more cartooning links

comic tools
I've been reading this blog for a while. It's really a great resource for reading about different cartoonist's process and tips and tricks and neurotic tool fetishes.
make comics forever!
this blog was an inspiration, of sorts, for Blood and Ink. A technical blog about cartooning by a whole bunch of people.
Drawn!
I'm sure I've linked to this before, and anyone interested in comics and illustration has probably already heard of it but really, it is one of the more interesting and informative illo sites out there.
center for cartoon studies
Anyone interested in going to school to learn cartooning should look into this. There are a number of schools now that offer a cartooning curriculum but CCS is one of the only (Joe Kubert's school is the only other one I can think of) schools dedicated entirely to the art of cartooning.

I'm back!

okay, I was away for a little bit, sorry. I'm a no good lout. I tell people to post regularly then I split... what a dick thing to do. I have been writing but everything is still kind of half formed and incoherent. with luck I'll get back to the whole "making comics" thing in a bit. in the meantime, here's another somewhat lackluster post full of links and one off comments...
check out this book
I may not know what art is but I know Andrei does.
Tony Millionaire draws Bukowski (sort of)
My love affair with Bukowski dried up long ago, but my love affair with Drinky Crow will never die. (oh yeah, go to Maakiesdotcom for more)
freelancers go here
if you love color swatches (and who doesn't?) check this out.

more soon.

Comics writers take note.

Jesse Hamm has some interesting (though not entirely convincing) things to say about why comics writers should step off and let the artist draw. I'm not sold on his line of action "rule," his ideas on visual cliche's seem a little too vague, I kind of like the "archie andrews two-face" and a few of his examples are really worse-case-scenario kind of things where the artist should just call the writer up and call them names. Hamm's always pretty insightful though, when it comes to the technical conventions of comics and it would do everyone well to read his post and mull it over.

I'll have some of my own opinions on the collaboration process for comics in a day or so.

lazy links.

because I've been neglecting the ol' blood and ink I thought I'd get back into things by posting some links to cool shit because I'm too damn lazy to write anything substantial.

James Brown (not that James Brown) has started a blog in preparation for his master's thesis. The blog is an interesting examination of architectural presentation. This includes many comics references and cool pictures of weird buildings.
no words no action

chances are if you're into comics and you're on the internet you've seen Lambiek's giant cartoonist encyclopedia. I could spend forever there.


I hesitate to post things that read like "news" here but here's a couple of time wasters.

tom spurgeon has a link to booklist's top ten children's comics that might interest those with or around kids.

I hesitate to mention this but there's a big nerd battle going on all over the internet about whether or not comics of the nineteen seventies were more or less important or good than comics of other decades. start here and follow some links if you care. I would weigh in with my own opinion of the subject but it would just boil down to a big "who fucking cares?"

come back tomorrow and I'll have something a little more interesting (seems like I say that a lot lately)

some comics related links.

the daily crosshatch, a new comics themed blog is looking for people knowledgeable about comics to write for them. but what are you doing going there when we want people to write for us? jeez.

Steven Stwalley (of soapy the chicken which, for some reason I really dig.) has some tips about putting comics on the web... the second part is where it really gets rolling and he's planning on further installments.

the New York Comic con is going on the 23-25, looking at the exhibitors list will give you a good idea of what to expect. Lots of movie people but Archie comics is going to be there.