Tag: Comics

Building a Cheap “Frame” for Original Comics Art

I’ve occasionally been asked to display some of my artwork in gallery shows or similar situations and this always poses some problems for comics art.  A page of original art can’t just be hung on the wall like a painting; it requires some sort of frame.  The problem, though, is that getting art framed can …

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25% Off Sale at SLG

My venerable publishers, SLG, are currently having a store-wide 25% off sale on everything in their webstore.  So, if’n you’re looking to pick up any of my stuff on the cheap, now’s a good time to do so.  Just type in “bigsale” in the coupon code field on the checkout screen to get your discount. …

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Drawing Words & Writing Pictures – WK3 Exercise

The in-class exercise for week three is the “wrong planet” assignment here.  We’re doing the assignment collaboratively, with each student tackling one section of the story.  My section is #2, “lands on the moon…” This assignment has been around since well before this book came out, and has been posted over at teachingcomics.org for a …

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Drawing Words & Writing Pictures – WK 3 Homework

Homework for week three was basically just a 3-5 panel newspaper-style strip.  I wound up making a list of a dozen or so possible “situations” to build a newspaper strip around, but ultimately got lazy and just went with something I know: musicians. I think the main thing I learned from doing this is just …

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Book Festival Appearance: Bookmarks 9/13

  I’ll be  making the second of my two book festival appearances this year at this weekend’s Bookmarks book festival here in Winston-Salem.  The festival is on Saturday and I’ll be at the “All That & then Some” tent (V-2) at 2:30 PM where I’ll be discussing Midnight Sun, comics-making, and comics and graphic novels …

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