Scott McCloud's Blog, page 49
July 10, 2009
COMIC-CON. THURSDAY. NOON.
They've announced it, so I will too.
On Thursday, July 23, at Noon, Comic-Con will be featuring one of North America's funniest and most innovative cartoonists, Bryan Lee O'Malley for an hour of conversation, and I have the best seat in the house—right on stage with him. Cue up early at Room 5AB to make sure you get a seat.
BTW: The whole family and I will be at Con as usual, but this might be my only official appearance, since I'll mostly just enjoying the sights. I'll let you know if anything el
July 9, 2009
A Couple of Photo Comics
As long as I'm a bit distracted this week by humongous, wonderful graphic novels , here's a German photo comic you may not have seen that's kind of cool.
And while we're at it, a Canadian photo comic many of you may already know about, but that's always worth a visit.
July 8, 2009
Taking a Break
Yeah, I'm just re-reading Asterios Polyp (see last post) instead of blogging. Sorry! Will post more soon.
July 7, 2009
Stop Reading the Reviews –
– start reading
the book
!Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli is finally in bookstores everywhere.
I'll have more to say after I've read it a second and maybe third time, but I can tell you already that if you buy one graphic novel this year, this should be it.
July 6, 2009
Cartoonists with Spare Time
Chris Duffy presided over years of wonderful comics in the recently demised (and dearly missed) Nick Magazine. In the best of all possible worlds, he'd still be hard at work on that front, but if Chris and the great cartoonists who worked with him are saddled with a little spare time, at least they found a fun way to spend it last weekend creating the July 4th Project.
Here's Chris' call to arms (and here's the post at the Beat that led me there).
July 3, 2009
Friday Round-Up: Catoos and a Sandy Eggo
Cat Garza has kicked off "Flash Fridays" with a loving, adorable take on a classic Tatoo motif. Cat's offering line files for anyone who might want to wear his designs. Keep a watch for more tatoos in the coming weeks.
Cat always called the San Diego Comic-Con "Sandy Eggo," Larry Marder called it "The Gathering of the Tribes," and Heidi MacDonald and others have been calling it "Nerd Prom," but whatever you call it, the greatest of all American comics conventions is drawing near. We'll be there,
July 2, 2009
Busiek.com!
Pronounced "BYOO-sik" by the way.
The man who got me into comics in middle school finally has a self-titled domain and a great new website to go with it.
Welcome to the club, Kurt!
July 1, 2009
Many People Talking about Interesting Things
Sputnik Observatory launched yesterday. Cool site with lots of video interviews including a few with me from 2006 (note shark in background — it's my old studio).
Be sure to pass your mouse over their logo once you get there. It made me happy (though I am easily impressed).
June 30, 2009
Drawn when I was 15
Bigger version here. Mostly I was just copying Dave Cockrum's style.
This was done for a role-playing game Kurt Busiek and I were working on in middle school.
Kurt and I played D&D, read comic books, and quoted Monty Python routines a lot. We were involved in comics fandom partially as a way to hone our skills for our eventual careers in comics. Mostly, of course, we were in it for the ladies.
June 29, 2009
Writing with Pictures
One of the comics I picked up in Barcelona last month was Arrugas by Paco Roca, a story about an old man's encounter with Alzheimer's Disease. I don't read Spanish, but visually "reading" it panel to panel at the airport still provided a coherent and sometimes moving experience. Here's a scan of some early pages to give you a sense of the storytelling. Looking forward to seeing an English edition, it's clearly a good book.
When I worked at DC Comics in the production department in 1982 (my first
