Scott McCloud's Blog, page 41
November 20, 2009
Is There Anyone Who Hasn't Seen This?
Kseniya Simonova's remarkable sand painting video has been viewed by eight million people, so I'm guessing a lot of you have already seen it, but just in case, here it is one more time.
There's this weird thing that happens where if enough people recommend a link to me, I figure I don't need to blog about it, because everyone has already seen it. Still, eight million out of six billion isn't exactly full saturation.
Some of the recommendations came with an "is this comics?" heading, prompting ...
November 19, 2009
Notes from Home
Back from Portland where I saw about a dozen cartoonists (comprising about 1% of the Portland cartooning hordes) and had a great time with the bright creative students at Reed College.
Just a couple of links as I settle back into the studio:
Shaenon Garrity offers an incisive review of our recent Zot! B & W omnibus collection.
And, as linked to by dozens of tweets and news stories, Lucy Knisley has an interesting take on a technological generation gap between her and some of her cartooning...
November 16, 2009
Water Discovered on Earth
Last week London, this week Portland. Two damp and wonderful cities (note Portland's actual 10-day forecast as of Sunday night at left).
Saw some great old friends in London (while briefly in town for a session with the good folks at Skype) including "The Man at the Crossroads" Paul Gravett, webcomics innovator Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, and my old pal Ted Dewan, and had the privilege of meeting Pat Mills, Sarah McIntyre and Woodrow Phoenix among others. Sarah got a great shot of Paul, Woodrow...
November 10, 2009
And Speaking of London…
Sadly, I won't be in town long enough to see much of the ongoing Comica: The London International Comics Festival, but I should note that the London comics scene is really hopping this month and if you're in the area, be sure to hop over to one of the cool events taking place between November 5-26.
November 9, 2009
Be Seeing You…
Off for a brief trip to London, so updates may be spotty this week.
It's a private engagement (at Skype which, yes, is kind of funny when you think about it) but I will be in London again in May at UX London.
In addition to the upcoming trips to Portland and Philadelphia (see sidebar, right), it looks like I'll also be swinging by the University of Houston in February. Details soon.
November 6, 2009
Rebecca Dart: An Olde Murder Ballad
Great cartooning on display in this adaptation of an old ballad by Rebecca Dart (via DD). It reminded me a bit of both Cyril Pedrosa and Craig Thompson, but with a flair all its own.
Dart's been in animation for a while, with occasional stabs at comics, but I hope hers is a name we'll hear more of in connection with comics in the coming years— especially after checking out the lively and original artwork in her other recent Livejournal entries (some NSFW).
November 5, 2009
What's Your Comics-to-Crap Ratio?
Douglas Rushkoff is offering an online preview of a new comic called X (Heidi's comments here). Looks like a fairly cool comic, with some pretty art by Cheoljoo Lee and Younger Yang. And as usual, the format got me thinking.
The preview is your basic repurposed printed comic book on the screen (*sigh*), but looking at the tiny, unobtrusive controls on the lower right of my screen, I realized that one of its strengths (offsetting the annoyingly long load times) was the high ratio of screen...
November 4, 2009
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Rudy Rucker writes to let us know that this Thursday, his daughter Isabel will debut "Unfurling," a 400 foot long graphic novel drawn on a scroll of paper, at the SOMArts gallery in San Francisco. It'll be on display through the 27th.
I didn't see Rudy's entry at first. Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing saw it and wrote about it Monday, but I didn't see Cory's entry right away either.
No, the reason I know that Cory Doctorow knows that Rudy Rucker's daughter has a 400 foot long graphic novel scroll a...
November 3, 2009
The Letterers
The celebrated letterer Todd Klein was interviewed last week. Some find hand lettering tedious and prefer using fonts, but there's no question that Todd's lettering is a thing of beauty no font will ever match.
Still, after reading how he got started, I had to laugh at the thought of Todd on the job at DC for the first time (doing the sort of correction and paste-up in the production department that I would later do in the desk next to Todd's in 1982) thinking to himself: "Boy, this sure...
