Author: Jess Smart Smiley


  • (Response to Aurora 12 shooting, July 20, 2012) While the rest of us slept twelve of us just left and there’s fifty or maybe even more fillin’ up the hospital and comin’ in the doors we’ll all join up, I guess, with the twelve of us that left He was twenty-four years old, and what…

  • (reposted from the BOOM! Pen) Step 1: Based on Ryanโ€™s script, we do a pencil sketch. By doing this on a computer rather than on paper, we can move things around, resize them, and generally make things easier to read. We also sketch in the word balloons, roughly as big as theyโ€™ll need to be,…

  • (reposted from Andy J Miller) 5 Reasons You Have to be Creating Your Own Content (And what does it say about me that I’m reposting this? :P) 1. Traditional Marketing and Advertising is dead! Look at an extremely successful designer or illustrator and you will see a strong body of content. We all know advertising…

  • Salt Lake City’s Alt Press Fest on Saturday, July 7, was amazing! The Alt Press Fest isย a one-day independent zine festival featuring artists and authors, music, demos and workshops, held at the Salt Lake City library, home to one of the largest zine collections in the world! I was invited to set up a table,…

  • A BUNCH OF DOODLES

    Sometimes I have a few minutes in the day where I just want to draw one-minute pictures for people. Yesterday I put a shout-out on Facebook for anyone that wanted a one-minute drawing. Here are a few of the doodles I doodled:                

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  • My second monster tattoo for Tattoo Club‘s upcoming Monster Pack (out this Friday on Kickstarter!).

  • From today’s interview with Gavin’s Underground for City Weekly: “Gavin: What’s the process for you when creating a new comic, from first idea to final product? Jess:ย One fun way to start is to put three characters you’ve made together, and start an idea map (or idea web) and jot down little ideas about each character.…

  • Did you know that the Salt Lake City library houses the biggest zine collection in the U.S.? Their catalogue includes over 2,500 unique titles and over 6,000 publications. The SLC Library is also the host of Utah’s Alt Press Fest, a one-day independent zine festival featuring artists and authors, music, demos and workshops. AND it’s…