This was only my second trip to MoCCA Fest, but each time my head has come back overflowing with planzzz. Here are the BIG STUD PLANS I came up with on the plane ride home:
Turn hypercastle.com into a merged superblog
Put together HYPERBOX motion comic images for Will Sellari
Buy screenprinting hinges and more screens
Screenprint the cover for FROGHEAD HANGOVER
Screenprint t-shirts
Draw HYPERBOX #4
Draw SLUMLORD 2112 #1
Whew is that it!
Here’s the cover and a couple of pages from my new comic FROGHEAD HANGOVER that I’ll have (pending pickup from the printer tomorrow) to trade at MoCCA 2009! The comic is a true story from when I was living by myself in a small apartment in Austin back in 2006 … When I get back to the ATX I plan on screenprinting a different cover for the for-sale version!
Cover for the trade edition.
Page 5 – Dr. Chuch do you remember when you lived in Austin? Those were the days …
Page 10.
If you’ll be at MoCCA and you’re exhibiting, be prepared to be handed a copy! Here’s what I look like:
I just received Folk #2 by Tyler Stafford in the mail on Monday. I ordered it after I read the review on Optical Sloth, who, by the way, is well on their way to doing one minicomic review a day in 2009!
I was waiting to do a scan on one of the pages before I posted about Folk #2, but the venerable Shawn Hoke already took care of it for me:
Just check out the backgrounds in this page, especially the lower-right panel! I love how much detail Stafford puts into his environments, I usually just put in some generic mountains or fill it in with black … something for me to think about … Anyway all of y’all should order Stafford’s comics, available through his etsy.
Ron Rege Jr posted some new drawings in his cartoon utopia series yesterday! It’s a really fantastic project, here’s a bit from his explanation of the ideas behind the project:
“At the beginning of 2008 – I started to create a series of numbered 4×6 inch drawings as an exercise – to start to flesh out ideas for a kind of ‘science fiction universe’ that I’ve been slowly imagining over the last few years – the idea of a ‘Cartoon Utopia…'”
I love the idea and I love the drawings, Ron Reje Jr has always been a force for good in this universe, everyone should buy the Cartoon Utopia mini he just put out!
The always hilarious Sam Gaskin has a bed-time comic over at the Sundays comics blog, go check it! [2022-07-06 edit: link is broken]
Fav line:
“I’m a pajama jamma!”
I watched Ralph Bakshi’s movie Wizards this past weekend.
Images from the movie poster.
Until I saw this, I had never realized that Ralph Bakshi directed the half-finished live-action/rotoscope/animation Lord of the Rings movie! As I watched it, I wondered why more movies like it – animated fantasy epics – didn’t exist. I don’t know for sure, but I would think that this kind of movie is cheaper than both an entirely live movie and a 3D CGI verison. Then, during the special features, I discovered the reason – A New Hope came out two weeks after Wizards was released. Oh well.
Movie still.
My buddy Ryan Lauderdale pointed out that the strange mix of animation and color keyed stock footage is probably more interesting in 2009 than it was in 1977, now that that kind of mixed medium film is more prevalent out on the net and lots of people have access to video editing software. I wonder what someone in 2409 will think if they sit down (or download or mentally upload or whatever) and view Wizards – will any of it be relevant anymore? Or will they all be living out their own epic fantasy quests in a solar system that has been transformed into a Matrioshka Brain?
Movie still.
Unanswerable questions, really. I’ll just have to sit down and watch Fire and Ice.
I’ve submitted a half-pager to the all-comics newspaper SMOKE SIGNAL that the comic store Desert Island in Brooklyn is gonna put out. Here’s a panel from my strip, called SHAMANMAN:
If you want to see the rest, help make SMOKE SIGNAL a reality by coming out to the fundraiser, tomorrow (Memorial Day) at Union Pool! There’ll be a concert featuring
Uninhabitable Mansions
Ambergris
Boogie Boarder
Darlings
Doors open at 7, it costs $8 to get in – all proceeds go towards printing costs!!!
Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave in Brooklyn, NY (718) 609-0484, right near the Lorimer L + Metropolitan G train stops.
TRANZ got reviewed over at Optical Sloth, here’s a quote:
“Everything looks great and William/Mark is certainly not short on imagination, I guess I’m just more old fashioned in my comics reading, what with my general preference for linear stories and all. Still, there’s a lot to be said with the ‘where the hell is this going to go from here?’ school of making comics, and I’m all kinds of intrigued to see what he does next and what he’s already done that might or might not be more accessible than this to the common folk.”
