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Clowes
Thank God for Dan Clowes. He does an interview on NPR and politely fields all the dumb questions from the interviewer and callers. It really grates on me that the interviewer repeatedly refers to comic books as “graphic fiction”. What the fuck, is it 1990 still? The lead in for the show was “The pages of comic books are most often thought of as places for superheroes and evildoers. But over the course of his career as a cartoonist and screenwriter, Daniel Clowes has turned those familiar panels into windows on the complex challenges of everyday loneliness, alienation and despair.” WTF? When is the “comics aren’t for kids anymore” tagline gonna go away? Never? Yes. Never.
COMICS FOR SERIOUS: "childhood predators" from 'kramer's ergot' #8
Think of Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro’s “Childhood Predators” in the newest Kramer’s Ergot 8 as the comix equivalent of a Big Black song: a sincere slab of real-world, low-stakes, work-a-day fucked-upness manifested as actually putting yourself on the line contrarian art. It details the luring…
Summer Course Deadline
Deadline for applications for thee Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers is end of day May 30th. Tomorrow. Please reblog, pass around, get on the telephone and tell someone, anyone, who may be interested. Thanks. Please email me capneasyATgmailDOTcom for guidelines or just check out my tumblr.
Reblog this post! I will randomly choose one reblogger and send them a copy of this comic along with my eternal gratitude.
Print copies of Territory are now in my hands and ready to be shipped out. Ordering information for both the comic and original pages is here. Here are some reasons you might want to buy this comic:
1) I think it’s really good. One of the best things I have done.
2) It was edited by Frank Santoro as a part of his correspondence course. Frank is a great cartoonist, if you don’t know his work, and his comic Storeyville is said to be one of Chris Ware’s favorites (sorry to piggyback off your fame, Frankie!). He really emphasizes the importance of page spreads in helping me make this. So, while I am truly incredibly grateful if you take the time to read the comic online, I promise that in doing so you are not getting the full experience. This was made for print.
3) If you have ever enjoyed any of my comics, this is a great, relatively cheap way to express that enjoyment by supporting my work monetarily.
4) I will include a sketch — a nice one, really — with each order. Tell me what to draw. I will do anything you want.
Mr. Kupperman? Will you please make fun of me in your next comic? I will email you a photo of me to trace.
Application Deadline Soon
SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FOR COMIC BOOK MAKERS
SUMMER 2012 - Deadline for applications is May 30th
Application guidelines:
The new course begins June 4th. You can start late if need be. The course is a walk through my process of how to make a 16 page signature. Lots of fast drawing and composition. Lots of simple sequencing. We focus on timing. And color. And working in layers like a printmaker. If you are interested - please send me some work - small jpegs of things you have done. And tell me about yourself a little bit. There are ten spots open right now. I also need to see 3 figure drawings and 3 landscapes - all done on blank 3 x 5 inch index cards in direct pen - no pencil underdrawing. You should be able to do these 6 drawings in less than one hour. Draw fast and loose.
The course is 500 for eight weeks. I ask for a good faith payment once you start - half if possible. If not talk to me and we can work something out.
Basically it can be done on your own time - it is intense for the first four weeks and then you are more on your own. The idea is to use me during those eight weeks as an editor. After the eight weeks I will be less available - so if you don’t finish - that is okay - you can finish on your own time. It has worked well so far as a projected deadline. And if you blow it, so what? You do it when you can. But since so much of comics is about getting it done - I try and get you to work in a system that can get it done.
Check out a comic done for the course by one of my students here.
Email me - capneasyATgmailDOTcom
Ad for Frank Miller’s Ronin on the back cover of Amazing Heroes #20. It’s not Ronin I want to point out here. Look how many comics distributors there were in 1983!
The first appearance of Image Comics was an ad in the Comic’s Buyer’s Guide (September 9, 1991) for Rob Liefeld’s Executioners.
This week on TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW - Rob Liefeld!!!
Happy Birthday Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993)
Free-jazz & afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra (the moniker ‘Ra’ taken from the eponymous Egyptian sun god), declared himself a messianic saviour and whose aesthetic was the first example of a black musician overtly appropriating sci-fi iconography. For him, Sun Ra was an alien abductee – and, through the prism of the African diasporic experience, so was every black American in a literal sense. Meanwhile the Egyptians – an eon-ruling race of beautiful and technologically-advanced African aristocracy – represented supremacy and a recaptured empire.
(via duhdoydorothy)
Wally Wood, Romance Comic Book Cover Preliminary Watercolor Illustration Original Art (c. 1950)
