Tag: comic books
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Kickstarter: Smaller Art Boards for the Modern Comic Artist
Nathyn Masters of Chicago-based Epitah publisher Night Phoenix Press has created a Kickstarter project that hopes to level the playing field for the digital comic creator: smaller 8 x 11. 5 drawing boards designed with the standard-sized home scanner in mind.
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Report Backs Learning Through Graphic Novels
In case the graphic novel’s validity as a literary format ever does come into question, Jeremy Short and his co-authors at the University of Oklahoma have conducted a study which suggests that, when it comes to directly recalling read material, sequential art is often more effective than traditional prose textbooks.
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Self Publisher! Magazine Wants to Get Physical
Self Publisher! Magazine, the digital publication that showcases indie comic talent through strips, interviews and features, is calling on its readers to help fund physical copies via Kickstarter.
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Shelf Abuse Featured in Top 100 Comic Blogs Infographic
David Soto has comprised a rather cool infographic listing ‘The Top 100 Comic Blogs to Follow in 2013’. Despite the fact that I’ve only recently resumed blogging – never know, wish hard enough and I might just bugger off again – Shelf Abuse is included somewhere down the bottom, like a dubious trouser stain that…
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Bloody Forehead #1: In search of Imperfection
On my procrastination woes, and the art of never getting anything done.
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Hatter M Continues via Kickstarter
I remember a few years back reading glowing reviews of Hatter M, the comic series that spun-off from Frank Beddor’s NYTimes Best Selling Looking Glass Wars series of novels… which in turn was based on Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland novels. Well, It’s probably a good sign of the direction the comic industry is going in when…
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Supernatural Detective Series Shadowland Out Now
Shadowland is a new self-published title from writer Tobias Elmore and artist Ken Bastard.
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Fred Fortune Returns… with Chums
Jonathan Odds’ lawless lout Fred Fortune has apparently had a bit of a life, debuting in small press tile Mondo in the early nineties and sporadically reappearing throughout the next decade. Odd will soon be reviving the character with new ongoing series The Incredibly Stupid Misadventures of Fred Fortune and his chums!, which will coincide…