Category: Comics
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Free Comic Book Day!
Update: This year’s Free Comic Book Day! is past, but you may still find this post worth reading, both for my suggestions for why comic books may be more interesting that you suspect, and my introduction to comic book specialty shops. Here are some photos from the event at Captain Blue Hen in Delaware from…
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Teshkeel Comics &
Rubicon multimediaIf you are anything like me, you stared in slack-jawed disbelief as you witnessed the shameful debacle of the now infamous Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. It was shameful on both sides of the “conflict”. On the side of the cartoonists involved and the Danish paper that hired them to draw the cartoons, it…
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The Comics Curmudgeon
Apartment 3-G, 3/22/06 OK. I know I’m dating myself by saying this, but I remember when newspaper comics used to actually be funny. No! Really! I’m serious! It used to be that you could open the comics page of a major metropolitan newspaper like the The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Bulletin, or The Baltimore Sun and…
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Flight 3 preview
I have a rant and then a rave. First, let me go on record as saying that I like superhero comics. I really do. I’ve been reading them for years and I’ll continue to read them. There is some great stuff being done in the genre. It’s just that there are… so many of them.…
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Enrico Casarosa
As artists there are those of us who wear many hats (no, no, I mean other than at those weird loft parties…), taking on several styles or different types of visual art for different reasons; sometimes out of necessity to both make a living and pursue personal interests, sometimes out of a desire to be…
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Coloring Comics: Steve Hamaker Colors Bone
In yesterday’s post on drawing comics I pointed to some thumbnail to ink sequences Jeff Smith has posted of his working process for Bone. Thanks to some recent posts by Steve Hamaker, who is coloring the new Bone color editions for Scholastic Press, we can follow the process to its next step. Hamaker’s first blog…