THE GEEKEND IS HERE! Get Your Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fix at WesterCon This Weekend Westercon 67 is a general interest science fiction/fantasy convention covering literature, art, science, gaming, movies, comics and more…and it starts today! Guests include Brandon Sanderson, Cory Doctorow and Dan Wells (among others), and I’ve been invited to participate in a couple of panels…
I love what comics can do and I love teaching this comics workshop. Yesterday we were talking about panels and when to use larger or smaller panels. We found this page from Craig Thompson’s Blankets, where we see a narrow panel of Craig’s mom waving goodbye, and then a large vignette of Craig driving away, leaving his…
Ryan Simmons works as a character designer and animator, and now he’s trying his hand at a graphic novel! Ryan and I had a chance to talk for about an hour at LTUE back in February and I was really taken by his experience in cartoons and animation and “Aiden finds himself in the Afterlife having traveled…
MAKING COMICS | JUNE 9-13 Have children ages 12-18 that want to make comics? I’ll be teaching a five-day comics workshop at Higher Ground Learning in Salt Lake City, June 9-13, covering everything from generating and filtering story ideas, developing characters and story arcs, laying out comics pages and speech bubbles, making rough drafts, and publishing opportunities for comics-makers. I…
(from the Chicago Reader) We’re delighted to announce the return of the Reader‘s Comics Issue, and this time we’d like to open the door to submissions from the midwest’s impressive comics community. While the competition is open to all, we favor submissions from the Chicagoland area. The curator of the issue is none other than…
YEAR IN REVIEW 2013 has been quite a year! I’m so grateful for the opportunity I have to work in a field that I love and to put more of my favorite pictures and ideas into the world. Here are a few project highlights from the year: Life, the Universe and Everything This was my…
I’ve been a fan of Dave Stewart’s abilities for the last ten years, and it’s been fascinating to watch him tackle projects as varied as Hellboy, Sandman: Overture, Daytripper and now Craig Thompson’s Space Dumplins. I recently discovered the new comics interview show, From the Gutters, and was happy to find a two-part video interview with…
Comics-maker Isaac Cates has come up with an incredible 10-issue comic series called Cartozia Tales. “Cartozia Tales is an all-ages fantasy series, with nine stories in each issue, all set in the same world. But Cartozia is not your standard swords-and-sorcery setting. Although it does have gryphons and dragons and elves, it’s also got stork-headed men…
Who’s ready for another look-n-find scene? My buddy Isaac is running an all-ages fantasy anthology on Kickstarter and he’s asked me to make a new look-n-find scene if the project funds. Check it out and make this happen! http://tiny.cc/vo8a3w
For the next two weeks (thru Friday September 27th) Top Shelf Productions is having its annual $3 web sale. You’ll find 150+ graphic novels and comics on sale, with over 100 titles marked down to just $3 & $1! My own graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale, is only $3–just in time for Halloween. …