Sketch done today at We Care Arts.
Mar 16
Scott McCloud!
Earlier tonight my friend Neil and I went to see Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, Zot!, The Sculptor) speak at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He talked about visual literacy, the unused potential of the comics medium and monkeys, Monkeys, MONKEYS!!!
His power point show is innovative, informative and pretty dang great. He’s a fantastic speaker with lots of energy (maybe it was the 22 oz. Mountain Dew he was drinking during the presentation) and you can see him in action giving a Ted Talk by clicking here.
Anyway, I drew this sketch of him while he was speaking. He waves his hands around a lot (again, 22 oz. of Mountain Dew).
Wittenberg is also having a Mini-Comics Workshop this Thursday, March 19th. If you’re in the area stop by and attend. It’s a beautiful campus and you can see their upcoming goings on by clicking here.
Mar 13
The Cat
When I was a kid my brother and I had a set of the 1984 Marvel Super Heroes First Issue Covers trading cards.
There were cards of all the classic first issue covers like Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-man and The X-men… but there was always one that stuck out to me.
I’d never seen that comic and wouldn’t for almost thirty years! My friend Keith recently gave me a copy of issue one and I couldn’t have been more excited to finally read it.
Luckily, I enjoyed it quite a bit! Linda Fite, Marie Severin and Wally Wood turned out a pretty swell comic and I’m going to try to track down the rest of the series (there’s only three other issues) and read those as well!
Mar 10
Scratch
This was super fun. It’s called scratch paper and it’s much like scratch board only in’s a lot thinner and instead of having an undercoating of white it’s tie dyed underneath the black surface layer.
Pretty inexpensive as well. Try it out sometime if you’re bored!
