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Guest Strip: Paul Abbamondi

After making the journal comic series MyLifeComics for about two years, Paul Abbamondi finally took the plunge into fiction. His webcomic Supertown follows the adventures of two best friends, Will and Kyle, who believe themselves to be their town’s only hope against the many nefarious villains that want to see it crumble.  He describes the project [...]

The Cross Hatch Dispatch 11.19.09

[Above, Crumby shoes. Below, Dispatch on the fritz.] Graphic NYC highlights the career of Peter Kuper, illustrator extraordinaire. Vans released a pair of R. Crumb slip-ons featuring Fritz the Cat. Don’t pretend they’re not awesome. Genghis Con invades Cleveland this Thanksgiving weekend. Pass the potatoes. Everything must go! Joe Kubert is auctioning off a mass amount [...]

Ochre Ellipse #3 by Jonas Madden-Connor

Ochre Ellipse #3 by Jonas Madden-Connor Family Style It’s difficult to say something new about the simplicity and preciousness of youth, but in Ochre Ellipse #3, I believe Jonas Madden-Connor has done it. Childhood is such a primitive, potent time in a person’s life; it’s no wonder that memories from that time eventually become lore.  In the hands of [...]

Ilustration Friday Topic

11.07.2009
This week's topic is:
blur
Suggested by Adam Darr

Illustration Friday Blog

All I Want for Christmas

From the mailbox: All I Want for Christmas Cards Project 2009 All I Want For Christmas Cards 2009 is a new festive project in support of the Bristol based charity ‘Young Bristol’. 20 local artists and illustrator’s have been commissioned to create a limited edition run of Christmas cards that are being sold as packs containing each [...]

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Best Use of Exploitative Tactics

Best Use of Exploitative Tactics by Curtis Baigent and Sean Dekkers. Never has animated fruit been so, er, uh, evocative. Posted by John Martz on Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog | Permalink | No comments Tags: Animation, food, video

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Comics Scholarship Blog

CFP: ImageNext (UF conference: Dec. 31; Mar. 26-27)

Just posted to the Comics Scholars Discussion List...

ImageNext:
Visions Past and Future Conference
University of Florida

March 26 and 27, 2010


The University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and sciences is pleased to announce the 2010 UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, "ImageNext: Visions Past and Future," which will be held in Gainesville, Florida on March 26 and 27. Guest speakers will include UCLA's David Kunzle (The History of the Comic Strip, Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer), John Porcellino (King Cat), Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix, That Kind of Girl) and University of Iowa’s Corey Creekmur (Director of the Institute for Cinema and Culture).

This year's conference will focus on "comics" - in their broadest sense, which includes animation, manga, anime, graphic novels, webcomics, political cartoons, and even some "fine art" - that explore human history and alternate histories. Comics discussed may include reimaginings of the past (both personal and cultural), projections of the future and revisions of pre-existing timelines, fictional or historical. Presentations could address comics that represent historical periods and/or genres (i.e. classic comics, steampunk, etc.) or the historical precedents of comics as we now understand them (i.e. political cartoons in nineteenth-century newspapers, narrative paintings, etc.).

Possible topics include but are not limited to:
  • comics in/as history (Rodolphe Topffer, George Cruikshank, John Leech)
  • comics as cultural records (Maus, Persepolis, contemporary comic strips and political cartoons)
  • biographical and autobiographical comics (Julie Doucet, Fun Home, With the Light, Epileptic)
  • historically based genres (e.g. steampunk and cyberpunk, (post-)apocalyptic narratives)
  • multiverses and alternate continuities (Crisis on Infinite Earths, 52, House of M, Marvel Zombies)
  • comic book continuity reboots (Marvel, Ultimate Universe, etc.)
  • the visual rhetoric of utopias and dystopias (Y The Last Man, Akira)
  • the revision and reimagination of the superhero (Watchmen, Kingdom Come, Marvels, Astro City)
  • comic adaptations and appropriations of literature ("Classic Comics," manga Shakespeare, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Submit an abstract (250-400 words) of your presentation by December 31, 2009. Send all submissions and questions to visions@grove.ufl.edu. Please include the words "Comics Conference" in your subject heading.

The conference will be held on the University of Florida campus.

