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so I saw this link post on twitter that sparked this entry…
The one industry unaffected by Wal-mart #comics http://bit.ly/5mlzGs
Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:21 PM PST
The one industry unaffected by Wal-mart #comics http://bit.ly/5mlzGs
is this true? I hope it’s true. sounds like a good thing, but is it a good thing ? does unaffected just mean not successful enough to feel the pinch – to low to get any lower? I don’t think my personal feelings about the monster chain mean much to the success of the industry… everything’s in such a state of flux right now – comics have definitely had harder times than now… maybe the current climate isn’t very telling, because comics are going digital anyways… it’s only a matter of when, not if.
I just had a lady call me tonight to try & sell me a Sunday newspaper for $20 a year. She sounded desperate. I really felt bad for her. Her last resort to sell me the paper was a $10 Target gift card, which, if thought of as such, could be viewed as making the paper cost $10 a year (less than my pro flickr account?)… even though I didn’t take the offer, I still felt bad that that was this woman’s job & told her to “try & have a good night” (what else could I say, “get a new job”?)
but with the “big two” still trying to bend the new formats to their will, they’ve given us 2 experiences that I find unusable:
1. Marvel’s digital comics took took spiritual possession of my browser when I tried to view some freebies – I literally had to shut down my machine & boot up fresh…
2. DC’s Zuda site doesn’t hijack my browser, but they knew it was foreign enough of a comic delivery that they put up a mini tutorial on how to use the viewer when you go to a comic… less & less do I have time to do much more than view a simple RSS post in my feed reader, let alone, actually go to a site (though I may want to).
both of these seem to use everyone’s favorite resource-hog/base-level-content-fence, Adobe Flash.
now, contrary to what specific project evangelists may think, I don’t want either of these companies to fail in digital format – but they’re late to the game… they can innovate if that’s truly what’s happening, but they’re joining a forward motion already in progress… & both parent companies lack in this department.
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so I was recently reminded by someone posting about it on twitter that drawingboard.org had also been far from my mind in recent history… which is a shame…
I found out about it from Mike Weiringo’s (RIP) blog a few years ago – it really has been a pretty cool & supportive art community…
apparently my old account wasn’t so accessible anymore, so I made a new one (krikitmedia, of course) – one of my favorite things about the site has been the various “drawing jam” threads – recurring posts with a new theme (character, event, photo-reference, etc.), usually monthly…
thusly, I found the batman jam thread in the superhero forum – leading to this sketch I did this morning over breakfast…
got me & Ari talking about what makes him such an iconic figure, even just visually… yay, drawingboard.org is still cool!
Comic-Con was great!… got sketches from Paul Taylor (really cool guy), Zach Marcus (who sketched Tyler Hutchison as a seal/sea-lion – awesome guys as well), Susie Cagle (really cool gal to meet, by the way – she uses the same pens I do!), Kel McDonald, Ryan Smith, & Brad Guigar (awesome guy, let us talk his ear off for probably too long 
)…
met Kenneth Rocafort at the Top Cow booth… saw Tom Richmond doing a caricature at the NCS booth… met Alex Albrecht, Jeff Cannata, Dan Trachtenberg, & Scott Kurtz upon arriving at the PVP booth…
my post-Comic-Con strip is up here on Some Antics!… & here’s the photos I took while at Con as well…
we had a great time, with a few hiccups, but next year we’ll be more prepared…
anybody going next year?
here’s one of the characters from the pages I’m working on right now… not enough to spoil anything, but hopefully enough to be somewhat interesting :p
crunch-time is now, so things should be getting more interesting in the immediate vicinity of now…
My first time with the wolf-man…
April 9th, 2009 |Posted In: astounding wolf-man, comic, comic books, comics, fco, image, image comics, ivan plascencia, jason howard, reviews, robert kirkman
The Astounding Wolf-Man #14
I wasn’t sure what to expect with my first time reading Astounding Wolf-Man, it was eyeing me in the shop – a cover that begged to be flipped open…
After finally dismissing the safe & gutless comic-buying practices I had apparently adopted unawares (when did that happen?), I committed to picking it up. As much as I have been loving the Bendis/Quesada era (no sarcasm, I swear!), I realized I hadn’t picked up any independents in a while (a fact which I hate). The #14 on the cover never would have swayed me from entering a title before… I guess I’ve just been caught up in “bigger” (real life) things lately…
The story started moving naturally, with little or no effort on my part. I quickly knew what was going on, even without having any exposure to the characters – going through renderings of action & story without suffering in the least.
I haven’t gone into specifics about the writing or art for the simple fact that I didn’t need to. Telling you just how effortlessly my sit-down experience with this book was should speak louder than I ever could!
…But I will anyways! …Just so no mistake is made. Art (Jason Howard, FCO & Ivan Plascencia) was clean & dynamic – in fact, the cover I mentioned briefly is one of those “you must buy me now!” covers that I have never really regretted indulging: bold glaring-at-the-camera image of the Astounding Wolf-Man shackled, bound, & pissed-off. The writing (Robert Kirkman) is at that level of “so competent, you might not notice”, subtle, memorable, & effective – I experienced no speed-bumps along the way.
My intention is not to fluff here, but I’m really not feeling like saying much else about this book, just because it stands so well on it’s own – I really don’t wanna take away from this read.