Friday | July 3rd, 2009
Because of El-P that’s why.
Check out Deep Space 9mm
From: Fantastic Damage (Definitive Jux – 2002)
dark, gritty, challenging
in a word awesome!
Well almost,
Not quite,
But,
Tomorrow the 200th comic will be posted!
YAY!
After three tries I have finally got a published comics page I am happy with! As well as my mini comics I have included the three Anthologies I have been in: Pictozine 2, Bristle 1 and the Abstract Comics: The Anthology book. So if you’re really keen take a look.
Bristle Two submission
That’s right a new Bristle Issue is coming!
After seeing Grant’s post on the Abstract Comics Blog I had a look around his site and found his lovely comics.
One is the hauntingly beautiful comic My Life in Records. It really impressed me, I especially loved each child having a totem mask. One of the highlights of the comic is the dynamic interesting panel compositions which really create a feeling of reliving memory and have a almost dream like quality to them.
Over at the Abstract Comics Blog Grant Thomas has written a post about “glitch comics” Using a website that purposely corrupts jpeg images. Here is Grant’s comic.
I think its a really interesting idea pregnant with lots of possibilities in making comics and art. I for one are interested in seeing more experiments with this programme.
If you are bored and need a time sink check out Whitechapel (Warren Ellis) thread on webcomics, its only a couple of days old and already there are hundreds of plugs for webcomics, crazy!
Happy Birthday Drawingsilence!
Today is the One Year Anniversary of Drawingsilence
Yay!
Bristling with comics goodness!
The first issue of the Wellington New Zealand comics Anthology Bristle is out and I’m in it! Its Quarterly! Issue One is 32 pages long with a Fantastic cover by Tim Bollinger. The contributor list includes; Brent Willis, Dick Whyte, Ned Wenlocke, Robyn E Kenealy, Helen Cropp, Carlos Wedde, R B Stewart, Shayne O’Flaherty, GCR, Draw, and Claire Harris.
It is $5.00 NZD, If you want to get a copy email Brent Willis at celfbw[at]xtra[dot]co[dot]nz
or you are in New Zealand you can try your local comic book shop.
First up thanks everyone who has visited the site from Abstract Comics: The Blog.
So for those of you who don’t know I am a contributor to an anthology of abstract comics published by Fantagraphics Books.
So as part of the promotion of the book,we have started a blog: Abstract Comics: The Blog. For those of you who haven’t seen it I strongly encourage you to check it out! The welcome post is here.
The contributor list includes:
Robert Crumb
Gary Panter
James Kochalka
which is pretty cool and its going to be 206 pages.
It is going to be out for Museum of cartooning and comic art Festival (MoCCA) on June 6 and 7 in NYC.
There will also be an exhibition at the James Gallery, at CUNY (the City University of New York) between August 14 and October 21
A huge thank you should go to the editor Andrei Molotiu for organising all of this.
A very good friend of mine and fellow comics artist Edward Lynden-Bell has made a feature film, ‘The Last Great Snail Chase’. If you’re in Wellington next week its playing at the Film Archive next Friday and Saturday (April 3rd & 4th, 7pm session each day).
If you want to know more about the movie see this interview with Ed, over at The Lumière Reader.
I have updated the published mini comics page with the covers of each comic
drawingsilence.com was down for a wee while, while I moved hosting provider, hopefully everything is ok. I had to upload an older mySQL databease file so I will have to spend some time updating things and checking stuff.
If any of you, kind readers find anything broken let me know at info[at]drawingsilence[dot]com.
Another year has been and gone along with 9 months of Drawingsilence.com. All I can say is it has been pretty crazy.
Happy New Year everyone!
A big thanks to everyone who has helped me out especially TimB, REK and D Whyte.
Upon finding Crimson Dark by David C Simon I was unsure about it, it looked good but it feels a bit derivative of Firefly.
So with some hesitation I decided to persevere with it, I was pleasantly surprised to find I started to care. Smart Dialogue, and interesting characters allows the story to transcend its first impressions. Then I started to get into his science fiction universe and realise the obvious effort he has put into establishing it as credible and an interesting place.
