Hey, a new comic! This one is another collaboration that had Wes Black (Two of a Vine) writing and me drawing. It was also my first real crack at doing everything digitally. I experimented with Manga Studio a couple other times in stuff like Film Punks, but now I’m really trying to get the hang of it and learn how to make it a faster and more satisfying process.
Here’s a quick self-indulgent post, which pretty much describes every post on a personal blog, I guess. Some of you may recall the Bloodborne comic I posted back in April. Well, I was just flipping through a sketchbook to get to a clean piece and I came across the original thumbnail for the first page of that one, so I thought I’d share it.
I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing, but this definitely shows how slavish I can be to a thumbnail once I’ve decided what layout to go with. I did the comic itself in ink (Micron pen, probably) on regular printer paper before scanning it and coloring it in Photoshop. Here’s a little before and after thumb vs. final for those interested.
I have no idea what I did with the second page thumb, or if I even made one!
I was visiting home this past weekend, so of course I had to dig through all my old stuff for a wave of nostalgia. This time I discovered some things I had been trying to find for a long time, including some of my very first comics. Thus, I present to you—hailing from I’m guessing sometime around 1990, when I was 9 or 10—The Stupendous Stinger!
Or, rather, MARVEL COMICS presents…
I played the crap out of From Software’s Bloodborne recently and really loved it. So here’s a short comic about it!
I updated the Slime page on the site today, because the comic is now available at a couple more shops! In addition to Forbidden Planet NYC and Desert Island (Brooklyn), you can pick up Slime at JHU Comics in NYC and Staten Island.
There are under 10 copies left now, so grab it quick, either in person or on the online shop!
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This past weekend was MoCCA Fest in New York, which meant multiple levels of way too many cool comics to buy. I wasn’t able to scratch the surface of what I wanted, but I had a really good time, picked up a few choice comics, and dug the new venue way more than last year’s.
Here’s some of what I grabbed:
Clockwise from top left: A.T. Pratt‘s Good Garbage, Rob Corradetti‘s Artists of Today, Youth in Decline and Jillian Tamaki‘s Frontier #7, Andy Ristaino‘s Night of the Living Vidiots, and Wren McDonald‘s What’s in Brick’s Bag.
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