Meet Johnny Boo & Harold in TRICKY TREATERS: Free at Your Comic Shop! This Halloween, Top Shelf’s spookiest and silliest all-ages characters are teaming up for a FREE mini-comic of all-new stories by James Kochalka and Jess Smart Smiley! We’re joining Diamond Comic Distributors’ Halloween ComicFest to bring you Tricky Treaters, a 12-page full-color comic book available at your local comic…
Two big events happening this weekend: 24-Hour Comics Day, and the Teen Book Fest. 24-HOUR COMICS DAY 24-Hour Comics Day is an event held around the world which challenges writers and artists to create a full 24-page comic in 24 consecutive hours. Thousands of artists take the 24-Hour Comics Day Challenge every year! The fun…
Just a quick reminder that my Comics Grab Bag is ending in just 5 days on Kickstarter. $8 gets you the 24-page comics collection (plus 4 bonus pages), as well as a Skate Bird temporary tatto! If we can push the project to $1,000 before the project ends, then I’ll also print my 24-page issue…
Top Shelf Comix just posted 9 pages of previews from my upcoming graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale. Get a taste for the 144-page comic (and sloppy rough draft of the cover) here. Although we’re still five months away from its release, you can pre-order the book on the Top Shelf site or your local comic…
Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow, Saturday May 5! Free Comic Book Day is a single day – the first Saturday in May each year – when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores. Find a comics shop near…
Check it out – my Comics Grab Bag was picked and featured by the Kickstarter staff! My full-color short comics collection is now 76% funded, and a mere 10 comics orders shy of succeeding. Pretty exciting! We’re so close, but the project won’t happen at all unless we hit 100%. So, let’s make this fun.…
I love sharing comics on this blog that I’ve been working on, and those that I’ve finished that have been included in anthologies and other projects, but it’s always a little sad for me that I’m not able to share entire comics with you here. Well, all of that ends today. The Comics Grab Bag…
“Frank Santoro is starting his own Correspondence Course, but it’s small: only ten students will be accepted. It is a one-on-one 8-week correspondence course over phone, e-mail and snail mail. He’s going to focus specifically on advancing your understanding of layouts, color, contour line drawing, and printmaking for producing comic books. Frank is an astonishingly accomplished artist, and…
Watch out—today I am unleashing… THE CHAIN GANG is a hilarious 1,000-page ultra comic about a group of unwanted and forgotten bicycles led by Poppa Wheelie that band together to wreak havoc on the world, one neighborhood at a time! Instead of waiting years for me to draw all 1,000 pages, I’m going to be releasing…
Tonight I am presenting How I Made My Graphic Novel at the Orem Public Library, from 7-8pm. The event is free and open to the public. I’ll be taking the audience through a step-by-step process of how I made my book, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale—everything from the initial idea, to developing the story, making…