What! Jonathan Safran-Foer has a new book out?! Why didn’t anyone tell me?!ย Apparently one of my favorite authors has released a new book, without telling subscribers of his e-mail list (me). Shame on you, JSF. Rude. The best-selling author of Eating Animals, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Everything is Illuminated released his newest book,…
My MONSTER COLORING BOOK is coming right along! If you’re looking for 32 pages of monster-goodness to color, then look no further than the Monster Coloring Book! You can order it via Kickstarter until the end of March, and you can pick up an original monster drawing (like this), or a paper cut-out while you’re…
Grimalkin Press is now accepting short comics for it’s upcoming HIVE SIX comics anthology. You have until April 1 to submit, so get on it! If you like what you see, you can get previous issues here.
Nick Bertozzi has written and illustrated a few of my favorite comics and graphic novels, including The Salon and Houdini: the Handcuff King (that’s right—a graphic novel about the life of Houdini). His drawings and storytelling are true-to-life portraits of people and events and they always leave me wanting more. Fortunately, we don’t have to…
At last week’s Life, the Universe and Everything symposium, we talked a little bit about how we need to work more and talk less about our projects. Whether it’s a movie, a drawing, a story (or finally changing the oil in the car!), we all have projects that we can’t wait to see come to…
You know what’s fun? Paper. Paper is fun. I’m making a MONSTER COLORING BOOK and have been in contact with several printers to find the right papers, binding, print quality and (of course) price. Talking about paper is kind of like describing a color to someone without any reference. Without the paper there in front…
What a way to spend a weekend! Life, the Universe and Everything is Utah’s own 3-day symposium with panels, workshops and presentations on writing, art, literature, media and other aspects of speculative fiction. My dad got me into the symposium several years ago and it’s always been something that I look forward to—I know I’ll…
Surely you’ve heard about this—it’s like Google Earth, but for museums. You can virtually explore several of the world’s largest and most frequented art galleries and museums via the Google Art Project. A little behind-the-scenes video here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYXdEUB0VgQ&feature=player_embedded]
TUTORIALS / PROCESS / INTERVIEWS Coloring Comics Digitally with Kazu Kabuishi Using Photoshop Actions to Speed the Process Various interviews with comics writers, publishers and artists onย The Comics Journal The Personal Touch (audio recording of panel on personalizing your comics) How to Make an Interactive Comic video by Jason Shiga Understanding, Making and Teaching Comics…