Richard Sala blogs

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A Monkey-Girl-A-Day

Barth Maunoury, a British animator/illustrator/terminator, posts a daily Monkey Girl drawing on his blog, Year in Merde.

Royal Boiler finds

Brandon Graham always has the coolest things on his blog.

Check this out-

Geoff Darrow and Moebius collaboration! More here.

The work of Guillaume Singelin was highlighted recently, too.

His stuff reminds of Guy Davis meets Gipi with a Taiyō Matsumoto influence.

Jon Boam

Visit Jon Boam's world here.

500th Post Art Link Extravaganza!!!

I. N. J. Culbard is illustrating a series of Sherlock Holmes graphic novels.


Check out some black and white line art from Rafael Grampá!

Mike Huddleston's artwork has me reading Gen 13 again...


Travis Charest has a blog...


... and so does Kevin Nowlan! (This is the penciled cover for Spirit #30- out this week, with story and interior art by Mike Avon Oeming!)

Check out the preview here.

Toby Cypress has a process blog for his upcoming project, "Rodd Racer."



Chris Sprouse is interviewed by the Sardinian Connection...


...as is Ladrönn....


Kevin Cannon speaks about his career here.


Grant Morrison discusses his latest collaboration with Frank Quietly here.




Whew!

So...did this landmark post live up to your expectations, Christian Bale and Kermit?
Glad you found Lout Shelter's 500th post so satisfactory!

Ana Galvañ

Due to her participation in the Full of Pryde fundraiser for Oregon Hemophilia Treatment Center, I came across Ana Galvañ's work. Her concepts are fun and her muted palettes are great.

Check out her blog here- it'll make you wish you were fluent in Spanish. I'd love to be able to read her Manet homage comic.

Kettle of Fish

Lilli Carre blogs about her work and inspiration at Kettle of Fish.

Andrew Robinson's return

After a hiatus from comics, Andrew Robinson is back! He made a splash in the late 90s as the cover artist for Starman and Hawkman (funny story- it took me a while to figure out that the "Robinson" signature on Starman comics didn't belong to the writer James Robinson). He's now providing covers for a whole slew of DC books.

Check out his interview with CBR.

His Next Exit blog is here.

Mirage blogs!

I don't know how I'd never come across these before- blogs by the Mirage team!

Peter Laird's palblog

Jim Lawson's Box Burning

Steve Lavigne and Ryan Brown's Cowabunga Cartoon Classics

Eric Talbot's Blargh!

Mark Waid Interview

art by Daniel Acuña

There's a in-depth interview with writer Mark Waid about the highs and lows of his career at Aint It Cool News.

Check out Waid's blog here.

How to draw pretty girls

Learn how to draw PRETTY GIRLS from FAMOUS ARTISTS in ONLY 15 pages! HERE!
Be sure to check out all the other books ComiCrazys has available for online viewing.

Discard

Check out Discard- the blog of Eric Canete, the artist on "Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin."

Storytelling Engines

What is a storytelling engine? John Seavy explains:

Specifically, it relates to some comments I made some time ago about the construction and maintenance of “status quos”....

The idea is that when creating an open-ended series, you include a variety of different elements that act to help the writer in generating ideas for stories; each of these elements can be seen as a component in a “storytelling engine”....

So what elements make up a storytelling engine? The basic concept of the series, for starters; Doctor Who, to use a series we won’t be looking at later on, has as its concept “a mysterious stranger has a time and space machine.” Then from there, you layer on the main character, with his motivations and backstory (”an endlessly curious not-quite-human trickster, on the run from his own people who see helping people as a crime”), the supporting cast (”a young woman with more curiousity and guts than common sense”), the setting (”the inside of the time machine”, “modern-day London”, “a variety of alien planets”, “various Earth historical locales”), the antagonists (”a variety of evil aliens who seek to enslave or destroy people”), and the tone (”light-hearted adventure, with occasional forays into horror.”) Each of these, ideally, does something to help the writer come up with a story or move it along, and each of them could be changed in ways that help or hinder the writer. (For example, if the Doctor was “a heavy reader with no interests beyond enlarging his vast library”, the series would probably have to work much harder to get him involved in events.)

Each series has these elements, and each series evolves over time as different writers take a hand at the character....

Check out Seavy's analysis of the storytelling engines that make up classic comic characters here.

Coyote vs. Wolf

"Berlin" comic creator Jason Lutes has a blog about his thoughts on comics, games and life. He also shows some behind the scenes work from his Houdini: The Handcuff King as well as scenes from the Center for Cartoon Studies.

More about "Berlin" here.

Tintin Blog

For all sorts of Tintin related miscellany, check out tintinmovie.org.

Beyond beyond...

Blogs to be bookmarked-
"Beyond the Groovy Age of Horror" features an interview with Richard Sala as well as some great scans and synopses of pulp novels.

"Datajunkie" (discovered by Nick) does some analysis of the work of Steve Ditko, Gil Kane, Wally Wood and Jack Kirby. It takes a while to load but it's worth it.

Josh Middleton's Blog

I'm sure I've posted his website here before (if not, check it out here- it's been redesigned) but check out Josh Middleton's blog.

Cory Walker Blog

Ms. Marvel

Invincible co-creator Cory Walker has a daily sketch blog.
(Is it just me or is Cory looking a little Viltrumite-ish in his "About me" pic?)