Tomorrow (Saturday, May 28) I’ll be on several panels atย Conduitย in SLC, discussing writing, drawing and comics. Bring your questions and sketchbooks. See you there!
Today I’m giving a 2-hour presentation on writing, drawing and making comics at the Salt Lake City Library, from 3-5pm. It’s free to attend and I expect to see you there with your sketchbook and questions! More information is available on the library’s website.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA] Who doesn’t love This American Life? Furthermore, who doesn’t love Ira Glass or good storytelling? Fortunately for us, this four part mini-series on storytelling with Ira Glass is available on YouTube. BONUS: There’s also thisย great animation starring a hot dog.
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…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/22999575] Beautiful promo video for the Toronto Comics Arts Festival this Saturday.
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…
[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7441654662611402262&q=making%2Bof%2Bsalon%2Bbertozzi#] “Behind the scenes with cartoonist Nick Bertozzi, as he writes and illustrates his graphic novel The Salon. Nick shows us the arduous process of making a comic book. Nick explains how he got the idea for The Salon, which retells the story of Picasso and Braque inventing Cubism. He’s added more than a hint…
Later this Fall, my first graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale, will be released from Top Shelf Productions. To get people excited about the book, Top Shelf invited me to contribute a four-page story to this year’s Free Comic Book Day issue! Dad got me into Free Comic Book Day years ago when it…
This blog needed something colorful, so here is this week’s drawing of the X-Men. There’s also this colorful interview with Aaron Renier (The Unsinkable Walker Bean, Spiral Bound)ย from Inkstuds. Aaron himself warns of his language and subject matter atย 44:30-49:00, but the rest is fantastic!