Gamer Girl & Vixen Artist Spotlight: Luke Beatrice
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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Good news, everybody! My Gamer Girl & Vixen Kickstarter hit its funding goal this morning! We’re fully funded and are definitely going to make the comic this year! I’m quite thrilled. The campaign is still ongoing and will be for another two weeks, so you can all go pre-order your copy still if you haven’t already!
Now that we’ve hit our goal, we’ll be working towards hitting our first stretch goal, which will involve putting all of the free webcomics into the actual physical comic. I’ve been posting them every Friday for the past few weeks, and here’s the last one, by artist Jo Christian.
Read the comic at Global Comix.
I had a lot of fun writing this one. I had a lot of fun writing all of these mini-comics with my partner, Kristi McDowell. And we’re always having fun making these comics! So you best believe there will be more Gamer Girl & Vixen in the future!
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Watch Nimona Free on YouTube!
With the Oscars coming up soon, Netflix has decided to just put the entire movie Nimona up for free to watch on YouTube. The entire thing. Just straight up, the Nimona movie! It’s nominated for Best Animated Feature and is worthy of winning, in my opinion. As much as I loved Across the Spider-Verse, Nimona would be a great underdog winner. It’s a great film!
So watch and enjoy. I loved Nimona. And a lot of people these days are cancelling their Netflix. So if you haven’t seen Nimona yet, now is your chance! Make it happen!
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