sequential art reference

Jordan Crane's NON #5

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:49:56 -0400

by Juan Fernandez

NON - the anthology that took the best of what made Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman’s RAW a classic and combined it with a clear sense of where the future of comics lay.

Take a look at the beautiful anthology, NON #5.

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samehat: Shotaro Ishinomori - Uchuu Tetsujin Kyodain

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:56:44 -0400

samehat:

Shotaro Ishinomori - Uchuu Tetsujin Kyodain

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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:24:49 -0400

9emeart: Planche de “Les Larmes du Tigre” Par Didier Comès

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:35:51 -0500

9emeart:

Planche de “Les Larmes du Tigre”

Par Didier Comès

chicagozinefest: POC Zine Project’s mission is to makes ALL...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:58:33 -0500

Daniela Capistrano, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Mariam Bastani, Osa Atoe, Anna Vo, and Cristy Road (l.-r.) gather at the Urbana Independent Media Center in Urbana, Illinois. Photo by Fiona I.B. Ngo.

chicagozinefest:

POC Zine Project’s mission is to makes ALL zines by POC (People of Color) easy to find, share and distribute. We are an experiment in activism and community through materiality

POC Zine Project curates a traveling POC zine exhibition, has established an archive, cultivates digital platforms that share POC zines and provides grants, tools and events for zinesters.

The POC Zine Project will be hosting the POC Zine Project presents: Lessons from the first ‘Race Riot!’ tour” from 2 - 3:30 pm in the Lecture Hall, Columbia College Chicago’s Conaway Center on March 9 as part of Chicago Zine Fest’s Zine Exhibition. The POC Zine Project will also be tabling at the Zine Exhibition. This is the second year the

POC Zine Project has taken part in Chicago Zine Fest and we are so excited!

Find POC Zine Project online: Website/Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter

Photo credit: POC Zine Fest, Colorlines, and Threads & Circuits

helpyoudraw: Clothing Folds (Part 1) Adding the bigger version...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:36:39 -0500

helpyoudraw:

Clothing Folds (Part 1)

Adding the bigger version of the previously posted tutorial for the anons who couldn’t read it, also added the source. The second part will be added very soon. -ivona

royalboiler: Have you doodes seen this site with a ton of Otomo...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:09:04 -0500

royalboiler:

Have you doodes seen this site with a ton of Otomo art on it.

spacefacebooks: Arrete, Cest Ici L’empire de la Mort by Simon...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:44:00 -0500

spacefacebooks:

Arrete, Cest Ici L’empire de la Mort by Simon Hanselmann

GRIDLORDS: Sammy Harkham Interviewed by Graham Kahler

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:26:25 -0400

GRIDLORDS: Sammy Harkham Interviewed by Graham Kahler:

gridlords:

Thanks for the opportunity to interview you! I’ve admired your work for a while now, so this is a real pleasure.

NICE TO MEET YOU!

The most recent issue of Crickets focused mainly on a writer and a filmmaker. And I noticed in the liner notes of Poor Sailor that it is inspired by a Guy de…

drawnblog: This is great: ten drawing tips from Gary Panter,...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:07:35 -0400

drawnblog:

This is great: ten drawing tips from Gary Panter, including such gems as:

Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

And:

Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

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Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:57:00 -0400

giancarlovolpe: I did some compositional how-to’s in my early...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:04:35 -0400

giancarlovolpe:

I did some compositional how-to’s in my early weeks at Warner Bros. studios. I thought it’d be great to post a series of these on the Tumblr’s for beginning board artists.

This is the first part - the rule of thirds.

theairtightgarage: SERGIO TOPPI 1932-2012 Word is getting...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:38:48 -0400

theairtightgarage:

SERGIO TOPPI 1932-2012

Word is getting around that the great Sergio Toppi has died. He was one of my heroes, and a true genius of the medium. His approaches to inking and composition especially, are unparalleled. I love how much emotion and age he can convey with how he inks fabric and rock, and how much I think of their past when I look at them. There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t look at his work for insight into my own. I’m going to miss him.

Some slight good news is that three of his books are due to be published in the United States this year, from Archaia: new editions of Sharaz-De and Scenes from the Bible in October, as well as The Collector in December.

Also: Here’s a full strip, called Little Big Horn

Farewell, Sergio.

uno moralez interview

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:48:01 -0400

uno moralez interview

floserber: Moebius - Le Monde D’Edena, Tome 6: Les Réparateurs,...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:30:06 -0400

floserber:

Moebius - Le Monde D’Edena, Tome 6: Les Réparateurs, Casterman, 2001.

drawnblog: You all know Becky Dreistadt’s work, don’t you? And...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:14:45 -0400

drawnblog:

You all know Becky Dreistadt’s work, don’t you? And you know how prolific she is with her amazing gouache paintings and painted comics?

Well, the folks at Rainn Wilson’s Soul Pancake made a time lapse of one of her recent paintings as she made it, and they were kind enough to slow the action down for us. That’s how time lapse works, right?

Is is okay for me to say that I was mesmerized and cursing out loud for the entire movie? No? I’ll keep that to myself then. Awesome work, Becky!

