KRAMERS ERGOT SIGNING EVENT

Hello all,
just a reminder about Saturday evening's big comics event. There'll be drinks served, artists on hand, and tons of people there to pass your comics along to.






Awesome comics artists in attendance will include:

* Ted May, Souther Salazar, and John Hankiewicz from 5-6pm

* Carol Tyler, Dan Zettwoch, and Ivan Brunetti from 6 - 7pm

* Chris Ware, Kevin Huigenza, and John Pham from 7 - 8pm

* Sammy Harkham, Anders Nilsen, and Ron Rege Jr. from 8 - 9pm.

It'll be quite the coup! Here's a link to more info: Chicago Comics Event

RANXEROX

Boy am I glad to have learned about Sendspace. I showed a few of you this comic on my computer, but I think it is something that many would enjoy. Ranxerox in New York.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9u6rcw

ELGINS comic

here is COMIC
The CHOI Project enjoy
http://www.sendspace.com/file/i68rcm

Web Comics!

I think that, compared to printed comics, I've ended up reading web comics a whole lot more. I thought I'd share some info with you guys about a web comic artist that I recently discovered.

A couple of weeks ago when I was at Borders, I found a graphic novel version of the first book of The Babysitters Club. Of course, like I know a lot of girls did, I read The Babysitters Club series when I was in elementary school, and I remembered reading an article about the new graphic novels online a while ago, so I bought the first book out of curiosity... and I thought it was actually pretty cool. I did a search on the artist, Raina Telgemeier, and come to find out, she also has a really awesome web comic! Also, I hadn't realized that she's the wife of Dave Roman, another comic artist who I've known about and talked to on LJ. Talk about a small world!

Check out Smile!. It's a really great webcomic. Right now it's on hiatus since she's planning on publishing the rest in book form, but hopefully when it comes out to print it'll be an awesome comic comic, too.

Also, here's a list of a bunch of other webcomics I frequent that you all may be interested in reading:

White Ninja Comics
Cat and Girl
Perry's Bible Fellowship
Thinkin' Lincoln
Ryan Estrada Comics
Kiskaloo (This comic is actually drawn by one of my favorite Disney artists, Chris Sanders, who directed Lilo and Stitch)
Bob The Angry Flower

And here's a short synopsis on web comics from a guy that I think some of you might find familiar. :)

PDF Comics

So: while everyone got their comics completed on deadline, several folks did not get them printed in time for our exchange on December 5th. The links below will download PDF comics of each person's work. Please be sure to download and read each one before the crit Friday.

I recommend taking a page of your notebook or sketchbook and jot down notes about each person's comic (whether in PDF or printed form) as you read. Bring it with you to critiques so that we have a basis to start from. Otherwise it's likely you'll forget all about the subtle panel transitions and wording choices you meant to comment on, and that'd make for a pretty lackluster discussion on our last day.

So - without further ado, I bring you:

* Mary Zolp's "The Little White Bird"
* Dann Tincher's "Mann Versus"
* Ernest Kim's untitled (Skulltastic) comic
* Chris Nania's "Death in Vegas"
* Matt Litwin's Scrollable Comic and here the Page-by-Page Version
* Bryan Underhill's Death of a Mariachi
* Rebecca Bach's "The Real True Story of How the Easter Bunny Came to Be"

MOEBIUS REDUX. documentary on moebius (2007)

Revel in the cheap CGI chapter divisions!

Be amazed by Alexandro Jodorosky's rage towards
America!

Wonder at the French usage of wild gesticulations!

Watch as Stan Lee extrapolates from within his empire of paper based-entertainments business!

Be Hypnotized by the subtle emotions displayed in the tremors of Moebius' creased countenance!

CLICK HERE FOR A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS,
CONVERSATIONS AND AWKWARD DIGITAL PANS! IN MOEBIUS REDUX! a documentary on Jean "Moebius" Giraud.

Money for Comics

Here are links to some funding sources of interest:

The National Cartoonist's Society offers the Jay Kennedy Comics Scholarship for artists pursuing comics in their junior or senior year of college (next year). The deadline is February 6.

For the rest of you, especialy those of you graduating this year, apply apply apply for a Xeric grant. This grant provides funding to self-publish and distribute a comic, and has gotten many great comics artists off the ground running, including Jessica Abel, James Sturm, Scott Mills, Ellen Forney, David Choe, and so many more. There are two deadlines per year, one in March, and one in September.