Brandon Graham's Blog, page 89

Brandon!! Im the dude you did that New Mutants and Kitty Pryde commish for. Thanks again man. Im going to get all of Prophet custom bound into a big hardcover now that I know they arent making one. What would you have done for a cover? I was gonna use

Oh hey, Thanks for getting those from me.

When I thought a Prophet hardcover might be a possibility I was thinking it would be 2 books, 1 black the other white with just the Empire eye on them. 

Here’s a rough mock up.

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mendelpalace:

sloaneohno:

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My dude

im dying i love brandon ok

Brandon Graham, ladies and gentlemen.

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Don Paterson. 

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wellnotwisely:I really love this variant cover Brandon Graham’s...

wellnotwisely:

I really love this variant cover Brandon Graham’s done for Joe Keatinge and Leila Del Duca’s new comic series, Shutter, so I put together some references images which it reminded me of. The band running along at the top is an homage to Herge’s Tintin books, which have a band scrolling across the top of the cover, along with Tintin and Snowy’s heads in profile, looking out at the reader. Not all the Tintin books have the band-some editions carry it and others don’t.

The scanned photographs of the camera instantly being to mind Katsuhiro Otomo’s advertisements for Canon in the 80’s, which took a similar mixed-media approach. Otomo drew a couple of characters for the ads- a girl and a guy, who were shown holding and using the Canon camera, but the camera itself wasn’t illustrated- it was a photographic scan of the actual Canon T70 model.

The crocodile bellboys seem to ring a bell, but I’m not sure what- Spirou?

Anyway, I love the cover; I love that Graham has such a fun approach to this sort of thing and makes it work with ease; that he’s able to take a clutch of diverse influences and then draw a lovely lady in that distinct, soft style of his and make the whole thing fresh and his own.

royalboiler:I did a cover for The Black crown Kid Lobotomy that...

royalboiler:

I did a cover for The Black crown Kid Lobotomy that Tess Fowler draws. 

royalboiler:I did a print based on 1978‘s Debbie does Dallas...

royalboiler:

I did a print based on 

1978

‘s Debbie does Dallas for Woodrocket (you can get it heere) 

What are your thoughts on why there is such a small number of African-American female "indie" cartoonists? Or are we just not hearing about them?

No, I think that the number is actually just really small. It bothers me so much. I’ve looked and looked but I’ve only found a handful of African American women cartoonists. I haven’t even been able to wager a solid guess as to why we see so few black women doing comics.

It is obviously a cultural problem of some kind. In our kind of comics, there isn’t anybody to overtly prevent anyone from participating. There are no cultural gatekeepers to exclude or dissuade black women from participating in indie comics. So the question of why black women are not nearly as represented in indie comics seems to be a question of access or exposure.

This ties into my yelling about public comics such as newspaper strips, poster-comics and the like. If comics as an art form are contained to a cyclical ecosystem, we need to intentionally break comics out of that ecosystem. Explore new venues to put this work into the grasp of all people, everywhere. If some groups of people don’t frequent places where comics are found, then find those people and bring comics TO them.

That’s how I feel about what should be done to cultivate a more widespread interest. But I’m still terribly hazy on the initial question of how it came to be this way in the first place.

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spaceleech:Way back in the 1980s, Shinji Nishikawa (aka MASH)...

spaceleech:

Way back in the 1980s, Shinji Nishikawa (aka MASH) released a doujinshi called Godzilla Legend which eventually helped him land a job at Toho.

You can see some scans HERE.

Making of Godzilla Legend isn’t an autobio comic of Nishikawa hunched over his desk, but instead “behind the scenes” pictures and vignettes of the cast of Godzilla Legend that make it look like the doujinshi was a real tokusatsu movie.