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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup + Fort Thunder = Procedurally Generated Comics
It’s less than two weeks before my wedding, so of course I’ve become addicted to an ever-changing fantasy action RPG with a massive online community. I’m not talking about World of Warcraft – I’m...
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Interview with Ryan Cecil Smith on SFSF #2
Ryan Cecil Smith is one of the most exciting young artists making comics. His minicomics are meticulously designed, packaged, and printed. After I finished the three parts of SF Supplementary File #2,...
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Jim Starlin’s “Metamorphosis Odyssey” in Epic Illustrated
This past weekend I was flipping through some issues of Epic Illustrated that I bought a while ago on a trip but never got to reading. Epic Illustrated was an attempt by Marvel to cash in on the...
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9 Rules for my Comics
Skew is up to page 55 on Study Group and I’ve got a pretty good buffer built up. I set Skew up so that I could crank out the pages quickly in the limited studio time that I have now that I’m a father....
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Brackish by Katie Mulholland and Sarah Welch
I miss Texas. I’ve lived in the Kansas City metro area for almost two years now and I still miss Texas. Strangely I sometimes miss Houston more than Austin, even though I’ve lived in Austin for the...
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Tom Grindberg’s Thick Lined, Bulky Superheroes in 1993 and 1994
In 1993 when I was a kid, Tom Grindberg was a guest penciler for two issues of my favorite Marvel superhero series: Silver Surfer #84 and Spider-Man 2099 #14. I hated his artwork then because it was...
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Ditko’s Abstraction at Blog Flume
There’s a great post by Ken Parille over at Blog Flume on “Ditko and the Beauty of Abstraction.” Here’s a snippet: [In this panel, there’s] a giant ‘paint splat’ surrounded by a fuzzy ‘lightning bolt’:...
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Folk #4
I just got Folk #4 in the mail today, courtesy of the source of sci-fi mini-comic greatness, Tyler Stafford. This is the third issue of Folk that I’ve read, and they just keep getting better and...
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End of Eros
While I was away in New Mexico, I got a copy of my good buddy Jose-Luis Olivares’ comic End of Eros in the mail. I love Jose’s extravagant mark making. It looks like he attacks each page vigorously...
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Ian Harker
I hope that all of y’all had a happy new year! I’ll have a 2009 recap/2010 resolution post up soon…. Last week, I traded minis with Ian Harker and got my two comics in the mail. They’re called The City...
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Folk #2
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...
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