Jeffrey Brown recently made a small batch of comics for the Indy Euphoria show in Sacramento. I wasn’t able to make it out there, but my friend Josh Ellingson picked up a copy for me. The book, titled “Process, How I Make My Comics“, is the 1st mini that Jeffrey has made in 4 years and documents his artistic process.
Aside from the beautiful 24 page comic, each copy of Process includes a random batch of Jeffrey’s drafts, notes, sketches, and scripts from various works. My particular copy included: Panel grid, sketches from Strange Tales story “Cats Are Weird”, notes for sizing “Treehouse of Horror” story, thumbnails for “Cats are Weird”, scrip for Incredible Change Bots Two, unused pencils for “Cats are Weird” cover, and sketches for “Paul is Undead” book illustrations. I’ve posted all my “Process” unboxing pictures below.
In case you missed ‘em, here are some great flash games that have been making the rounds recently:
Life is Hard is an existential twist on the classic platform genre. There isn’t a ton of info Mr Colossal, the game’s creator, on the website, but it’s still worth exploring for the comics and animations.
First Person Tetris is a sleek take on the classic Game Boy hit. I love the background art.
Jumping is a cool deconstruction of Super Mario Brothers from the awesome Retro Sabotage site. Check out some of their other de/re-constructions, like Pac-Man Mockumentary and Pong Overpowered.
Last week, my friend Slim shared a document on his Google Reader about “Privately Owned/Public Open Spaces” in downtown San Francisco. Thanks to a couple comments on the article, we’ve decided to do an expedition of some of the spaces this Saturday.
We will be meeting at 11 AM at space #22, which the map describes as: “# One Post Street. Snippets with stand-up tables and square concrete blocks at sitting height next to food services.” Anyone is welcome to join us for a couple hours as we explore some of these POPOS. There is no planned route, we’ll just be playing it by ear.
You can find the whole map and POPOS listings on StrangeMaps.com and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
Last night was the 1st SF Cartoonist Conspiracy meeting at the new Borderlands Cafe. I don’t know if the SFCC has decided to move all their future meetings to this new location, but I think most of the cartoonists had a good time.
Inspired by the location, which is part coffee shop & part pulp science fiction bookstore, we had a special sci-fi jam theme for our nightly comic. Our usual jam comics involve having each artist drawing whatever they want to in the first panel, then passing the page to someone else to do the next consecutive panel. For this jam though, the first panel on each page had to be fashioned after one of the old pulp novels in the back of the store. Here is mine:
We came close to finishing 12 pages that night and MikeMike made a really awesome cover based on the cover to a novel called “Time Cop”. Considering the number of dinosaurs and robots, I can’t imagine a better cover for the jam. Huge thanks to the folks at Borderlands for being such awesome hosts.
If you live in the Mission and wanna come draw, I’ll be in the back of Borderlands drawing with friends and nomming cheese and meat plates this Sunday morning from 10am till noon. Afterwards, we’ll head over to Mission Comics for mimosas with Jamie Dyer.
Our first meeting of the San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy was at Muddy Waters on 16th and Mission Street. That was about 5 years ago. We had an awesome group, but didn’t care for the venue, so we moved around a few times eventually settling in at Church Street Cafe on Church and Market Street, where we’ve been for a few years.
Apparently, the CC members have been pondering change lately, so the next meeting (Thursday January 28th) will be at the brand new Borderlands Cafe on Valencia Street. I’m really excited that the CC may be coming back to the Mission, but I also happen to be a big fan of Borderlands Cafe. In fact, a few of the cartoonists that were at the very first meeting and I have been meeting at Borderlands on Sunday mornings for informal drawing and chatting time.
If you are interested in joining us, come to Borderlands Cafe on 870 Valencia St and look for the group of cartoonists. Please introduce yourself, I promise we are a friendly group. The meeting will be from 6:30 till 9pm.
Our first meeting of the San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy was at Muddy Waters on 16th and Mission Street. That was about 5 years ago. We had an awesome group, but didn’t care for the venue, so we moved around a few times eventually settling in at Church Street Cafe on Church and Market Street, where we’ve been for a few years.
