Have you been reading Becky Cloonan and Vasilis Lolos‘s new blogs? You should be. They talk about all sorts of stuff: livin’ it large in Athens, Greece; being STRONG enough to DRAW COMICS; obsessing about Yanni; and getting EXCITED! about COMICS! Some things never change, I suppose.
So check ‘em out. Becky’s blog and Vasilis’s blog.
Whoa.
Animator Dean Dodrill has taken Michel Gagné’s character Zed, and animated him. It looks fantastic!
Oh, and if you’d like to see an early preview of Michel’s story for Flight 4, you might want to check out his Saga of Rex page…
Boy, Pascal Campion sure knows how to get a fella in the mood for the holidays…
(and if you need more holiday cheer, Santa-style, you can always check out this and this, to say nothing of his Feliz Navidad animation.)
Happy holidays, everyone!
A small selection of Matthew Woodson‘s prints are now available for purchase, care of Thumbtack Press.
In case you weren’t aware of it, Matthew has been blogging for the past couple of months, over here. Definitely worth checking out if you’re interested in process and pretty pictures and all that other good stuff.
Don’t forget, the Imaginary Spaces opening is today! You can check out a few more of the gorgeous pieces that will be featured in the gallery show by:
- Chris Appelhans
- and Israel Sanchez (you can also check out a colour comp of this painting at The Those Guys blog)
Matt Forsythe is now selling the second print collection of his Ojingogo comics online! He’s also reprinted the first book of this (twice) Eisner nominated comic, so if you missed out on picking one up the first time, now’s your chance. The quality of these books is outstanding, so you definitely know you’ll be getting your money’s worth (plus, he’s throwing in free sketches for all orders).
Swing by his shop page to order the books, or read it all online.
At last! The first book of Les enfants d’ailleurs by Bannister and Nykko has arrived! Bannister has posted more photos of the BD in its final form here. Les enfants d’ailleurs will be released in Europe on January 3rd, 2007. If your local comic store imports BDs, this would definitely be worth checking out!
You can also preview a few pages from the book here and here.
The inimitable creator of Spiral Bound (from Top Shelf Productions) and The Unsinkable Walker Bean (forthcoming from Scholastic Books) has a nicely designed new website, complete with a generously stocked gallery and assurances of more cool stuff to come.
Want a preview of the cover for Flight 4? Kazu has just posted the cover image to his website, which you can view here.
This piece, along with others by Chris Appelhans, Khang Le and Israel Sanchez just to name a few, will be on display at the Imaginary Spaces gallery show at Nucleus, which opens this Saturday the 16th, from 7-11 PM. Be sure to check it out, and don’t forget to visit the Nucleus site for the full details.
Kazu has also contributed a piece to the White Elephant Show (of which Rad Sechrist is also a part of), which opens to the public on the 16th at Mauve, running from 4-11 PM. All proceeds from the sales of the original artwork on display will be donated to the Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Full details here.
From Jen Wang’s livejournal:
Quick, short notice! “Monster Sex” prints up for their own show at Amber Lounge, San Francisco December 14th, this Thursday night! After my last class even! It’s nice that even after all this time and how much I’ve milked them, I still had a lot of fun enlarging and framing each one. It’s a bar show so doors open early and close late but I’m probably gonna be there for 8pm on until I’m bored enough.
Sounds like it’ll be a grand time. Full details here. You can also view these prints online at Jen’s website.
Chris Butcher has just posted an interesting analysis of Jeff Smith’s Bone covers, primarily charting the evolution of the cover design for the first book, Out From Boneville. It’s fascinating stuff.
Well, it’s official — Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman are now married! Congratulations to them both!
Being the lovers of comics that they are, they even put together a wedding anthology to give out to the wedding guests! It’s all so very exciting. You can check out a couple of pieces from the anthology by Clio Chiang and Vera Brosgol, as well as the comic that Dave used to propose to Raina, “How we got Engaged!”
(the image at the top of this post is a panel from the comic that Bannister and I collaborated on for their anthology).
Apologies again for the prolonged silence ’round these parts — everyone’s been really busy working on their own projects these days and we’re also deep into the production of Flight 4 at the moment, but let’s take some time get caught up on some news and comics, shall we?
Oh, and one last item: it appears that Flight 3 has been nominated for a Cybil award (the Children’s and YA Bloggers’ Literary Awards) in the graphic novel category, alongside other authors such as Gene Yang, Alison Bechdel, Raina Telgemeier, Hope Larson and Amy Kim Ganter, just to name a few. Fine company indeed!