Timelapse Painting by Becky Dreistadt (Art Attack) (by soulpancake)

fantagraphics: Dal Tokyo by Gary Panter 220-page black &...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:08:28 -0400

fantagraphics:

Dal Tokyo
by Gary Panter

220-page black & white 16.25” x 6.25” hardcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-56097-886-2

Ships in: August 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now

See more images in our Flickr photoset.

Gary Panter began imagining Dal Tokyo, a future Mars that is terraformed by Texan and Japanese workers, as far back as 1972, appropriating a friend’s idea about “cultural and temporal collision” (the “Dal” is short for Dallas).

Why Texan and Japanese? Panter says, “Because they are trapped in Texas, Texans are self-mythologizing. Because I was trapped in Texas at the time, I needed to believe that the broken tractor out back was a car of the future. Japanese, I’ll say, because of the exotic far-awayness of Japan from Texas, and because of the Japanese monster movies and woodblock prints that reached out to me in Texas. Japanese monster movies are part of the fabric of Texas.”

In 1983, Panter finally got a chance to fully explore this world, and share it with an audience, when the L.A. Reader published the first 63 strips. A few years later, the Japanese reggae magazine Riddim picked up the strip, and Panter continued the saga of Dal Tokyo in monthly installments for over a decade. But none of these conceptual descriptions will prepare the reader for the confounding visual and verbal richness of Dal Tokyo, as Panter’s famous “ratty line” collides and colludes with near-Joycean wordplay, veering from more or less intelligible jokes to dizzying non-sequiturs to surreal eruptions that can engulf the entire panel in scribbles. One doesn’t read Dal Tokyo; one is absorbed into it and spit out the other side.

flocksofsheep: from Kylooe by LITTLE THUNDER

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:54:46 -0400

flocksofsheep:

from Kylooe by LITTLE THUNDER

drawnblog: futurejournalismproject: Reporting on Africa...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:55:49 -0400

drawnblog:

futurejournalismproject:

Reporting on Africa Through Interactive Comics

via Color Lines:

I ask Bunmi Oloruntoba why he works in comics; his answer speaks volumes.

“In many ways, the medium is like the African continent itself: it’s misrepresented,” he says. “When it comes to the continent, you know, it’s the conflict, it’s war, it’s the famine. And in comics, it’s Spiderman, the Hulk, superheroes! One genre within the medium has grown so large that it eclipses the medium, and people can’t see the potential. Just like it’s hard to see the humanity, the complexity, the drive of all the things Africans are doing, because it’s been eclipsed.”

This eclipsing is what novelist Chimamanda Adichie has called the problem of the ‘single story.’ Oloruntoba, a Nigerian-born journalist and academic in Washington, D.C., is proposing a solution: collide Africa’s single-story problem against comics’ single-story problem, and see what interesting new particles appear. With literary editor Emmanuel Iduma, he runs 3Bute.com (pronounced tri-bute), adapting other writers’ stories about Africa into three-page comics — and then wrapping those comics in a ‘mashable’ layer that lets any reader dot the panels with their own public annotations. Mouse over a drawing of a laptop surrounded by partiers, and you can watch a Youtube music video of the Hausa hit they might be dancing to; mouse over a drawing of Charles Chikwanje boldly refusing to reveal the name of his gay lover on Malawi television, and get a recommendation for a biography of Bayard Rustin. It’s new-media innovation, historical context, Wikipedia rabbithole, and sometimes even loyal dissent, side by side. And all of it is a living antithesis to the single story.

FJP: What’s really neat is that 3Bute uses what they call a mash-up platform that lets writers and artists collaborate on the 3 page visualizations. Each works like a pinboard where readers can tag a story with relevant context. Visit the site and check it out.

Image: 3bute.com collaborated with the Caine Prize, Africa’s leading literary prize, to adapt all the stories shortlisted into comics. Above is a screenshot from Bombay’s Republic by Rotimi Babatunde.

This relates to our previous post on the state of editorial cartooning in Canada and the US, specifically about what was said regarding “journalistic cartooning” in other parts of the world (I’m paraphrasing).

drawnblog: “What else do we notice […]? Two-tier...

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:45:28 -0400

drawnblog:

“What else do we notice […]? Two-tier storytelling. Isn’t it strange how all three teams have gone to two-tier, independent of each other?

Maybe not. You’ve cut the print page in half. If you want each screen to make sense as a discrete entity, you have to respect the cut. If you want each screen to contain enough information to make it worth reading, you need a strategy to maximise your panelling. And if you want to be able to stretch out and get a big picture in there while still maintaining storytelling coherency, you’ve kind of got to go wide on the page.”

—Warren Ellis, from a fascinating post on formatting comics for reading in multiple formats, especially tablet, phone, web interface, and of course good old print. Ideas of modularity in comics composition make a lot of sense, when you consider the nested way they’re built fundamentally, in terms of discrete objects: images > panels > pages and on up.

Ellis touches on some recent comics designed for multiple platforms, including Mark Waid and Peter Krause’s new Insufferable, which has gotten some attention for being Waid’s big public splash into making webcomics. While I’m generally suspcious of Big Public Splashes, especially from old media into new media, new thinking is always a good thing. I’m especially interested in Warren Ellis’s ideas on format, as he’s been an early adopter of new formats for years and has a pretty clear-eyed thinking when it comes to what is possible and what should be possible in a given format.