Darkstalkers Tribute Contest Piece

A few weeks ago Carlos and I entered the the UDON studios Darkstalkers Tribute Contest, where winners will be published in their new art book.

Here is the first entry where I painstakingly worked on for 2 weeks.

And the second entry where I completed in 6 hours while on a chocolate chip cookie sugar high.

Neither of them got chosen dammit! Well, now that the contest is over I can finally post them.

Sequential Salon Meeting, April 4th!

Hiya peoples, it's time for another meeting! Same time, same place! You know the drill. Do I even need to tell you guys what to bring? Hope to see some new work y'all!

Coraline

Seriously, the best movie I've seen in a long time. Based on Neil Gaiman's children's novel, it's about a girl who thinks her life is extremely dull, and wishes things were different. As the saying goes, be careful of what you wish.

Cartoonist extraordinaire Vera Brosgol worked on the storyboarding for the movie.

Go see it in 3D if you can. It doesn't try to be "in your face" about it.

And the soundtrack is really quite lovely. The film's website is pretty fun, too!

Coraline

Screenwriting samples

Someone named Lee Thompson has posted a ton of TV show scripts on their website as downloadable PDFs. While not exactly formatted for comics, the structure is pretty similar to it. They are a handy reference of what to do/not do, and a fun read, to boot.

Check it out.

(Thanks for the link, Mike!)

Meeting Reminder

Because Lynne takes forever to write up an email, and is still jet-lagged from Hawai'i, and from staying up all night reading the entire Naruto series online in one sitting...and because I can't sleep and might as well do something productive before I forget about it...

The meeting scheduled for 12 PM Saturday, January 31st is still on, as originally mentioned here (click!).

You should receive a confirmation email from Lynne regarding the address & phone number to call to get buzzed in.

Be there, or taste our squirrely wrath!

We do have squirrely wrath, you know. It's one of our hidden "nature" things.

Andrew Wyeth, RIP

Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Andrew Wyeth, the U.S. realist painter whose haunting portrait of a young woman lying in a field and gazing at a distant farmhouse became one of the iconic images of 20th-century American art, has died. He was 91.

What many people don't know is that he was an influence of Charles Schulz. You'd never know it by his drawing style in Peanuts, but Schulz had great admiration for the artist.

http://comics.com/peanuts/1999-01-29/

Wyeth's most famous painting, Christina's World, played a subtle role in the comic series Preacher, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. The mother of the protagonist deeply understood the emotions conveyed by the painting, as it was a reflection of her own mental and social paralysis. Glenn Fabry, cover artist for the series, offered up his own take on the illustration for issue #43.


http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/preacher

The Infinite Canvas

Happy New Year, everyone. We're all still recovering from the holidays and the return to the daily grind, so please forgive the recent lack of posts. To kick things off, here's some stuff on an idea from Scott McCloud's book, Reinventing Comics.



I Can't Stop Thinking!

If you're in New York City, please check out MoCCA's exhibit.