Scott McCloud's Blog, page 27
July 8, 2010
Attention, Anyone Who's Ever Invited Me to an Event on Facebook and not Bothered to Mention What City it's in…
I'm going to be handing out HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS next Tuesday. Be there!
Location: Subway
Attention, Anyone Who's Ever "Invited" Me to an Event on Facebook and not Bothered to Mention What City it's in…
I'm going to be handing out HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS next Tuesday. Be there!
Location: Subway
July 7, 2010
Want to Make a 3D Comic?
Matthew Bogart writes with news of a simple 3D comic he made the old fashioned way: two frames which viewers can merge by crossing their eyes.
Not everyone can see the effect, but when I was a kid I loved making 3D pictures this way using colored pencils and small-grid graph paper, so this made me smile.
These days, the most efficient way to get this effect might be using layers in a program like Photoshop or Illustrator, but anyone, using even the simplest tools, can pull this same trick with ...
July 6, 2010
Cause and Effect
Ed Piskor offers a great round-up of that peculiar comics phenomenon: the single panel in which an action and its consequences/reactions share the same visual instant.
[via BoingBoing via Mike Fortress]
July 5, 2010
Things I Never Said
Roger Ebert tweeted what he thought was a quote of mine yesterday. It's been retweeted "100+ times" — which could mean many more — and many are reacting to it.
Nice of Mr. E. to name check me, but there's one little problem:
I never said it.
During the neverending video-games-are-or-aren't-art debate on Ebert's blog, several people brought me up, citing my definition of art from Understanding Comics, and one of them, the well-meaning Neil Figuracion, paraphrased the definition and put quotes...
July 2, 2010
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June 29, 2010
Hibernation Week: Five-Minute Face #2
[See Monday's post for details.:]
June 28, 2010
Hibernation Week: Five-Minute Face #1
On a self-imposed deadline, so I'm going into a brief hibernation this week.
Each morning, though, I'll take five minutes to draw a face and post it here. Just 'cause, um…
I'm not sure why.
'Cause I can.
Anyway, back to regular blogging on Monday!
