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.)
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 Cruse
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