June 2006 archive

Scott McCloud: Making Comics II

Yesterday, Joe Zabel, who conducted the interview with Scott McCloudI blogged about yesterday left me an interesting comment, which I thought I’d reproduce here since it addresses further the always contentious relationship between the media of film and comics.  Here’s what Joe had to say: Interesting comment, Ben. As a matter of fact, I’ve criticizedUnderstanding …

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Scott McCloud: Making Comics

It’s an unfortunate situation that there really isn’t a good “nuts and bolts” instructional textbook that covers in any wholistic way the art and craft of creating comics.  There are two on the horizon, though, that seemed to show some potential—one is Making Comics by Scott McCloud, the other an instructional text by Jessica Abel …

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That Wacky Disaster!

I stumbled upon this while searching for photo reference of ocean liner cabin interiors.  Is it just me, or is this bizarre and/or in really bad taste? Titanic Slide – 33″ dual slideThe Titanic Slide has 2 – 35’ Long 50 Degree Sliding Lanes with a Enclosed Cabin Stairway for hours of slip, sliding fun. …

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Moresukine

I’ve really been enjoying this guy’s Moleskine/comics journal project.  He’s a Westerner–German I think–living in Japan who’s recording his impressions of Tokyo in comics form, updated usually weekly, in a Moleskine notebook.

(Almost) One Hundred Demons on MONSTER BRAINS

MONSTER BRAINS: June 2006 A big thanks to Aeron Alfrey (who I know only via the Comics Journal messageboard) for adding my (Almost) One Hundred Demons project/minicomic to his great MONSTER BRAINS blog.  Man, you gotta love the internet!  I’ll gladly put up with the occasional Viagra spam finding its way to  my inbox if …

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