Monday, June 27, 2011
Shelby County map - line art
I'm working on an ad map of Shelby County, for University Graphics / Creative Concepts. Here's some line art, inked with colored lines in Manga Studio, so that I can easily do self-lining on the roads and such.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Dillard's Doodles: New Stuff
Dillard's Doodles: New Stuff: "I recently painted a cartoon map and made caricature of a beloved lizard for The Summer Reading Program at Vestavia Hills Library. The ..."
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Party at DS Art
From our fellow SHC Don Stewart:
Mark your calendars for the quarter-century bash at the DS Art Studio, Thursday, June 30th at 5 pm. That’s in downtown Homewood, Alabama, at the corner of 28th and Crescent Avenues. (Come early to beat the rush hour traffic!)
DS Art ® – The Visual Humor of Don Stewart
2805 Crescent Avenue
Birmingham, AL 35209
800-372-7864
www.dsart.com
Mark your calendars for the quarter-century bash at the DS Art Studio, Thursday, June 30th at 5 pm. That’s in downtown Homewood, Alabama, at the corner of 28th and Crescent Avenues. (Come early to beat the rush hour traffic!)
DS Art ® – The Visual Humor of Don Stewart
2805 Crescent Avenue
Birmingham, AL 35209
800-372-7864
www.dsart.com
Friday, May 20, 2011
Recent Roundup
Heighdy ho!
I've just gone and collected a few pieces from some of the blogs, webcomics, and deviantART pages of our fellow SHC's. (You guys should come and post stuff here more often yourselves, just to keep the blog alive.)
I can't take the time to turn the following names into links. If you want to see more from any of these great Alabama cartoonists -- and find a whole boatload MORE Alabama cartoonists, to boot -- consult the alphabetical list HERE.
Jonathan Hooks
Jonathan Hooks
jenX
jenX
Alison Marceau
Alison Marceau
Mark Martin
Mark Martin
I've just gone and collected a few pieces from some of the blogs, webcomics, and deviantART pages of our fellow SHC's. (You guys should come and post stuff here more often yourselves, just to keep the blog alive.)
I can't take the time to turn the following names into links. If you want to see more from any of these great Alabama cartoonists -- and find a whole boatload MORE Alabama cartoonists, to boot -- consult the alphabetical list HERE.
Jonathan Hooks
Jonathan Hooks
jenX
jenX
Alison Marceau
Alison Marceau
Mark Martin
Mark MartinWednesday, May 11, 2011
Chris Garrison's Cartooning Workshop
Forstall Art Center of Birmingham will be hosting a one-day cartooning workshop, taught by me, cartoonist Chris Garrison (creator of Zoo Laffs and founder of the Salty 'Ham Cartooneestas). As you draw, I'll help you hone your basic cartooning skills: construction, line of action, silhouette, and expression. As the day progresses, I'll discuss inking, character design, appeal, flair, staging, and storytelling.
You are strongly encouraged to bring your sketchbooks and drawings with you for some informative input. Whether you want to draw superheroes, manga, or breakfast cereal mascots, this workshop will help you to become the BEST cartoonist you can be!
Ages 16 and up.
$75 gets you in, and a very nice set of supplies comes with the deal. And lunch is included!
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
10am - 3pm
at the
Forstall Art Center
(at the Palisades, in Birmingham)
For all the Salty 'Ham Cartooneestas reading this: If you think I might be able to help you improve your skills, come take the workshop! Or if you're not into it, but you know somebody who might be, please tell them about it.
Here are some more samples of my work.
Free Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book Day at Kingdom Comics (May 7th, 2011) went well this year. Lots of super-heroes were there:
And the promoters of the 2012 Alabama Phoenix Festival were selling tickets and T-shirts.
Also, SHC's Chris Rosko and myself had tables with a bunch of other area cartoonists -- folks who oughtta be Salty 'Hams, but haven't joined up yet: Andy Gray, James Hill, Kinch Raby, II, Lysa Shin, and ex-pat Sarah White. Other potential enlistees present were publisher Keven Gardner and writer Cam Crowder. I'll have to bug all these folks about getting on our ever growing list of Alabama talents.
And the promoters of the 2012 Alabama Phoenix Festival were selling tickets and T-shirts.
