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Self-Care Comic And Chick Tracts

I'm not sure there is a relation between the two types of comics in the title... but I finished my Non-fiction Project. It was due last Wednesday and after getting some feedback, I decided to follow through with the feedback and add a few more pages to tie everything back

Industry Day

Today, instead of a Visiting Artist, we had Industry Day with 4 experts from different areas of the Comics Publishing field. Tracy Hurren is an editor at Drawn & Quarterly. Bill Boichel runs Copacetic Comics Co. Jennifer Linnan is a literary agent at Linnan Literary Management. Joan Hilty runs PageTurner and

Treats on a Monday

I collected my Valentines today! Haven't had such fun with Valentine cards since grade school! Although the sentiment is slightly dangerous in the hands of cartoonists. Meanwhile, back in Comic History, we have been learning about the Underground Comix Movement. This is not a movement that I am particularly fond

The Rip-Off Comic

I've been working on the "Rip-Off comic" - I have to combine the basic story line of the movie "Maze Runner" with my research on trailer parks. My main characters are Thomas, Brianna, Lucy, and Chuck, the cat. Here are my character sketches for a few of them... I tend

Characters and a Visiting Artist

I did a post on my Beez In the Belfry blog a bit earlier this week about the Artsy Weekend with the Kid - I realized I wanted to show you folks some more stuff from this weekend. I mentioned in that post that Lilah joined the Cartoon Club for

Visiting Artists and Some Demons

The Visiting Artists today were Melissa Mendes and Chuck Forsman. Both were students at the Center for Cartoon Studies a few years ago, so it was interesting to see how their careers have developed since then. Chuck had an interesting observation "when gravity is pulling me in one direction, I

Drawing with the Devil

Warning: if you are offended by anything about the Devil - skip this post! (It's not that bad, really). Backing up a few hours... we started the day with a Scavenger Hunt. It was a beautiful day to be outside, so this was quite fun. We took turns drawing a

Creature Day!

I had a great day! Brainstorming and drawing and laughing hysterically. Yep - pretty great in my book. It's pouring rain, but I ran home so I could post all the stuff we learned today while I was still really excited. But I made the STOOPID mistake of opening the

A Whole Lot of Culture

I have definitely packed in a lot of culture in the past few days. Friday I got a peek at the new apartments that are being built in the old American Legion building directly across from the school. They are beautiful, streamlined with the perfect location. But small, and very

Going Backwards

I'm going to go backwards this week! I am so tired, I'm falling asleep while waiting for web stuff to load! The picture book projects were due today and I still believe that it was too big a project to do in two weeks. I thought I had paced myself

Whoosh!

Wow this week is moving fast! Maybe it's the picture book theme (my passion) and the intensifying work load. (Rumors are that it gets even heavier...!) Monday's History class focused on more info about the Women of Comics/Picture Books. And the impact of comics on picture books. There was

Button Eyes

I'm not quite sure if my Odyssey project met with approval or not. The impressions and notes I wrote down during critique suggest that people didn't really get it. There was confusion about the creatures changing from one page to the next and whether the spaceman was being sucked IN

Unicorn Update

Overall, it was a nice weekend home with the kid. But very stressful too. I have decided that there just is NO way to maintain multiple homes... the apartment, the house, and the studio. Granted, I am cleaning out and trying to rent the studio - but that alone is

Kriota Willberg & Bob Sikoryak

Kriota Willberg is a dancer, massage therapist, and anatomical/medical cartoonist! Not only did she speak this afternoon as one of our visiting artists, but she came to life drawing class this morning. Sure, she knows everything about bones and muscles and where they attach on the skeleton.... but what

Visiting Artist - Dylan Horrocks

Our visiting artist this week, Dylan Horrocks, was a soft-spoken cartoonist from New Zealand. Although his work didn't immediately grab my attention, I did feel camaraderie with him when I learned he was around my age and has kids - one the same age as my own son. He's got

Facebook Silkscreen - Pt. 1

This morning I coated and burned my screen. Crazy? Actually - it was the silkscreen for printing our Facebooks. I showed you my Autobiography piece the other day - now this self-portrait will be on the facing page. Here's the sketch I did and then scanned into Photoshop where I

The Summer Anthology

A couple of days before I drove Alex to college, I got an email from the school that the pages for the Summer Anthology were due in a week! Since it wasn't "required" my first instinct was to say - No thanks, I'm way too busy right now! Then I

First Batch of Homework

My Birthday is going well so far! It's the one day a year that I actually LOVE Facebook, too. I found the local Co-op and got brown rice sushi for lunch (it was yummy!) and lots of little cupcakes to bring to class. Years ago, at a different art school

8/28/2014 - Mia and Lilah - the Lilah Bean Comics

[This post was originally published on the Zentangle for Kidz! site.] This summer I was lucky enough to attend a Comic Camp at the Center for Cartoon Studies in VT. My daughter Lilah visited the classroom every chance she got and spent a lot of time working on her own

5/5/14 - Lettering Exercise (I like THIS kind of Exercise!)

I haven't made it very far on my "list of things to do while on my week long sabbatical." Strange how everything really does take longer than you think it will. But at least I have a start on a few things... One of my main intentions was to learn