LEARN HOW TO MAKE COMICS!
LEARN HOW TO MAKE COMICS | JUNE 10-14 Do you have children ages 10-14 that want to make comics? I’ll be teaching a five-day comics class at Higher Ground Learning in Salt Lake City, June 10-14, covering everything from generating and filtering story ideas, developing characters and story arcs, laying out comics pages and speech … Read more
SCRAWL MAG DAY & NIGHT
Scrawl is a new prize winning, digital illustration & comics magazine created solely for the iPad. The Pilot issue won both the “best in the comics category” and the grand prize at the “Magnify your world contest” held by Mag+, and I’m happy to have not one, but TWO illustrations in their newest Day & Night … Read more
INFINITE SKELETON COMIC
Trubble Club has just launched The Infinite Corpse, a new collaborative online comic that is “open to everyone in the world who makes or wants to make comics.” Basically it’s an enormous add-on comic, where each creator is asked to follow the previous three panels with three of their own. The comic is now open … Read more
NEW COMICS!
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Emanata App on iTunes, then download the thing and get yourself some free comics! In the meantime, I was invited by C’est Bon Anthology’s International Comics Art Magazine to share a color comic for their newest issue, and it just arrived, filled with color and … Read more
STRANGE KIDS CLUB LIKE MY MONSTERS!
INDEPENDENTLY AWESOME It’s true! The Strange Kids Club is “a daily dose of adolescent enthusiasm for your inner child” featuring comics, video games, cool toys and all things geek! Remember Beetlejuice, the Toxic Avenger, Garbage Pail Kids and Alf? Strange Kids Club does, too. They also remember books like I Spy and Where’s Waldo? and waxed nostalgic over my … Read more
INTERVIEW WITH FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY Mark your calendars: Saturday, May 4 is Free Comic Book Day! 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. INTERVIEW … Read more
LOOKING BACK AT LTUE 2013
Every year–without fail–LTUE manages to be a bigger and better event than the previous year. 2013 has been no exception. WHAT IS LTUE? LTUE stands for Life, the Universe and Everything: a symposium on science fiction and fantasy, geared toward writers, artists, filmmakers and fans. This was my third year participating as a panelist, speaking … Read more
RESOURCES FOR CREATORS
RESOURCES My new “Resources” page has been getting a lot of hits, so I thought I’d talk a little bit about what’s available for creators. For now, the page contains 8 printable handouts that I created for last week’s LTUE event for writers and artists. Each handout covers a different topic, for a variety of … Read more
FIFTH GRADERS LIKE COMICS
THE ARTICLE (Whoops! I hope the title of this post didn’t give away the ending.) Huffington Post columnist Dave Schedit recently interviewed a class of fifth graders about comics, where he asked questions like “What is it about comics that you like?” and “Is the story or art more important to you?” What follows is … Read more
SELF-PUBLISHING
Here’s an interesting article I read on self-publishing–specifically on self-publishing comics. Although I don’t agree with everything Stef says, and I certainly don’t work in the same format, size, run, etc. she did, a lot of the information is extremely useful for beginners. It’s a great overview of what really goes into self-publishing a comic, … Read more
