Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
Ever get the feeling that you picked the wrong unmarketable degree? Now, now, don’t take that the wrong way. I just had this passing feeling that it would be great to study and dissect comics all day long. Have a look.
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
This is going to be an awesome comic – that is, if it comes out the way it is in my head.
I’ve got the line-up, and believe you me it was not very easy getting all this laid out. Before I could come up with such a simple list I had to do some major studying up on my history. If you’ve been following along with any of my other project posts then you may have noticed that the original title ’22 Lives of Marcus Trapp’ has been changed to 25 lives. I started with #1, actually I started with #2, and ended up with more lives then planned for. 25 rhymes with lives, so it still sounds good.
Is this enough of a teaser? Do you wonder what I’m going to do with all this?
Hey, in case you weren’t looking, ‘A Trip to Weeki Wachee’ just posted on the bean. Start reading now.
Well I succeeded in drawing out a mini-15 page story about a memory I have of going to Weeki Wachee water park as a kid. I am fairly certain they couldn’t get away with a rope swing into the river any more. I think the days of condoned childhood danger are over. And that makes no sense to you because you haven’t seen the story yet! Don’t worry. I am going to load it up and run it from my Comic page. Look back for it next week – I want to give some time to get the finished product in the mail for those that requested it.
The cover for my min-comic. I am assembling as I type. Well…not really, I can’t assemble and type at the same time. But, I’ll be assembling as soon as I stop typing and I was doing some assembling before I began typing. Yes.
Need a sandwich.
And after a hard morning of chores I am GO!
I talked about Scary Go Round by John Allison before. I love the stories. I love the style. Mr. Allison is a fantastic comic artist and story teller. At some point during my frequent visits to his site he managed to tug the strings of poor artist empathy in me while at the same time wooing me with pulpy and palpable copies of the comics I love online. I am endlessly impressed by artists who do not fill their time with solid reliable work the way I did. John Allison is just such a person. Instead he valiantly struggles on as an independent cartooner.
If you have not yet, you should check out Scary Go Round presents Bad Machinery. And use your reliable paychecks to pick from the fabulous things for sale in his shop.
Hey, I am currently waiting with baited breath to hear if my submission to GuruKitties ‘Once Upon a Time’ Fairy Tale comic anthology will be accepted. I put in a piece for the cover art as well.
This dude here is my wolf. Surprised right? – that I could choose a fairy tale with a wolf character in it? I mean, it’s not as if you couldn’t toss a rock in the land of fairy tales and hit a story with a wolf in it.
Anyway, I hope I hope I hope I get into it. I’m tired of all this success publishing articles and chapters professionally as a librarian. I want some success publishing as a comicker! I’m just kidding, I’m not tired of professional publishing success, but I do want some art/comicking/novelist publishing success too.
So, keep your fingers crossed for me!
Participate in the 2nd Annual Mini-Comics Day: May 26th, 2012 | Mini-Comics Day.
Do you know me well enough to know that I am already way too excited about this even though I’ve only known about it for 10 minutes? Of course I’m going to do it. You should do it too.
Now I gotta figure out what I’m drawing. And, should I print up multiples; do you want one? …without knowing what it’ll be yet?
A little while ago I may have mentioned Friends With Boys because it is an awesome comic that has now come out in honest to goodness touch-able form. Really, you can buy it from bookstores (if any have managed to survive around you) and hold it’s wood pulpiness in your hands. I did. One of the coolest things about Friends With Boys is that the author has more comics in pulpiness and intangible form. Check them out on faith erin hicks’ webpage » Web Comics.
I wish I had more afternoons to while away reading her comics, and then when I am done I wish she had more comics I could while myself away within. Faith Erin Hicks is awesome. I kid you not.
So…remember when I said I’d be updating all my comics (that’s three + the drawing board, so four technically) once a week? I suppose you noticed that I failed big time on that goal this month. I have been away from my sofa, the place where I do all my drawings, sitting cross legged with a stack of sketchbooks on my lap and NCIS playing on the TV. Instead, I have been spreading the good message of longer resource sharing due dates. And yeah, I know that makes no sense to people not in the business. But I gave 1/3 of a presentation at an international conference! I manned poster session at another conference! I made great improvements to my resume! I’ve been traveling way too much!
But enough excuses! This past weekend I was able to spend some quality time with my sofa. I have finished the first chapter of No Evil. I will scan this and get it running here for your pleasure and then I will concoct the next chapter with the story telling help of doomedmoviethon Richard. I have made great headway on the story of Ramone, Joy, and Gee (that’s Flip Side to you) as well as Levi Levi (which is also winding up a chapter). They will be back in force. And I finished a sketchbook. That means that I’ve got a whole bunch of newly scanned artwork just dying to worm it’s way into your eyeballs. Are you ready for all of this? Well?
I am both happy and sad that Little Heart: A Comic Anthology for Marriage Equality by Raighne Hogan — Kickstarter project reached it goals and closed. I tried my very darndest to be one of the people to help it get it’s remaining dollar needs and was stymied when I tried to complete the pledge through the amazon payments system Kickstarter is hooked up to. My account is all square now, I think and now it is too late. I am happy though. Because if any comic project deserves mass amounts of people supporting it, it is Little Heart.
So, did you hear? Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany | Books | guardian.co.uk. And I was only hoping that they’d been found earlier. They haven’t even been translated yet, but if they were, maybe I could’ve used one of them to create my fairy tale comic submission for gurukitty’s ‘Once upon a time anthology.‘ Ah well, I did something else. And if gurukitty doesn’t take it I will post it here for you guys to see. I liked the challenge.