Category Archives: My Comics
I Have a Short Comic Coming Up in Museum of the Uncanny!
In my ongoing efforts to become a professional comic book writer, I’ve got another short story coming up! My short story will be part of the upcoming Museum of the Uncanny anthology from Very Big Comics, which is coming to Kickstarter early next month. Right now, we’re collecting advance sign-ups to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live. You don’t have to commit to buying the book at this point, it’s just sign ups for people interested.
So head on over to Kickstarter and click the button to be notified! The more people we get signed up, the better Kickstarter will treat us once the campaign gets going.
My story will be called The Normal Quesadilla Maker That Definitely Can’t Talk. I wrote the script, with artwork by Wren Rios and lettering by Marin.
The title is pretty self explanatory, I think. But here’s the quick blurb I wrote for the piece:
“We assure you the quesadilla maker can’t talk. The manufacturer assures you the quesadilla maker can’t talk. The quesadilla maker itself will assure you it can’t talk.”
The whole anthology is going to be filled with similar stories of weird, funny and spooky objects all collected in the titular museum. I think it’s a neat idea for a comic anthology and I’m so excited that I got picked!
And I hope I can count on you fine readers to sign up for the campaign, and perhaps even order the anthology once the campaign goes live next month! Slowly but surely, I’m gonna keep getting comic stories published. I’m gonna be a contender!
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My 6 Favorite Things of 2024
Welp, the world keeps spinning and we’ve reached the end of another year. It was a crap year full of mostly crap entertainment, and I’m coming up empty in terms of empathy and interest. Following the presidential election, I’m opting to be more cynical these days as a coping mechanism. This was also the year I took a back seat on posting all the time. This was a year.
In good news, I finally started my own original comic — Cover Bard — and am halfway done with the first issue. I need to make a big post about it. And the second volume of Gamer Girl & Vixen is complete and headed to the printers, to be distributed and available for sale early next year. So those were some good things that happened. We also had a ton of great TV shows, but not a lot of great movies or video games. It was a weird year.
But I like putting together a list like this, so join me after the jump for my favorite bits and pieces of pop culture from 2024! And feel free to share your own in the comments below.
Read the rest of this entryGamer Girl & Vixen Artist Spotlight: Andrea Rosales
We’ve hit the home stretch of the Gamer Girl & Vixen: Tyrant Lizard Queen and we’re on a role to do really well by the end! Can’t wait to to get to work finishing up this comic and putting it out this year! And I’ve saved the best artist profile for last!
Read on and learn more about series artist Andrea Rosales, the penciler and main colorist behind the whole Tyrant Lizard Queen graphic novel!
Q. What led to you becoming an artist?
A. Drawing has always been a part of my life. I have fond memories of drawing as a kid and while I was good at academics and played different instruments, drawing was always the one consistent thing that I just kept at. Drawing has been a constant in my life and over the years I’ve loved learning about the various ways it can lead to such amazing, fantastical works of art in varying mediums from graphic design, book illustration, storyboards for film, concept design in animation, product design, etc. There are countless applications of art and realizing that it was an essential part of so many creative forms I was passionate about helped energize me and refocus my efforts into becoming a storytelling artist. I’ve learned much from many different disciplines I’ve studied and I read a lot so I try to apply what I learn into what I am creating.
Q. What do you see as your strengths as an artist?
A. I think my strengths lie in character acting, expressions and most recently I’ve been working a lot to improve my backgrounds. Backgrounds are another character in the stories you tell visually so I’ve been doing my best to put the work in to more fully show the worlds that the characters live in.
Q. What are your future goals as an artist?
A. My future goals include working in the YA book market. I want to create stories that inspire young readers to have pride in their roots, identity, to be brave and do what’s right even when it isn’t easy and to take chances on themselves.
And now check out the first two pages of Tyrant Lizard Queen, drawn and colored by Andrea!
Now wait until you see the rest of the 90, full color pages in Tyrant Lizard Queen! There’s still plenty of time to order your copy and see Andrea’s first full graphic novel!
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Gamer Girl & Vixen Artist Spotlight: Jo Christian
We’ve entered the final week of the Gamer Girl & Vixen: Tyrant Lizard Queen Kickstarter campaign. We’ve had some solid success with this one and will definitely be making a comic this year! I can’t wait to show it off to all of my readers who have ordered a copy.
I’ve been doing some artist spotlights for the past week, and next up is Jo Christian.
Q. What led you to becoming an artist?
A. I grew up watching Disney Renaissance movies (1989-1999) and wished I could draw like that. I think it was the movie Mulan where I first realized that art could be used to further the storytelling medium (because the movie art was heavily inspired by Chinese watercolour and ink work, and I was going through a Chinese dynastical phase at the time).
Fast-forward to the end of college, and I started reading Hellblazer comics and realized that the comic medium was full of characters and stories I could really dig into, and again, art was part of the storytelling medium. From there I obtained a very pink and sparkly “How to Draw Disney Princesses” book and used it to learn the first foundations of drawing people in the Disney style.
Q. What do you see as your strengths as an artist?
A. I’ve been told that my use of colors are very bold while still following colour theory. I also have a deep love of character facial expressions.
Q. What are your future goals as an artist?
A. I would like to provide the art for my own comic scripts and maybe even delve into animation where my love of visual storytelling began.
Jo drew the shorts Mission Unpossible and Nothing At All. Which, now that I write them back-to-back, those titles are both Simpsons references. Wild.
I had so much fun making these little mini-comics and I can’t wait to make some more going forward! We hit our first stretch goal in the campaign this past weekend, so all the mini-comics I’ve been sharing will be included in the Tyrant Lizard Queen graphic novel!
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Gamer Girl & Vixen Artist Spotlight: Jesse Lundberg
The Gamer Girl & Vixen Kickstarter is still going strong, and we’re only a few backers away from hitting our first stretch goal! At that point, we will guarantee the inclusion of a series of mini-comics we commissioned from some artist friends of ours, which I’ve been sharing for weeks now on this blog. And to help bolster these artists, I’m doing a series of quick “Meet the Artist” posts.
Next up is Jesse Lundberg.
Q. What led you to becoming an artist?
A. As a kindergartner, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was an illustrator. So I guess I’m just living out my childhood dream.
Q. What do you see as your strengths as an artist?
A. Being able to work in multiple styles. I can draw cartoons and realistic likenesses, switching from one to the other fairly easily.
Q. What are your future goals as an artist?
A. More cover work and a future all ages book I am working on currently. Maybe revisiting my IP Harold.
Jesse did the artwork and lettering on two of the short comics: Punch Challenge and Dual Wielding. He also designed the new character Super Guard, who appears in the second comic.
Tune in next week for a couple more artist profiles!
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