Looking at the art I was struck how right it felt. It got me thinking about Computer Generated art and how it seems to suit science fiction. I mean really its now the convention for all visual effects and ’space’ shots to be done as CG. Personally I miss model effects I find CG can feel ‘fake’ and unconvincing.
But in the case of this particular art it does work and only the people occasionally don’t feel right.
In the end I am impressed, Crimson Dark is definitely worth checking out if you like Science Fiction.
BLDGBLOG is a blog about architecture. I remember first finding the blog because it had a post about science fiction and architecture naturally I was very interested.
It was a really exciting moment for me because I had found a place a blog that felt like an antidote to my architecture experience in the industry.
Architecture set free of the narrow views and minds of the mainstream of architecture. To pursue new ideas, explore the periphery and to look outside of architecture.
Best of all the writing is engaging and interesting and unlike most Architectural publications this blog has plenty of images and links to more.
The month of August has been a great month for this website with a nice increase in the traffic visiting the site. So I just want to say thank everyone who has been visiting the site over the past month.
A special thanks also to everyone who has left comments on my website over the past month as well, it’s appreciated.
If you want to contact me I would love to hear from you. Send me an email to: info[at]drawingsilence[dot]com
Lines and Colors is a blog by Charley Parker of Argon Zark! Fame it is one of my favourite art sites on the internet. It is a great blog to find out about new artists you never new you liked. He posts on a wide variety of different visual art that he likes. To quote the website:
lines and colors is a blog about drawing, sketching, painting, comics, cartoons, webcomics, illustration, digital art, concept art, gallery art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it’s fair game.
What sets this blog apart form various link blogs out on the web is the love and effort he puts into his posts. This isn’t a post with a link and a small comment about how cool it is. These are posts with long pieces of writing detailing almost everything you could want to know about the subject and why he likes the art or artist.
Best of all at the end of the post there is a exhaustive list of links where you can find images and more information about the art or artist. It means you don’t have to trawl the web looking for art he has done it for you.
So if you are interested in all sorts of different visual art styles there is very likely something to interest you on his site.
The ten doctors by Rich Morris is a doctor who fan webcomic about all ten doctors in a combined adventure. I have been really enjoying this comic, it is surprisingly good.
The comic does require some knowledge of the doctor who universe since it does have pretty much everything from the series in it you could possibly think of.
What impresses me the most about this comic is the characterisation. All of the doctors, companions and various characters all have constant and accurate characterisation. The dialogue is excellent particularly in capturing each of the different doctors various traits. The story does however rely on the audience’s knowledge of the universe for much of the characterisation of the villans though.
For the first thirty pages the story is easy to follow, but when all the main characters go of in different directions to try and find out what is going on the story becomes quiet fractured with only a couple of pages being devoted at a time to each of the different situations.
The story does run the risk of collapsing under the weight of all of the doctors, supporting cast and every major villain in doctor who history. This criticism has been made before at this strip. At the moment I feel the story is just hanging together, we will have to wait and see.
I wounder if the webcomic form is exacerbating this tendency. The story is easier to follow reading in one big chuck rather than in as a webcomic update schedule.
I am interested in the format he has chosen to tell the story in. The page layout is very tight with a2×4 panel layout for every page. The dialogue takes precedence in each panel over the art like in EC comics. This means it tends to be a wordy comic similar in feel to golden age American comics.
The opposite of the cinematic or wide screen comics like The Authority which is popular at the moment in superhero comics.. The question that has formed in my mind is why? The complex nature of the story has a lot to do with this. I think also that the webcomic medium is another reason for this, wanting to give the reader as much comics goodness per post as is possible in the format.
I don’t know if this is the intention but it seems that the page layout has evolved as the story has progressed. Each page has a beginning middle and cliffhanger creating a serial type format for the comic. Which I find interesting because I suspect for long form comics this might suit the requirements of the webcomic audience rather than having to wait for a long form comic page three times a week which out of context may be hard to read.
Anyway if you like Doctor Who go read the comic. I’m looking forward to what happens next.