Lately, more than anything else, I’ve been experimenting with various color schemes on Photoshop. To that end, the drawings themselves are fairly minimalist and cartoony. Some are better than others, but that’s just how experiments go. For more pics, follow me on Facebook. To find out more about the books I’ve self published, go … Continue reading »
You’d think for a guy who spends as much time reading and writing about comics as I do, I’d be a lot better at making them… Anyways, here’s my first attempt at creating a comic with Photoshop. All of my past efforts were made back when I only had the free program Gimp. The inspiration … Continue reading »
Okay, to be clear, there’s not actually a city in a bottle, nor is it explicitly named “Kandor,” but at the Portland Art Museum right now there’s a room devoted to showcasing a model city by the artist Mike Kelly which is closely inspired by Kandor. If you’re unfamiliar with Kandor, the story is this: … Continue reading »
The simple beauty of Batman’s origin story is that it can be summed up with three sentences. Bruce Wayne sees his parents murdered. Spends years studying to be a detective and learns martial arts. Puts on mask and tights and vows to avenge his parents’ death. You could even take out the middle sentence and … Continue reading »
Here’s more images by Corey Pung (me, in the third person). Just about everything I do uses the comic book method of pencil–>ink–>color. I added one more important tool to the process, a graphic pen tablet that allows me to use a pen as a mouse, which makes it worlds easier to include shading. The … Continue reading »
After years of being hopelessly stingy, I finally caved in and bought Photoshop. Since then, I’ve been avidly trying to learn how to use a program that most people mastered years ago. I recently won $350 on a penny slot machine, so I went ahead and purchased a graphic pen tablet too (a pen that … Continue reading »
If you’re a fan of reading comics and want to ascend to the next step of geekdom by reading about comics, odds are, you’re going to run into some phrases you may be unfamiliar with. You may wonder, for instance, “what is an inker?” or “What’s the difference between story and script?” Oftentimes, writers expect you to … Continue reading »
Black Blizzard by Yoshihiro Tatsumi is a manga masterpiece that can be perfectly enjoyed by people–like myself–who don’t necessarily enjoy manga. If you’re skeptical about reading manga, rest assured, there are no giant robots, emo heroes with long hair covering one eye, or ditzy, cloying damsels in distress to be found here. Instead, Black Blizzard … Continue reading »
If you haven’t already done this, make sure to read part 1 of The Shopper Awakes first. If you’d like to own the story and read seven more by me, check out my book The Madness of Art: Short Stories. Part 2 The Third World War… The subject is rather dear to me, and has been exhaustively … Continue reading »
Bubbles and Gondola, a graphic novel by Renaud Dillies, is the perfect example of why you should occasionally veer away from the Marvel and DC comics on the shelves (something I’ve been trying to get readers of this site to do for months). This book is the sleeper hit of the year in comics. I … Continue reading »
