The final To The Rescue strip of the semester!!!
But not necessarily forever. I’m probably going to continue drawing them all summer!!
I hope you’ll check them out!
aw this makes me sad
so i’m not sure but i think maybe dematteis ships it
just maybe
Thursday, October 18th, Ivan Brunetti leads a FREE creative salon from 4:00 to 6:00 PM at EnergyBBDO offices (410 North Michigan Avenue)
my favorite photo of one of my teachers c: i love ivan
Greatest teacher to exist in the mortal realm.
IVAN BRUNETTI is coming to TCAF!
“Ivan Brunetti, Assistant Professor in the Art and Design Department of Columbia College Chicago, teaches courses on drawing, design, illustration, cartooning, and graphic novels. In 2005 he curated The Cartoonist’s Eye for the A+D Gallery of Columbia College Chicago, an exhibit that served as a preview for An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (Yale University Press, 2006), which he edited…” - Full Bio at TCAF site
Columbia College Chicago Website: http://www.colum.edu/
Yale University Press Website: http://yalepress.yale.edu/
—
TCAF is The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, taking place May 11-12, 2013, in Toronto, Canada. More at http://torontocomics.com/
I’m proud to say Ivan was my cartooning teacher last year. Amazing teacher and a very funny person. If you have the chance to meet him you totally should.
Ivan Brunetti is a GREAT GUY and I am so so pleased to have had him as a teacher.
(via nicholaslanegibson)
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, coming out on August 27th from First Second! You can even pre-order this handsome, shiny book from Amazon right now, though it’s always nice to get your favourite local bookstore involved.
This is an old story about the old me. I’ve since taken up a new daily regimen (starting today) and so far its going grreeeaaatt!
- spintheiryarns: dak should also be robin
- spintheiryarns: every character on this show
- spintheiryarns: robin
- spintheiryarns: terry's mom
- spintheiryarns: mad stan
- spintheiryarns: that shape-changing robot guy
- spintheiryarns: everyone
- spintheiryarns: bruce
- spintheiryarns: bruce is robin now
- spintheiryarns: somebody write me this comic
Newsarama: Keith, this didn’t take long! You just started writing Larfleeze in a few back-up stories.
Keith Giffen: He gets 10 pages in the back of Threshold and boom!, he launches his own book.
Nrama: Keith, you’re taking a little different approach to the book than you are Threshold. How would you describe the way you guys are writing it?
Giffen: I’m doing something I haven’t done in awhile. I’m going to plot and break it down like it did 52. So I’ll be working with Scott Kolins on that end, and then on the other side of creating the comics, I’ll be working with J.M. DeMatteis on dialogue again.
oh my gosh
oh my gooooooooooosh
I would just like to point out for starters that this year I finished 185,000 words worth of longfic. On the one hand I actually wrote all that stuff over the last three years; on the other hand that much in three years is still pretty fuckin awesome. Plus I’m not counting shorter stuff like the pirate AU or all the casefic sequels or those couple of stories about St. George as a little kid, so actually I have posted over 200,000 words of Hilary/Jerry in the last three years and I think that is simultaneously the most impressive and pathetic thing I have done in my entire fucking life.
I am really hoping, in the coming year, to re-channel a lot of that storytelling energy into original comics rather than fannish prose. I talk a lot of talk about what I want to do with comics but I haven’t followed through much yet :/
I know why this happens, which is because I love drawing but it is just an exhausting process for me all the time :( I feel like everyone else on the whole Internet is like I LOVE DRAWING I DO IT LIKE BREATHING IT SOOTHES ME ETC. ETC. whereas I almost always feel like I’m working my ass off for the slim chance of producing something I won’t hate. (And also because I am too stubborn to quit, which is a good thing I guess except what if i just go on sucking forever oh god.) I am far more comfortable with writing, honestly, which I know is probably because I’ve been doing it much longer, but I get in a place where I’m like “I thought up this story but I’m not gonna draw it because it will just be hideous and a tragic waste of time and ink and decent writing.” I don’t know what to do about that. I don’t know if this is a thing that happens to other people that they work their way out of or if this thing I really love doing is just going to make me miserable forever. Probably I need a thicker pair of bootstraps.
I’m also really glad that something I am doing soon is drawing a comic written by someone else, because even though I’m super excited about it and care a ton it feels more manageable somehow?
In vaguely related news I am still really sad that I am never gonna get to draw Hellblazer :( I mean regardless of actual skill level I may or may not ever attain I will never be good enough to draw Hellblazer because there will be no Hellblazer ;__________;
ANYWAY THE POINT IS I AM GONNA MAKE SOME COMICS NEXT YEAR AND PROBABLY THEY WILL SUCK BUT I’M GONNA MAKE SOME COMICS ANYWAY FUCK YOU.
Twelve Lessons and Carols #11: Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio”/Li’l Gotham
Twelve Lessons and Carols #7: “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch”/Superman vs. Bat-Santa
(DCU INFINITE HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1, by request)
so I love Diggle/Buckingham, I do, but this is about as far as I got into Doctor Who #3 before going WHO THE FUCK DID THIS ART IT’S SO PERFECT WHERE HAS IT BEEN ALL MY LIFE.
I also love that instead of doing a plot about an ~*iconic*~ event or celebrity (although there is an Ian Fleming cameo) this is about the London Beer Flood.
I found this in the back issues box at First Aid today and I think it may be one of the greatest covers I’ve ever seen on an issue of anything
Last artwork of the semester! I now get to enjoy that lovely feeling of pretending I never have to do anything ever again.
This was my NaNo from 2008 (the year I won) and then I somehow adapted it down into my Graphic Novel final. It got substantially weirder in the process without anything having actually changed. Probably due to the loss of like 95% of its context.
I would like to note for the record that this time last year I was doing afourpage comic for a final and I was substantially more stressed about it than I was over this. Possibly I am improving as a human or some shit.
Also, akahypotheticals described this art as “Dr. Seuss meets John Carter of Mars.” Don’t know how I feel about that. Still don’t.
