In Utah This Week and Big Shiny Robot were great enough to include me in their list of Five Local Comic Artists to Watch! Isn’t that wild? I know what you’re thinking: are they blind? Have they even seen the junk I put out? Yeah. My thoughts exactly. But somehow they put me on the…
What a great idea, right? Make a recipe in comics form (a recipe for anything—food or otherwise) and send it in to be collected in Just Add Ink: A Comic Cook Book. Submissions are due June 15 and you can find the guidelines for making your comic here. The book will also be shown in…
It’s that time of year again, when every comic book store in North America passes out free comics! Top Shelf Productions has a 24-page issue filled with comics from James Kochalka, Andy Runton, Ray Friesen, Chris Eliopoulos, Christian Slade, and a 4-page story of my very own, featuring Harold the vampire, and his batty friends…
We all know Bill Watterson as the writer and artist of our beloved Calvin and Hobbesย comic strip. I remember watching the news at my grandparent’s house in 1995, when it was announced that Bill Watterson had drawn the last strip and wouldn’t be drawing Calvin and Hobbesย anymore. I remember rushing to my copies of Revenge…
The ever-friendly and ever-helpful comics expert, Scott McCloud, has posted a straight-forward tutorial for creating lettering and panel borders using Adobe Illustrator. He makes it simple and easy to understand, and, after reading parts 1 and 2, you’ll no longer have any excuse notย to finish a comic!
The Minneapolis’ City Pagesย have put out a call for comics for their annual comics issue. The theme is really fun: imagine what your life will be like in the future and make a comic about what your life is like. You can find their guidelines and more info here. The deadline for submissions is July…
Oh, gosh. Ivan Brunetti again. I love this guy and his book on cartooning. Ivan was interviewed on The Comics Journal about teaching cartooning and his involvement with comics and writing. He mentions how some beginners tend to get too wrapped up in “technical stuff right off the bat” (which is true in nearly all…
The beginning of my new comic The Golem’s Tooth—starring our friendly all-clay hero, in an epic quest to return the Golem’s tooth at whatever the cost!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPtZOUr0Ctc] Joann Sfar is the madman creator of about a million comics and graphic novels and they’re all my favorite. One of his books is The Rabbi’s Cat and it’s coming out this June in the form of a traditional 2D animation! Sure, it’s in French, but it’s gonna be beeeeeea-utiful!
A few days ago I came across this fun look into Darrell’s process for making his web comic, Sticks and Bones. It’s always interesting to me to see how creators’ processes can be so similar sometimes, and so vastly different at others. This overview seems pretty standard, but it’s a good reminder of how important…