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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Top 6 Tyrannosaurus Rex Characters in Pop Culture
The Tyrannosaurus Rex is damn cool. Dinosaurs are already cool, and there is no cooler dinosaur than the T-Rex, the Tyrant Lizard King! Which is why the T-Rex is all over pop culture, from comics to cartoons to the big screen. I even modeled the villain of my new Gamer Girl & Vixen comic after a Tyrannosaur!
That’s right, I was able to tie this week’s List of Six back into my ongoing Kickstarter campaign! Such is the way of things. But Tyrannosaurus Regina is not yet a household name, so I had to put this list together out of known T-Rex characters in pop culture. The meanest, toughest, coolest and nicest Tyrannosaurs in pop culture even!
Join me after the jump for some pretty great Tyrannosaur characters!
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As you are hopefully no doubt aware, my Gamer Girl & Vixen Kickstarter campaign is going strong! We’ve already hit our goal and will be making a new comic this year. We’re now working on our first stretch goal, in which we’ll include all of the GG&V mini-comics into the graphic novel, I’ve been posting every Friday for the past few weeks. And to help facilitate that, I’ve done some little interviews with the guest artists! That I’m going to share here!
First up is artist Luke Beatrice. Find more of his art at that link.
Q. What led you to becoming an artist?
A. I just wanted all the crazy things I saw in my head to be real! I started drawing when I was 9 or so and my first fanart was for Batman: The Animated Series.
Q. What do you see as your strengths as an artist?
A. I’ve been told that color and expressions (both facial and body language) are my strengths.
Q. What are your future goals as an artist?
A. I’m an animator by trade, so I’d like to do more personal animated shorts about LGBTQ+ peeps!
Luke did the artwork and lettering for two of the short comics: Quizzy Bee and Walk of Pride, which you can read below!
And there will be plenty of more work from Luke coming in the future! Can’t reveal it all yet, but it’s gonna be pretty awesome in the year ahead!
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The Borderlands Movie Looks Like a Lot of Fun!
I never played many of the Borderlands video games. I know I played some of the first, but that was about it. But the first trailer for the new Borderlands movie is out and it looks pretty fun! It looks heavily influenced by Guardians of the Galaxy, but I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Yeah, just looks like a wacky, silly, explodey good time. The cast looks great. The action looks great. The humor is pretty solid. Obviously it won’t be as good as what James Gunn himself could have done with the project, but there are far worse directors and movies to mimic. Let us hope they can pull off what they’re going for.
Borderlands comes to theaters on Aug. 9.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 2/24/24
What a week, what a glorious week! If you haven’t heard the news, my Gamer Girl & Vixen Kickstarter hit its funding goal this week, so I’m on cloud nine! And then the world went ahead and gave me so many of my favorite current comics, like Nightwing, Superman and Transformers!
Comic Book of the Week goes to Wonder Woman #6 because every issue of this series is just mind-blowingly cool!
Meanwhile, I’ve been making my way through various TV shows lately, like Lessons in Chemistry and, finally, Twisted Metal. I’m still playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder and taking my sweet time at on that. No other new games have really caught my attention. So just sort of chilling my way through some OK games and shows these days.
Comic Reviews: Cobra Commander #2, Nightwing #111, Superman #11, Transformers #5, Ultimate Spider-Man #2 and Wonder Woman #6.
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