having to sub-subtitle every article because I stupidly choose too overly-generic a main subtitle (KILLING THE GRIZZLY being the main-main title) too early in the game?
But as we’ll discuss a little further on (possibly in a future KtG, possibly in a few paragraphs, I’m making this up as I go), titles are very important, and self-explanatory titles even more so, due to search engines and the way in which we hunt for information in the (yup) “information age”. What we live in now, to coin a term, is The InfoActive Age. Static pages relate facts and statistics, news or entertainment, which we have very little control over and no easy ability to share or socially network with others. Such sites are a dying and virtually obsolete breed. Docu: Superman.
Machine Gum - Comics by John Martz. Tom Gauld - latest. Joann Sfar: Gainsbourg. I recently saw the film “Gainsbourg: Vie Héroïque” by Joann Sfar. I know, I know… it’s been out for a while now, but I really really liked it a lot, so I just had to make a post about it… Joann Sfar is of course a well known French comics author. This is the first time he has made a film (if we don’t count the animated series that were made based on his “Petit Vampire” comics). It’s not that often that a comic book artist tries his hand at making films, not just having his books adapted, but really “making” a film, as a writer and director. Sfar does, and he succeeds wonderfully in this task. Then again, Sfar has this extraordinary capability of mixing childlike nonchalance with outrageous intelligence. That is what made his books such a delight to read and it is equally present in his work on Gainsbourg.
Take a look at the trailer, but also at the short interview which follows, and you’ll see what I mean… Don’t worry, I found an interview in which he speaks English… 10 things to remember when pitching to SelfMadeHero | SelfMadeHero. SelfMadeHero is heading North for Thought Bubble Festival! We’re looking forward to what has quickly become a much-looked-forward-to fixture in the SelfMadeHero convention calendar. Many creators who have worked with us or are working with SelfMadeHero at the moment will be there on Saturday. I mean, just look at all the banners (that I’ve shamelessly pulled from the Thought Bubble site and placed throughout this post)! The writing powerhouse behind SelfMadeHero's Sherlocks (not to mention the odd Poe, Lovecraft or Wilde tale). Other than the creators, the editorial powers of SelfMadeHero will be in attendance at Thought Bubble and are open to pitches for blisteringly good, original graphic novels from UK creators for our original fiction series and beyond.
Because of this, we thought it might be useful to give you a few tips to pitching projects to us at Thought Bubble. 1 – how we do itWe publish – almost exclusively – books that have become known as graphic novels. 6 – Grow up! I.N.J. Portugal - Cyril Pedrosa. Joann Sfar Animation. 4CP: Color Process Erotica. Yes: erotica! And no, I’m not kidding. I think these picture are extremely sensuous. And I think the people behind the 4CP-site have the same idea. Listen to this: Dots emit radiation. As you get closer to them, they begin to vibrate and pulse. So at 4CP you’ll find nothing but single panels or even parts of panels, taken from old comic books. Gone are the page, the frame, the plot, and localized contextual meaning. Take a look at the following examples and when properly aroused, spent some time at 4cp.posterous.com. You can read more about the ideas behind 4CP in the essay "In defense of dots" by John Hilgart. The Art Of Dave McKean. Mattotti.com = the official website of Lorenzo Mattotti.
Paper View (4): Mattotti. In the Paper View series we watch people draw. Today, we’ve got a big shot: Italian maestro of comics Lorenzo Mattotti! I’m a big fan of Mattotti. I love his color work (mostly crayons and pastels) but every now and again he goes completely black and white. Some of his very best comics he made like that (the somewhat under-appreciated “Stigmates” for instance), and in this video he once again goes for the starkest black on white. The clip is in French (with Spanish subtitles),so you already have two shots at understanding Mr Mattotti. The New Yorker magazine had asked several people for an illustration for the “Hansel and Grethel” fairytale. “Drawing in black and white requires for the artist to be very concentrated to see what’s going on in the drawing.” says Mattotti. “Hansel and Grethel” has always been one of the fairytales that scared Mattotti the most when he was still a child, but being scared is not something he thinks is bad for children.
Find the official Mattotti website here. Peur(s) du noir / Prima Linea Productions. Comics: Serge Baeken. Anatomy of a cover: VIKING Volume 1 “The Long Cold Fire”. Bent, a new art book by Dave Cooper The.
Mike & Katie Mignola. Comics: Blast by Larcenet. Jochen Gerner. Comics: Warwick Cadwell. Stefano Ricci. Hey, did you know a bunch of Ben Katchor’s Metropolis magazine strips are online? Comics: Brecht Evens (2) Comics: Brecht Evens (2) Comics: Alberto Breccia. Comics: Philip Paquet. Anthony Lister. Julio Cortázar & José Muñoz. The Women of Corto Maltese. Totentanz – Dino Battaglia.