During my weekly Sunday morning work ritual at Borderlands Cafe, I tried my hand at my first choose-your-own comics. Using Jason Shiga‘s “How To Design An Interactive Comic” video, which I blogged about a month ago here, I started roughing my first interactive story. As I was experimenting with the choose-your-own narrative, I started thinking [...]
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SF Zine Fest 2010 pt 2: Peter S. Conrad
In this second video from this year’s Zine Fest, I talk to Peter S. Conrad about the newest issue of his Attempted Not Known comic (order link). I was originally interested in the design of the book, which looks just like an old cassette tape, but Peter’s stories are always a pleasure to read too. [...]
Snug Life
Couple Snuggie things to keep you entertained… I know it’s a bit late for that stuff, so just pretend we’ve traveled back in time 5 months: First up is “Snug Life” by local comedian Chris Garcia and Clean White Lines (who did the Sean Hayes video I posted yesterday). Chris Garcia – Snug Life from [...]
3D without glasses
Since taking Stan Heller‘s 3D art class at Mission Comics, I’ve been wanting to make more anaglyphic pieces, but didn’t want to have to order red/cyan glasses for people to read… after pondering the problem, I thought I could try using animated GIFs to show depth (parallax scrolling). I’d like to note that this isn’t [...]
Original art from Aplelad’s new book
Last week I was lucky enough to catch the tail end of Ape Lad’s “Surprise Comics Sale” through his otherwise empty etsy shop. For only $25, Ape Lad would ship you an original page from his newest book, The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out (amazon). The only catch was that you didn’t get to pick out [...]
