Seven Things You Can Do Towards Becoming a Comic Creator

by Ramon Gil 
RamonGil.com, June 19th, 2016

Writer and publisher, Ramon Gil runs down some career tips for comic creators in their early years.

1. Build Those Relationships.

2. Reputation Is Everything. Don't Burn Bridges.

3. Communicate! Communicate!

4. Artists, Learn to Draw Everything!

5. Baby Steps. Start small, then move on to bigger projects.

6. You Get What You Pay For! I.P. holders, pay you collaborators.

7. It’s The Story That Matters.


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Ramon Gil writes stories mostly for comic books. His signature genres are sci-fi, comedy and espionage with a healthy dose of conspiracy theories, a smattering of superheroes and a generous helping of witty dialogue.

The Hero's Journey

Fafa explains Joseph Campbell's famous theory, “The Hero's Journey.”

Published by Glove and Boots on Jun 18, 2013

Glove and Boots is a puppet web series. With puppets. On YouTube.

Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. (Wikipedia)

Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey” or “monomyth”is a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).  (Wikipedia)

In 1947, Ten Comic Strip Artists Were Asked to Draw Their Characters Blindfolded

posted Sept. 22, 2014 on BoredPanda.com

A comic strip artist will end up drawing the same characters so many thousands of times, that you’d figure they could draw them with their eyes closed. But could they really? In 1947, Life magazine decided to find out by challenging 10 contemporary comic strip artists to do just that – draw their characters with their eyes closed.

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Superman, Vol. 3, No. 1

Man of Steel [PG-13]
2013 Warner Bros.
Directed by Zack Snyder

Grade C-
Down-graded from C.

+1: Superman/ Clark Kent (played by Henry Cavill)
+1: Kryptonians fight.
-1: Pace.
-1: Tone.
-1: Fun?

IMAX 3D Grade: par

[overview on Fandango]

Hinges, book 1 - KickStarter

Cartoonist Meredith McClaren is looking to publish her page-a-week web comic, Hinges, Book 1, Clockwork City into an actual hold-it-in-your-hands book. You can help her achieve her goal with a pledge at KickStarter. Act by May 22, 2013.

[visit the KickStarter page]

[see the web comic: http://hingescomic.blogspot.com]

Alison Brie as Captain America

Screen Rant offers this find of what is a very excellent Photoshop digital composite image of Alison Brie (Community) and Marvel’s star-spangled Avenger, or “Miss America”.
It apparently originated from a Dec. 24, 2012 posting on the blog, Fan Art Exhibit:
http://fanartexhibit.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/if-women-ruled-the-worl2-miss-america/
by the artist by the Deviant Art ID, joshwmc.

“She can save me anyday.” — ScreenRant

“we're just begging to see more of. Just imagine Chang as Scarlett Witch!” — Meredith Woerner, io9

“What they failed to realize was she would have looked equally cool with her sensitive stomach region protected.” — Jill Pantozzi, The Mary Sue

Wallpaper source: http://www.kulfoto.com/funny-pictures/wallpaper/1/36645/alison-brie-as-captain-america

Exploration on Fan Art Exhibit revealed these additional “Earth Two” takes on popular film versions super-heroes and villains...

Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises) as “Dark Dame”.

Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch) as “The Joker-ess”.

Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) as “Haley Two-Face”.

Sandra Bullock (Demolition Man) as “Iron Maiden”.

Amber Heard (The Playboy Club) as “Thora” or Thor-Girl.

Uko Smith

 

The Collection of the Ultimate Uko Girl, vol. 1
by Uko Smith
36pp. B&W, 2011 Kenyatta Design
Contains nudity. 

 

A sketch book collection of pencil drawings of the female form by artist Uko Smith. Many of the the featured work seems influenced by the Art Nuevo style or at least by the contemporary work of Adam Hughes. Other pieces echo in their detail the styles of comic book artists Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri. All of the work, however, has an essence original to Mr. Smith.

Available online for $20 + s/h domestic
www.ukosmith.com

Time for Frank and His Friend

Time for Frank and His Friend
by Clarence ‘Otis’ Dooley.
Ringer Publishing,
128 pp. paper back, 2012.

A new collection of an archival comic series. “Calvin and Hobbes” type comics without the bounds of strip panel structure.

www.curioandco.com

Time for Frank and His Friend is available online.

Life in the Analog Age

Life in the Analog Age: Creative
by Gabe Swarr
20 pp. saddle stitch mini comic, 2011.

A taste of the comic strip series. Nostalgic stories fictionalized from true events in a style reminiscent of classic Hanna Barbera.

www.lifeintheanalogage.com
gabe.swarr@gmail.com

Life in the Analog Age: Creative is available online.

Mike Maihack

Merry Christmas from Batgirl and Supergirl

Cleopatra is Still in Spaaace!

