Today marks the launch of a new web initiative I am part of called Trip City. A Brooklyn-Filtered Literary Arts Salon, Trip City‘s membership draws from a broad spectrum of concerns and disciplines. Comics, photography, music, prose, art and illustration all have a home there thanks to the site’s diverse membership. I have the good fortune of working alongside talented friends and colleagues like Dean Haspiel, Seth Kushner, Nick Abadzis, Kevin Colden, Nick Bertozzi, Jen Ferguson, Amy Finkel, Jennifer Hayden, Chris Miskiewicz, Jeff UK, and Ron Scalzo.
Already at the site, you will find Seth Kushner’s Culture Pop profile of author and creator of the hit television show, Jonathan Ames. Already at the site are new comics by Kevin Colden and Chris Miskiewicz, art from the two Nicks (Abadzis and Bertozzi) and the two Jennifers (Ferguson and Hayden) and a full length podcast with founding members of Trip City as well as an interview with Michael Moore!
So please head on over to Trip City and share your thoughts through our comments section, like it on Facebook and if so inclined, tweet about it. Your thoughts and support are a big part of why we do this. Thank you.
So here’s the first fully inked, colored and lettered page of Marathon! The book will be black with one color throughout and for this test I used a warm ochre. I’m currently leaning toward this area of the spectrum but until I’m coloring the book in earnest, that decision is still not final. Thanks for visiting and stay tooned for more previews and process posts!
My good friend, Amy Finkel, has created a short film to raise funds for a proposed documentary about freeze drying pets. She’s set up a Kickstarter campaign (it’s already reached its objective but continues to draw interest) and as part of her incentives, she’s enlisted the help of her comicker friends to create original art! The film’s thoughtful exploration of our love of our furry friends and our relationship with their/our mortality has none of the irreverence and gallows humor of my piece. It’s challenging and resonant and worth further development and exposure. I hope you will consider donating to this project either for its amazing array of incentives or simply to do your part in helping to make art come to fruition.
To see the film’s trailer, learn more about its creator and become a backer, please visit the project’s Kickstarter page.
All 183 pages of Marathon are now penciled! It’s been a long process but it’s all the sweeter for the effort it took to get here. Next leg of this ‘marathon’ is inking but for now, it’s DRINKING!
As anyone whose been visiting this blog regularly might have noticed, there’s been a dropoff on uploads of my daily warmup sketches on Drawbridge. That’s in large part because I’ve been trying to ramp it up on my current graphic novel project, Marathon. The book is written by Boaz Yakin and tells the story of the first Greco-Persian war at Marathon. Above you’ll see one of the very first inked pages from the book.
Well, I can safely say that Pood #2, the son of the large format newspaper comics anthology that made such a big splash at Mocca, will be coming to comic shops very soon. Now that could mean later this month or early next. In the meantime, there’s a cool new trailer available for your enjoyment! Check it!
