Houdini and Holmes
The fantastic Polly Guo is selling self-published Sherlock Holmes comics! She’s only doing 50 copies, so hurry! Damn it looks fine.
Bevan
Parka Blogs Artbook Reviews
I’m not sure if everyone’s already aware or not, but Parka Blogs is a fantastic resource for those of you who like to collect artbooks. If you’ve wondered if you should buy an artbook, but have been deceived by nice covers in the past, see if it’s been reviewed on […]
Whirring Blender Design Challenge
Check out Carly Monardo’s Whirring Blender Design Challenge, where she chooses a subject matter and an illustrator whose style she admires, and puts the two in a blender with magic and unicorns. The end result is a beautiful and creative milkshake of rainbows and good illustration. (The pic shown is […]
Picture Book Report 1
Here’s an absolutely fantastic project for anyone who likes books or pictures, or books with pictures, or pictures about books, or any permutation thus! Picture Book Report is a project where 15 wonderful illustrators choose and illustrate 15 books. The best books. Awesome books. There are posting schedules and everything, […]
Daymare Town
I’m posting this not only because the key to my heart is hidden inside the vault, which is behind the painting which has to be moved with the screwdriver hidden underneath the box in the frame bed that has to be opened with a secret code, but also because this […]
Observations on the American Manga Market 1
by Aliena Shoemaker There was a time when the local Borders was the only store in my city that carried manga (Japanese comics) in the trade paper back format. The titles the store carried were limited to a grand total of about five. The titles included had either been readily […]
Reader Controlled Art 1
The Strength of the Comic Medium By Bevan Thomas In his screenwriting guidebook Story, award-winning screenwriter Robert McKee discusses the relative strengths of various storytelling mediums, and deduces that live theatre is the medium best-suited for detailed dialogue, novels and short stories for character introspection, and movies for visual subtext […]
Cloudscape Comic Battle! 12
Do you have what it takes to take on Cloudscape’s finest in a no-holds-barred* comics throwdown? This Wednesday you’re going to get your chance, at the first ever CLOUDSCAPE COMIC BATTLE. You will have ONE WEEK to come up with a short comic in response to our devilishly clever and […]
Vancouver Comic Jam: Olympic Edition!
When: Saturday, February 20th, 2010. 8pm until midnight(ish). Where: The Wallflower http://www.thewallflowermoderndiner.com ( 2420 Main St, Vancouver (Right next door to Rx Comics ) Who: Anyone who is of legal drinking age is invited. How Much: No admission fee. Bring your own pencils/pens. Paper is provided. The restaurant provides their […]
Open Call for Artists! 1
Our next book will be a science fiction book with a theme of “machines”! We’re looking for more serious stories, commentaries on society, morals, and dark agendas. Pages will be black and white or grayscale, sized at 4.5 x 7.4375 bit you get full bleed! Artists need to be residents […]