Process

And it costs about $20 a year. Priceless.

As a drawing exercise for his art class, Jeffrey Brown redraws John Romita Jr panels from UNCANNY X-MEN #192 with various materials.

Via Hairy Green Eyeball II:

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.

Via 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...

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.

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."

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.

Two pieces of excellent advise from Brigid Alverson and Shaenon K. Garrity.

If you could draw "Lucky", you could take this course! ComiCrazy has been posting the famed lesson plan of the Famous Artists Cartooning Course, and only those who can hold a Speedball need apply....

Tomer Hanuka explains his approach to the cover for The Kiss Murder: Illustration is like acting. you need to invest a strand of authentic emotion to make it work. otherwise it feels artificial. So you...

Dash Shaw suggests art schools "Teach House Styles": The more outdated and inapplicable the house style is, the better. They only have the understanding; they're not being bred for a specific job that currently exists. Comments...