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I Don’t Remember the Weekend…
…but I’m holding a comic apparently done by my hand. Cleanup and scanning to commence soon! Update: Looks like I can piece together my weekend through local news articles, like this one from the Columbia Missourian: “Comic artists burn the midnight oil for 24 Hour Comics Day.” Update 2: And… Read more“I Don’t Remember the Weekend…”
I’d Like My Comics With Jam, Please
24 Hour Comics is an international event where cartoonists draw one page an hour for 24 straight hours. It’s grueling, but sounds like a lot of fun! Last year I suddenly thought about doing it a week after the official day so I was bummed. This year I was all… Read more“I’d Like My Comics With Jam, Please”
DC comics is having a comics contest through their new Zuda Comics label: the prizes are various amounts of cash. Sign me up! There are rules to follow: the comic for the contest is to be 8 pages of 800×600 pixels. The comic can’t be shown anyplace other than their… Read more“”
The World’s Greatest Drug Czar
Coca, though it is a forbidden to even bring a tea bag’s worth to the United States*, is actually a folk cure-all that has no narcotic effects without extensive processing. In rural communities, coca is one of the elements that sponsor social cohesion as well as spirituality. An ethnography, The… Read more“The World’s Greatest Drug Czar”
We Have a Winner!
Fellow cartoonist Winter told me about Inkscape, an open source vector program. It does everything I use in Illustrator, but for free! I whipped up a traced image with a speech balloon in around ten minutes using it for the first time. I am definitely impressed. {I traced an old… Read more“We Have a Winner!”
Trying New Things
My exploration into cheaper programs for comic making has been mostly fruitful. Running GIMP via X11 works very well. It’s way faster than Photoshop CS2, and I’d say favorably comparable to the CS3 beta I had been using. Rapidweaver turned out to be a lot more like iWeb than Dreamweaver…. Read more“Trying New Things”
Kristin is Into Details
Me: I have this new character. Her name is Invincigirl. She’s invincible to everything. She can’t be crushed, suffocated, starved, etc. Kristin: Can she break bones? Me: No. Kristin: Can she bleed? Me: No. Kristin: Can she age? Me: Um, I haven’t thought of that. Kristin: Maybe she ages slower… Read more“Kristin is Into Details”
More Issues! The Good Kind!
The first “scene” of Keeley: Comic Hero Extraordinaire #3 is up. Two scenes, really, as the first scene is one page. It’s neatoriffic: go check it out!
Whatever Happened to Issue 3?
Believe it or not, issue 3 has been snowed out until now. The opening of issue 3 takes place at the Columbia Public Library. I wanted to get some good photo references but it’s been snowing and cloudy for most of the past two months. Today it was finally sunny… Read more“Whatever Happened to Issue 3?”