Brandon Graham's Blog, page 284
October 21, 2014
alchemichael:
Octopoda Z
Reblogging these 2 pages together. I...
Octopoda Z
Reblogging these 2 pages together. I like the way they turned out. I just made it up as I went along. Each panel is 1”x3”.
neat
rumic-world:
The Inagaki Animal Hospital is a local veterinary...
The Inagaki Animal Hospital is a local veterinary clinic in Niigata, which happens to be the hometown of Rumiko Takahashi. How lucky can you be to get one of the world’s most famous mangaka to design your sign for you? Soichiro and Shampoo make great mascots.
Listening to Inkstuds and hearing so many people refer to Conan has piqued my interest in the character. Are there any particular stories that you would recommend checking out?
The 70’s and 80’s Savage Sword books that Dark horse reprinted is my favorite stuff. I tend to avoid most of the color or post 80’s stuff.
There’s some fantastic work by Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith & John Buscema, Ernie Chan (&Alfredo Alcala.) in those. —any of the volumes has great stuff in it. You could just start with #1 and see if you like them.
One of my all time favorite Conan stories is Jorge Zaffino and ChuckDixon’s : The Horned God ( I wish I could remember what reprint book # that is in)
what do you think of dicks?
“If I had a razor, I’d cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it.”
"Caterpillar blood," I said.”
Marlowe seems like a stright shooter.
So Multiple Warheads is in Best American Comics 2014. Your short story from Dark Horse was in last year's. I know you aren't a huge fan of comics awards. How do you feel about being in these anthologies? Or how do you feel about these books calling themsel
Yeah, awards are whatever. I don’t think I hate them I just don’t put much weight on them.
The main reason I let my stuff be in the best American books was just the excuse to be along side so many other creators whose work I liked. Plus I like the idea of it being a different spot for people to find my stuff in. I saw one in airport book store recently.
And yeahhh, the “best” title is dumb but I get that it’s the publisher basing the name off of a “best American short stories” book. It’s certainly wayyyy too subjective for my tastes. It is what it is.
The nerve to call anything “best” that isn’t this otter is outrageous. 
I thought 2nd strikefile is Oct 22? what gives?
Sorry for the wait. It’s done now and about to go off to the printer.
. Here’s a page by Ludroe that shows a far future Superpatriot.
October 19, 2014
What are your thoughts on "gamergate"? As a female gamer, has your experience been mostly uneventful or have you run into challenges? How would you compare the gamer culture to comics culture? Or do your interests allow you to avoid negative interactions?
Needless to say, as somebody who played games, and was vocal and enthusiastic about games from a really early age (the first game I played was “Parsec” on a borrowed Commodore 64), I’ve run into plenty of challenges. And “challenges” is a nice, vague word, so I’ll be specific and say that growing up as a girl meant encountering misogyny and gender role assumptions as part and parcel of the experience. Since I was a girl who wanted to assimilate into boy’s culture - or failing that share some portion of what boys enjoyed - there was heavy gating, implicit and explicit, on my degree of participation.
One thing that strikes me, looking back, is that I was excluded no matter what. Whether I stayed quiet and lurked in the background, or stepped up and tried to out-boast or out-play everyone else, my options were either to adopt a proper, passive role, or to have no place whatsoever. No amount of expertise would win me access. My achievements were either a lie, or something I’d cheated to obtain. And while most boys didn’t act like this towards me one-on-one, as soon as they joined the pack it was an immediate dissolve into girls vs. them.
Of course, nobody can be blamed at that age. Kids are just doing what they’re taught, and mimicking what’s around them. I had many (many) moments of idiocy and jerkiness, myself. It’s water under the bridge, at this point. But adults are a different matter. Adults can be expected to acknowledge and consider perspectives beyond their own. Adults can be expected to not shut down an argument as soon as it no longer favours or pleases them. Adults can be expected to act graciously - or at least not with harassment and aggression - when disagreement persists. And when all else fails, adults can be expected to not invent a cast of fictional enemies when they feel threatened by something they aren’t even willing to examine closely.
And those are some of my thoughts about “gamergate”.
As far as comics culture goes, I think there are some similarities and some differences. Certainly there’s a similar pressure to maintain the status quo, and not go around tipping over rocks to see what’s underneath.
Farel is soo good.
Farel is soo good.
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