Cartooning

See you Sunday at the Maine Comics Arts Festival! I'll be sharing a table with my chum John Klossner. I will have a MeCAF debut comic. Be the first person on the planet to buy one!Many great people will be there. Admission is $5 per person. Kids under 12 get in free.

Check it out comics and cartoon lovers. Dash has got something to satisfy all of your drawn desires. He’s a comics making, animating machine ready to lay it out on the movie screen this Tuesday night in Brooklyn. The Light Industry event info is linked here from Dash’s blog. Dash will be screening his own work and finishing off the evening with a screening of Bobby’s Girl, “an obscure, dreamy anime about a motorcyclist that I think is amazing,” says Dash. Dash has been working on his feature length animated film and only taking breaks to animate music videos, segments of documentaries, and draw like, ten comic books. Two of Dash’s recent animated projects are above, the top is a trailer for his new comic New School, and the next is the short/music video Seraph, with music by Sigur Ros.

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No one is going to see these, really. I mean, except for you guys who are poking around this blog.These are some research sketches for the "Please Sir, I want some more" scene in Oliver Twist. I am doing these doodles to prep for a cartoon. The cartoon, which I'll draw later today, will be drawn in a much simpler style.For me, to have sketched these Victorian characters first gets me comfortable for the cartoon finish later. By drawing all of the detail in these sketches (which the client will not see), I learn what to leave out in the finish. I think this illustrates why there are not zillions of people who draw for a living. There's a lot of work behind the scenes. Ink on 110 lb. acid free recycled paper.

Ward "Energize!" Sutton time warps TREKS old and new in his latest titled "The Shatner Menagerie."

From a series of feature segments by Greg Moody, the Critic-at-Large for Colorado's News9. He traces the history of comics and the industry as it was way, way back in the 80s.Thanks to WhyTheHorseFace for recording these on his VCR way back then and uploading the clips 27 years later.

A designer by the name of Butcher Billy combines his music heroes of the 1980s with his favorite comics in this "post-punk/new wave superhero" gallery (with links to t-shirts of these images) on Behance.From Comixace's Tumblr (Heidi MacDonald) who got it from Neil Gaiman's Tumblr.

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Andy Gabrysiak and Ray Domzalski sent Meathaus over two zines from Detroit, Caves Only, by Andy, and What is This Black?, by Andy and Ray. You can definitely pick up both of these items at the store. You’re going to want to see the full twelve drawings of Caves Only and the black on black printing and crisp cutting, folding and stapling of the mini split What is This Black?. Also get into these blogs: Ray ‘n’ Andy.

Although previous issues of RAV have had funny and dirty parts and pages that were super fine to look at I think this spread of Juice in the new RAV8 that Mickey sent down to Meathaus where he is reading a ULINE catalog is the best because I relate to Juice deeply here. It’s a personal thing. You’d understand if you also had special feelings about packing tape, corrugated boxes, premium stretch wrap systems and deluxe warehouse brooms. Check it out, Mickey Z keeps making so many comic books, look at previous letters she generously sent over and now that you know all about them, go to Mickey Z’s website and see what you can get there and look at there. Mickey Z dot org and the store.