Scott McCloud's Blog, page 42
November 2, 2009
Comics without Pictures, Take Two
The deadline is coming up fast, but if anyone is interested, here's a challenge to create a text-only comic (complete with prize) which some of you may want to take up.
As before, I'm sure the whole question of what even qualifies as a "picture" will come up, but I'm happy to let others decide that.
October 30, 2009
October 29, 2009
Aaaah! New Beanworld!
Larry checks in on his blog (and in yesterday's comments) to report that he's received advance copies of Beanworld Book 3, with the all-new stories we've been waiting 15 years for!
From the catalog description:
Fifteen years in the making, Remember Here When You Are There! completes the "Springtime" cycle of stories, in which the perfect harmony of the Beanworld is interrupted for the first time.
The official pub date isn't until "December 23″ but DH says it's available for pre-order here.
Can...
October 28, 2009
There and Back Again
The road between analog and digital is a two-way street for a lot of cartoonists these days.
Bringing it home this week: A shop talk video featuring Doug TenNapel (via a tweet by Kazu) and an email from artist Nate Simpson about his use of the Cintiq.
TenNapel's video covers many of the same techniques my generation was using 20 years ago—right down to the Windsor-Newton finest sable #3—but with a difference. Mr. T. is perfectly comfortable using digital tools (has in the past, might in the...
October 27, 2009
What is Monkey Punch Dinosaur?
No seriously, what is it? I don't even remember anymore. It's been too long. But I have this nagging feeling it might have started here or near here or something. Did I contribute at some point? Explain yourself, The Internet.
Anyway, it's still there, I guess, and nearing the #100th drawing of, well…
Monkeys punching dinosaurs.
October 26, 2009
Alex Fellows: Spain and Morocco
Alex Fellows checks in to let us know that his new comic Spain and Morocco has begun its online serialization. If anyone wants to get in on the ground floor, now's your chance.
Looks like a good start to me, and the cover is pretty cool too.
October 23, 2009
General Update: Drawing, Typing, and Talking
In the next few weeks, I'll be finishing the first draft of the layouts for my graphic novel (working title, The Sculptor). Then on to revisions through February and production of the actual artwork over the course of two more years (it's about 400 pages). It'll be done in early 2012 (a long time but hey, at least it's quicker than Habibi).
I'm not talking about The Sculptor much on this forum yet because it's too early, but I've been more consumed by this project than anything I've ever...
October 22, 2009
I Love the Web
Well, here's something that took a long time to make and was totally worth it.
As someone working on a three year graphic novel project, I find this sort of thing encouraging.
(via Ian Gilman)
October 21, 2009
Snapshot
Kate Beaton sums up her experience at APE this year with a drawing of fifteen characters, cartoonists, and friends from the event plus URL's. It's a fantastic drawing that makes you want to see Ms. B draw everyone's comic for a month (if you didn't already), and a great way to commemorate the event.
I could see it being a little more than that though. I'm betting that in ten years or so, it'll also serve as a snapshot of a moment in a comics community, frozen in time like that photo of the...
October 20, 2009
Take Two—With Legos
Yesterday's topic, cross-posted over at my Facebook page, prompted reader Håkan Storsaeter to remind us that Crumb isn't the only one to take on Genesis in comics form in recent years.
The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith, since 2001, has been chronicling the entire Old and New Testament using Lego blocks at The Brick Testament. Check it out for some funny and genuinely creative visualizations of countless Bible stories.
And if you know of other attempts to comics-cize the Bible that we can read...