Also, SHC's Chris Rosko and myself had tables with a bunch of other area cartoonists -- folks who oughtta be Salty 'Hams, but haven't joined up yet: Andy Gray, James Hill, Kinch Raby, II, Lysa Shin, and ex-pat Sarah White. Other potential enlistees present were publisher Keven Gardner and writer Cam Crowder. I'll have to bug all these folks about getting on our ever growing list of Alabama talents.
Friday, April 29, 2011
a few page roughs
Some pages from a project I'm collaborating on. Not sure how far we'll get, we may come to ruin on the usual shipwreck of creative differences.
Anyways, it's more or less a parody, and so far it seems to me I'm leaning a bit on the Don Simpson (Megaton Man) look (although those character proportions are fairly common, he maybe just exaggerated them to extremes.)
Anyways, it's more or less a parody, and so far it seems to me I'm leaning a bit on the Don Simpson (Megaton Man) look (although those character proportions are fairly common, he maybe just exaggerated them to extremes.)
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Alabama Phoenix Festival
There's something called the Alabama Phoenix Festival coming up in 2012. I think it's being put together by the folks at Kingdom Comics, but I'm not totally sure. Here's the festival's OFFICIAL PAGE. And here's their FACEBOOK PAGE.
The official page doesn't really explain the festival, but I got this from their facebook page:
Although it's taking place on Highway 280 in late May of 2012, the official page says the festival will actually debut on May 7th (Free Comic Book Day) of this year, somewhere in the same strip mall with Kingdom Comics. Various guests will be there, and you can read about them HERE. And that will also be your first chance to get festival memberships and T-shirts. At a special rate, even!
The official page doesn't really explain the festival, but I got this from their facebook page:
The Alabama Phoenix Festival is a fan-based convention featuring comics, science-fiction, fantasy, and much more. We will host a variety of guests, including media guests from film and television, authors, and comic book creators. In addition, there will also be gaming, art show, programming tracks, and expo hall. So come and join us on May 25-27, 2012 at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center, located on Hwy 280 just south of the Colonnade.
Although it's taking place on Highway 280 in late May of 2012, the official page says the festival will actually debut on May 7th (Free Comic Book Day) of this year, somewhere in the same strip mall with Kingdom Comics. Various guests will be there, and you can read about them HERE. And that will also be your first chance to get festival memberships and T-shirts. At a special rate, even!
[edit! -- It turns out that the Alabama Phoenix Festival is NOT a Kingdom Comics production. Kingdom is just supporting it and doing the comic book track for them, like they did Imagicon. The backers of APF are Steve Charleson and Tim Stacks.]
Monday, April 18, 2011
Recent Roundup
Hey hey hey.
I've just gone and collected a few pieces from some of the blogs, webcomics, and deviantART pages of our fellow SHC's. (You guys should come and post stuff here more often yourselves, just to keep the blog alive.)
I can't take the time to turn the following names into links. If you want to see more from any of these great Alabama cartoonists -- and find a whole boatload MORE Alabama cartoonists, to boot -- consult the alphabetical list HERE.
Chris Fason
Chris Fason
Chris Garrison
Chris Garrison
Jamison Harper
Jamison Harper
James Hislope
James Hislope
I've just gone and collected a few pieces from some of the blogs, webcomics, and deviantART pages of our fellow SHC's. (You guys should come and post stuff here more often yourselves, just to keep the blog alive.)
I can't take the time to turn the following names into links. If you want to see more from any of these great Alabama cartoonists -- and find a whole boatload MORE Alabama cartoonists, to boot -- consult the alphabetical list HERE.
Chris Fason
Chris Fason
Chris Garrison
Chris Garrison
Jamison Harper
Jamison Harper
James Hislope
James HislopeThursday, April 7, 2011
Ye Olde Cartoonist's iNkwell of Irony (#358)
My tween-age plans to buy multiple copies of Spawn #4 and resell them years later to fund my anticipated playboy lifestyle have come to naught.
The comics gold turns out to be, rather, the "art" comics I bought during the angsty, idealistic period of post-college-dropout drift. Comics I had no intention whatsoever of profiting from. Other than to rip off their ideas for my own supposed Staggering Works of Artistic Genius.