Image credit: Dylan Horrocks, from the UF Comics Conferences website.
 

Le quatrième poulpe sort bientot de son trou

Le quatrième poulpe sort bientot de son trou

Salut à tous,
Merveilleux, splendides auteurs, dessinateurs, acteurs, musiciens,
etc... du Poulpe n°4 !
Si le coeur vous en dit, réservez-donc votre fin d'aprèm du mercredi 25
novembre pour venir festoyer (goûter-apéro) avec le Poulpe à Strasbourg
(au Troc'afé...) !
Et si l'envie vous prend de proposer une animation particulière, il
devrait déjà y avoir un peu de sérigraphie, de musique et danse folles
(merci Céd, cool !); les desinateurs, les acteurs... ont-ils envie de
dédicacer ? les autres de proposer un truc spécial ?... Tenez-nous au
courant de vos idées, par rapport au sujet (La f*o*/l/i*e*...) ou à vos
planches, et sinon, venez avec tous les enfants que vous pourrez !
Pour ceux qui n'habitent pas Strasbourg, le Poulpe ne peut, hélas, vous
défrayer pour venir à sa fiesta, mais vous loger oui, avec grand
plaisir... Le poulpe adore partager son antre.
Bien le bonsoir à tous, et à bientôt !

Ariane, secrétaire du Poulpe pour ce soir.

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Tales from the Pub: Hittin' the Skids

Tales from the Pub: Hittin' the Skids:

Here’s an extra large, bumper episode of Tales. Do you like my brothel? I have never been to a prostitute rental, but I used to go to Fyshwick a lot which is where all the hoes go. Actually…

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Akademi Samali @ Indonesia Book Fair



EXHIBITION: Main Lobby
4-8 November = Bazaar Komik-komik Indonesia

WORKSHOP KOMIK "GRATIS" :
Di Ruang " BOOK CINEMA" - Main LOBBY

Rabu, 4 November 2009 ( 14.00 - 16.00)
Membuat Design Karakter

Kamis, 5 November (14.00 - 16.00)
Membuat Komik Strip

Jumat, 6 November (14.00 - 16.00)
Membuat Flip Book (studio Lanting)

Sabtu, 7 November (14.00 - 16.00)
Dasar 2 Membuat komik jadi animasi (studio Lanting)

Daftarkan segera: akademisamali@yahoo.com
or telp ke Errie (021 996.26.056)

DISKUSI :
Assembly Hall, Jakarta Convention Center
Kamis 5 November 2009

Pk 19.00-20.30 WIB

"Jogja Dalam Komik Indonesia"

Pembicara :
1. Hasmi
2. Hikmat Darmawan

Moderator: Surjorimba

MInggu, 8 November (10.00 - 12.00)
Meet & Greet Komikus-komikus "Cintaku tertambat di Facebook"
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165180889689

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Trails - Last Meet 2009

Trails : Drawing Session - Last meet for 2009

Hiya friends - hope you can make it along!
Your host, Michael P Fikaris.

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Ooh, that sounds rather fun. Are there any links? I can think of a few people who might well be really into that as a possibilitiy. (When I'm not doing comics, I write erotica).
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Short answer: Nope. I edit the layouts. the line work and/or inks, and the colors -- it's a collaboration with the artist. Long answer: First, I pitch the story idea to the artist to see if it connects with them. Once I get their OK, I write what...
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The Example - Tom Taylor, Colin Wilson

When Melbourne playwright Tom Taylor decided he wanted to turn his 2005 short play The Example into a graphic novel, he got short shrift from illustrators he sought to contact on an internet forum. They were wary of getting involved with a speculative project. Taylor finally got a sympathetic response from artist Colin Wilson. It was stroke of luck. Wilson, an illustrator with more than 30 years of experience, has worked on cult offerings such as anti-hero Judge Dredd from British comic 2000 AD, Star Wars comics and French detective fiction. Finding an artist with a style to match the content is not easy, says Taylor, 34, a long-time devotee of speech bubbles and the picture grid. "With comics you're trying to create a full story and you can't do a really deep, philosophical, hard-hitting piece with a guy who draws a predominantly cartoony style; it doesn't work if it's Daffy Duck."

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D'Israeli, DRGBLZ . That's all you need, now make with the clicking.

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