Saturn Girl

Visit the artist’s blog:
http://cowshell.com/buffalog/

Mike Maihack is a graduate from the Columbus College of Art and Design and spends his time drawing pictures of cats, superheroes, space girls or just about anything else he can think of that might involve a giant pink heart or serving tea. He is the editor and art director of the Christian comic anthology, Parable, creator of the all-ages webcomic, Cow & Buffalo, member of many art and webcomic collectives such as Lunchbox Funnies, Spacedock 7 and Bristolwhip and contributor to anthologies like Jim Henson's The Storyteller and the Eisner and Harvey award winning Comic Book Tattoo. Currently though, Mike is hard at work bringing his sci-fi epic, Cleopatra in Spaaace!!, to life and watching lots of movies with his wife and two Siamese cats down in far too hot and humid Tampa, FL.

Animated Comic Book Covers

Kerry Callen takes a few comic book covers and turns them into animated GIFs.

http://kerrycallen.blogspot.com/2011/10/animated-comic-covers.html

blog: http://kerrycallen.blogspot.com/

Tom Whelan’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” limited edition created by Tom Whelan screenprint for the folks over at dark hall mansion as a companion piece to my “It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" print.

“This is, hands down, my favorite peanuts special. It invokes a quiet tone and humble demeanor that captures the true spirit of Christmas so perfectly. i had this one in rotation early this year as i was working on the poster and not surprisingly, my son is enamored with it. nice to see it captivates generation after generation.” — Tom.

poster specs:
• 10-color screenprint on cougar natural 100# cover stock
• size: 18" x 24"
• regular edition: 450
• variant edition: 100
• steel edition: 50

online sale info:
• thu, dec 1, 2011
• where: emovieposter.com
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• fri, dec 2
• where: dark hall mansion

Site:
http://www.strongstuff.net/

on Deviant Art:
http://strongstuff.deviantart.com/

Ben Balistreri: His Top 50 Marvel Chatacters #50- #26

http://benbalistreri.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-top-50-marvel-comics-characters-s-50.html

Ben is currently a storyboard artist and character designer at Dreamworks, where I just finished work on How to Train Your Dragon. He is an Emmy Award winner for my character designs on “Foster”s Home for Imaginary Friends”.

[link: Ben’s Blog: http://www.benbalistreri.blogspot.com/]

The Histories of Bucky Barnes and Jason Todd Explained

8 panel comic description of two notable comic book characters by Curt Franklin and artist Chris Haley of the webcomic Let’s Be Friends Again, appearing July 7, 2011 on Comics Alliance.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/07/07/bucky-jason-todd-history/

Project Rooftop

The superhero fashion site.

In February 2006, comics creators Dean Trippe and comics journalist Chris Arrant started this site as a way to showcase this art form or redesigning super-hero costumes in tribute to classic superheroes, and as a catalyst to improve costume design in the industry.

http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/

Fill-in Fantastic Four by Darren Rawlings

http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2011/07/07/darren-rawlings-fill-in-fantastic-four/

 

Captain Steve Rogers by Daniel Heard

http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2011/07/22/remembering-our-captain-america-fighting-styles-redesign-challenge/

Wonder Woman by Colleen Doran

http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2011/07/27/colleen-dorans-wonder-woman/

Marvel Retro Tee Shirts at Zazzle

Zazzle is a site for on-demand, custom products like tee-shirts, business cards, invitations in addition to a variety of custom gifts.

http://www.zazzle.com/

They also have products from many famous brands including Disney, Hallmark, DC Comics and Marvel Comics. What’s more, Marvel has a sub-category celebrating it’s heritage with a retro line featuring the classic art by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Buscema, and John Byrne.

http://www.zazzle.com/marvelclassics

Captain America by Eric Tan

http://erictanart.blogspot.com/2011/07/propaganda-time.html

Mondo, who has a booth for the very first time at San Diego Comic Con, will release these at some point, as well as a vintage set by Olly Moss, and a one-sheet by Tyler Stout.

About Eric Tan: Designer/Doodler. Grew up in the sleepy town of San Diego. Suffers from narcolepsy. When not working or sleeping...or sleeping at work, I usually have a skateboard, a snowboard, or a burrito in hand.



http://erictanart.blogspot.com/

Captain America by Richard Davies

Richard Davies, aka ‘turksworks’, is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer residing in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, UK.

http://www.turksworks.co.uk/index.html

Captain America by Olly Moss

Captain America WW2 propaganda posters (+variants) for Mondo in conjunction with Paramount Pictures.

http://www.moss.fm/post/7762966938/captain-america-ww2-propaganda-posters-variants

http://www.moss.fm/

Abstruse Goose

the site:
http://abstrusegoose.com/

Daily Comic widget for MAC:
http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/nps/download.php?product_id=DAILY-COMIC