If I'm to believe the prices on Amazon, it's possible to sell early comics by Chris Ware, Ivan Brunetti, and a few lesser lights for obscene amounts of money (relative to what I paid for them new.) As an "unknown" seller I might have a hard go of it though, that's the one potential blot in my otherwise perfect ink line of hope.
If only my former self had ditched those silly art-hero illusions and coldly calculated that some obscure 90s cartoonists would be the belles of the ball in 10 to 15 years. And that their early work would soon be desperately sought by collectors who spurned them when the World had not yet wrapped them in the swaddling of its esteem. I could have cleaned out the old Optic Nerve store of every last "Jimmy Corrigan Issue Six" on the racks, while the mass of unseeing Birminghamsters blithely passed them by.
Of course most of what I have has lost value from its cover price. It's not even worth the hassle of Amazon, what with shipping and handling, that I can see. I don't know how some people apparently make money on there listing stuff for a few bucks. A subject for another Cartoonist's iNkwell, perhaps.
I also have some really terrible junk to get rid of. Look for it at the next meeting --- it's terrible, but it's free.
The comics gold turns out to be, rather, the "art" comics I bought during the angsty, idealistic period of post-college-dropout drift. Comics I had no intention whatsoever of profiting from. Other than to rip off their ideas for my own supposed Staggering Works of Artistic Genius.
If I'm to believe the prices on Amazon, it's possible to sell early comics by Chris Ware, Ivan Brunetti, and a few lesser lights for obscene amounts of money (relative to what I paid for them new.) As an "unknown" seller I might have a hard go of it though, that's the one potential blot in my otherwise perfect ink line of hope.
If only my former self had ditched those silly art-hero illusions and coldly calculated that some obscure 90s cartoonists would be the belles of the ball in 10 to 15 years. And that their early work would soon be desperately sought by collectors who spurned them when the World had not yet wrapped them in the swaddling of its esteem. I could have cleaned out the old Optic Nerve store of every last "Jimmy Corrigan Issue Six" on the racks, while the mass of unseeing Birminghamsters blithely passed them by.
Of course most of what I have has lost value from its cover price. It's not even worth the hassle of Amazon, what with shipping and handling, that I can see. I don't know how some people apparently make money on there listing stuff for a few bucks. A subject for another Cartoonist's iNkwell, perhaps.
I also have some really terrible junk to get rid of. Look for it at the next meeting --- it's terrible, but it's free.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Pat Wachter Bowl 5
Here's some new poster art, drawn by our fellow SHC's James Hislope and Tim Spinosi.
Or perhaps you'd rather view it this way:
Or perhaps you'd rather view it this way:
Friday, April 1, 2011
Recent Roundup Redux
Hey, all. We have so many cartooneestas now that it takes me way too long to put together a Recent Roundup post. So, welcome to the new version. Now, in each Recent Roundup, I'll just pick pieces from SOME of our fellow SHC's, instead of from as many as possible. In this way, maybe I can do them more often.
Now then.
I've just gone and collected a few pieces from some of the blogs and deviantART pages of our fellow SHC's. (You guys should come and post stuff here more often yourselves, just to keep the blog alive.)
I can't take the time to turn the following names into links. If you want to see more from any of these great Alabama cartoonists -- and find a whole boatload MORE Alabama cartoonists, to boot -- consult the alphabetical list HERE.
Derek Anderson
Derek Anderson
Tom Briscoe
Tom Briscoe
Jessica Campbell
Howard Cruse
Howard Cruse
Now then.
I've just gone and collected a few pieces from some of the blogs and deviantART pages of our fellow SHC's. (You guys should come and post stuff here more often yourselves, just to keep the blog alive.)
I can't take the time to turn the following names into links. If you want to see more from any of these great Alabama cartoonists -- and find a whole boatload MORE Alabama cartoonists, to boot -- consult the alphabetical list HERE.
Derek Anderson
Derek Anderson
Tom Briscoe
Tom Briscoe
Jessica Campbell
Howard Cruse
Howard CruseSunday, March 27, 2011
My Very Big News
Wow! Starting now, I have my own weekly web comic! It's called Zoo Laffs, and it'll appear on DummComics.com (the greatest site for web comics of all). A new installment will come out every Sunday. Click HERE to see my first comic!
*note to parents: DummComics isn't always okay for the kiddies.
*note to parents: DummComics isn't always okay for the kiddies.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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