Gene Yang On America.Gov
Scott McCloud links to an interview with American Born Chinese creator, Gene Yang, on America.gov:
A Little Weekend Hype: Eerie Cuties
Gisèle Lagacé, who past webcomic work includes Ménage à 3, Penny & Aggie, and Cool Cat Studio, has a new webcomic called Eerie Cuties:
What is EC? Well, it’s comedy horror meets cute. The cast consists of teenage monsters in high school. As strips go by, you’ll learn a bit more about what makes this school "different." The header image already gives you hints to the type of monsters you’ll see in EC. You’ll meet them, and the rest of the cast, slowly but surely. 🙂
Tomorrow is Drawing Day
I hadn’t heard of this one before but Journalista! linked to tomorrow’s (June 6th) Drawing Day. Charley Parker (creator of the pioneering webcomic Argon Zark and blogger at Lines and Colors) writes:
Drawing Day is an event initiated last year by Mick Gow, creator of the Rate My Drawings site, with the simple intention of drawing attention (if you’ll excuse the expression) to art by encouraging artists worldwide to create 1 million drawings on a single day, and coordinate, cooperate and share the experience through a variety of social networking sites.
Participants can upload and share their drawings, or even draw directly online, through sites like deviantART, YouTube, Red Bubble, Drawspace, Rate My Drawings, Flickr and a number of others. (It’s worth investigating the list of participating sites just to see if some of them are new and of interest to you.)
A Few Things Worth Noting Today
NEW BOOKS
Brian McFadden’s new collection of snarky-topical politics-to-pop culture comic Big Fat Whale in print is out — pick up your copy of Fun Stuff for Dum-Dums AND David Willis’ Roomies!: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Beer is now in stock – so get to clicking and buying!
FREE PREVIEW
Scott McCloud notes that the first 100 pages of his Zot! print collection is free to read online.
COMIC SOLICATION
The online magazine Narrative is interested in graphic art submissions (they mean comics!) for which they offer to pay in real money. No experience with them — if anyone has had anything published with them please let us all know how it went.
You Should Have Read These Links This Morning Already
CONVENTIONS
Fleen has the breakdown on where the webcomics at for this year’s MoCCA 2009.
INTERVIEWS
A good interview with cartoonist Kate Beaton. She did get web-famous pretty quickly, didn’t she? Also another good interview with Beaton at Comixology.
Daily Cross Hatch has an interview with Achewood‘s Chris Onstad.
Comics Worth Reading has an interview with Tara Tallan of Galaxion.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
The K Chronicles asks cartoonists why can’t we be friends?
Rick Marshall reports that several members of ACT-I-VATE, including Josh Neufeld, contributed to last night’s ABC News special Earth 2100.
Brigid Alverson has a good article about her Zuda rule: making sure the reader can make sense of the comic in the first 8 pages.
A Bit More Hype: Wasted Talent
I really like a lot of Angela Melick’s Wasted Talent. It’s kind of a journal comic but a little stranger-than-life at times and much tauter in execution than the typical pace of a journal comic. The latest one about how her job is like an RPG is classic.
You upgrade your equipment with — Chair of Awesome Rollingness!
Hark! It’s Brunel and Stovie
Ah Tuesday! One day after Monday; too many days before Friday. Our top story today — aAfter much public demand, James Turner reveals his new comic: Brunel and Stovie. Hip Hip Hurrah!
CRAFT
Joey Weiser shows you the process from scripts to finished pages.
MILESTONES
Heroes of a Lesser Earth hits 500 strips.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Checking out Heroes Inc – art looks good. (Which reminds me we once did a list of superhero comics on the web; feel free to update it!)
BUSINESS
Kickstarter looks like another vehicle for pre-funding projects that conceivably could be of use to web/comic creators.
NOT COMICS
Kris Straub and David Malki! are doing a talk show.
And as always, be sure to read Journalista!, Webcomics.com and Fleen for more links and stories. I tend not to link as much to those sites anymore simply because it’s easier for you to go read them yourself.
Welcome to June
Thanks to Onezumi for a great cover piece for this month. Be sure to check out her comic Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos.
Brad Guigar has been posting a number of useful tips for creators over at webcomics.com. You really ought to have that site bookmarked by now.
Also everyone seems to be linking to Rich Johnston’s new comics gossip site so what the hey – it’s called Bleeding Cool.
Check Out Slyvan Migdal’s Rho
Rho is a great magical realism style comic about a teenage girl. It careems between real life hassles of having divorced parents and wonderfully loopy sequences where realism… stretches out a bit, including a cockroach/slime demon and a videogame inspired trek.
Created by Slyvan Migdal in 2006, it is also available at a book. I had missed it until this week – Migdal has been creating comics and posting them online for nearly a decade now (earlier work includes Spork) – but noticed a link to it at the very new comic Curvy. Migdal is apparently the creator of the NSFW (but funny and interesting) comic Curvy under the nom de plume of Mary Magdalene.
MoCCA NEXT Weekend – UPDATED
Just a huge number of great artists will be at this year’s MoCCA in New York. Gary Tyrrell points out some of the webcomic-friendly folks on that list as well as some of the panels not to miss.
UPDATE: IT’s NEXT WEEKEND Dangit. (Never post while on cold medicine…) MoCCA 2009 is June 6-7th.
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