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Continue ReadingJeffrey Brown redraws JRJr
As a drawing exercise for his art class, Jeffrey Brown redraws John Romita Jr panels from UNCANNY X-MEN #192 with various materials.
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Ben Caldwell’s WONDER WOMAN pitch features unlikely slant
A version of Wonder Woman aimed at teen-aged girls and not 40-year-old men? That will never fly. BTW for everyone who is always wondering "How should a pitch look???" Here's an example. Of course, being able to draw as well as Ben Caldwell really helps.
Continue ReadingO’Malley’s lettering lessons
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia his blog, Bryann Lee O’Malley shades the wisdom of cartooning and good balloon flow: Try to avoid layouts that make as little sense as this one. Also try to avoid hiding your weak layouts with trickery, such as arbitrarily wider gutters (top right) or dropping panel borders to create the illusion [...]
Continue ReadingTodd Klein studies the HULK logo
Letterer supreme Todd Klein presents another one of his logo studies, this time looking at the HULK logo through time from Herb Trimpe's previously unknown contribution through the modern "exploded logos" worthy of Zaha Hadid.
Continue ReadingListen to John K
John K's blog is always entertaining, which is why we periodically dip in. In this post he explains some cartoonist warm-up exercises: "I strongly recommend to every growing cartoonist to do warm up exercises every day. Athletes warm up before stressing their stiff joints, musicians practice their scales every day before jumping right into their performances and I think cartoonists can benefit from limbering up their pencils and brains before they attack their work. I should follow this advice and I did this morning."
Continue ReadingI’m Comic Sans, As*hole.
Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.
Continue ReadingTwo very good pieces of advice
Two pieces of excellent advise from Brigid Alverson and Shaenon K. Garrity.
Continue ReadingJim Lee’s iPad art
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Chronic early adopter Jim Lee is already finger painting on his iPad, vuia Sketchpad Pro: Its fun and frustrating at the same time cuz half the time yer going this would be so easy to do by hand or wacom but was digging the primitive feeling of using yer hands. Another Joker [...]
Continue ReadingCARTOON COLLEGE documentary trailer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet CARTOON COLLEGE is a documentary by Tara Wray and Josh Melrod about the Centre for Cartoon Studies. They’ve just released a new trailer, and while the film’s not finished yet, it is looking good. There aren’t any titles or names in the trailer, so how many cartoonists can you recognize?
Continue ReadingThree for the letters: Twilight, Thoughts, Breath
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet More than a few interesting posts that discuss the lettering side of comics of late. At Comics Alliance, Chris Sims demonstrates the horrible, amateurish lettering style, that puts balloons right over the characters’ faces in the bajillion selling TWILIGHT: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL. This is kind of odd, since publisher Yen Press [...]
Continue ReadingColor Quandaries #2: The Barks Affair
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Excitement ran high on various message boards when an Amazon listing was found for The Carl Barks Collection Set 1, to be published by Gemstone. It’s here – a ten-volume hardback set collecting Carl Barks’ complete Disney comics cycle! Remastered in more exceptional quality and color than earlier editions, the great [...]
Continue ReadingColor Quandaries #1: Killing Joke
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThere’s a handsome new hardcover edition of THE KILLING JOKE by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland out, featuring remastered color by Bolland. PopCultureShock has done a side by side on the color, and some people, like Chris Butcher, find the new version less than compelling. This seems like a “changing tastes” thing. [...]
Continue ReadingEditing notes: Shonen Jump, Brevoort
Share this link on Facebook!TweetShonen Jump editor in chief Masahiko Ibaraki recalls his career, including the early years: Each editor is assigned a mangaka to work with. The first mangaka assigned to me was Akira Miyashita. I feel as if my training as an editor came from working with the mangaka, not my superiors. When I [...]
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