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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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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!
Read the rest of this entryGamer 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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Gamer Girl & Vixen in Nothing At All
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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