From the First Second blog and the desk of Zack Giallongo: “Ever since I started down the path of drawing when I was a kid, my favorite thing was always the characters. It sounds obvious to me, but I realize that many people don’t always enjoy drawing characters or thinking about their design. As I got older,…
(reposted from the BOOM! Pen) Step 1: Based on Ryan’s script, we do a pencil sketch. By doing this on a computer rather than on paper, we can move things around, resize them, and generally make things easier to read. We also sketch in the word balloons, roughly as big as they’ll need to be,…
Salt Lake City’s Alt Press Fest on Saturday, July 7, was amazing! The Alt Press Fest is a one-day independent zine festival featuring artists and authors, music, demos and workshops, held at the Salt Lake City library, home to one of the largest zine collections in the world! I was invited to set up a table,…
From today’s interview with Gavin’s Underground for City Weekly: “Gavin: What’s the process for you when creating a new comic, from first idea to final product? Jess: One fun way to start is to put three characters you’ve made together, and start an idea map (or idea web) and jot down little ideas about each character.…
Did you know that the Salt Lake City library houses the biggest zine collection in the U.S.? Their catalogue includes over 2,500 unique titles and over 6,000 publications. The SLC Library is also the host of Utah’s Alt Press Fest, a one-day independent zine festival featuring artists and authors, music, demos and workshops. AND it’s…
CALL FOR COMICS #1 (from Emi Gennis and Hic + Hoc) Hic & Hoc Publications is planning to publish their first anthology next fall, and they have selected me to edit the book. I’m very excited about this! The theme of the book is Unsolved Mysteries, and we’re looking for submissions of short, nonfiction comics that fit within…
Someone likes me and it is Motor City Rocks. They wrote up some nice things about me, so that’s what makes me think they like me. For whatever it’s worth: I like them, too. They posted a short comic I made, so maybe you will like me, too?
Are you an artist or a writer and looking for a great way to spread your work to the masses? You might want to check out Emanata – a comic and visual story reader for the iPad that lets emerging visual storytellers show their work and interact with readers.”Some are funny, some sad, and some…
Drawn Words has taken interviews to a whole new level! Writer Kevin Cortez, and artist Estevan Sanchez have teamed up to make the most in-depth comics-style interview since Top Shelf’s Conversation #1 and #2, by drawing out their interview with comics great, Jeffrey Brown. Read the full interview at Drawn Words.