test heading Today is Veterans Day in the United States. Gathering around the Flatiron Building and around Madison Square Park, where the Veterans Day Parade begins in NYC are thousands of war veterans, young and old. We honor and salute their service. In tribute to them here is ALAN'S WAR, by Emmanuel Guibert—one veteran's voice, [...]
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test headingNew York City has a visitor this week and next, and it's our extremely talented author Emmanuel Guibert. If you would like to gaze upon the awesomeness that is Emmanuel, and (gasp!) perhaps even talk to him, here is where you can find him: Thursday: Witness! Quiet Revolutions in StorytellingFrom the photographs taken at [...]
test headingAlan's War, by Emmanuel Guibert, will be coming out next week, and we've been getting some questions: how does Emmanuel do it? Is he creating this art with ink or pastels? Emmanuel was kind enough to make us a video to answer this question. youtube And you should also take a look at the [...]
test heading[From the Drawing Board of Leland Purvis] A visual trope in comics graphics is the ‘glow, or ‘halo’. Some artists I know simply like the effect. Many aspiring comics artists seem to use it, and over-use it, simply because they never thought not to. This thoughtlessness, however, has caused a great deal of trouble [...]
test heading[From the Drawing Board of Warren Pleece] Reading some of the reviews for my new books recently, First Second’s very own Life Sucks, with ultra talented duo, Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria (buy, buy, buy) and Incognegro, written by the very talented Mat Johnson (DC Vertigo-buy it now, too), I felt a little put [...]
test heading[From the desk of Gabe Soria] "The Rut" – it sounds like an epic boogie rock instrumental, doesn't it? A real choogly Leslie West-meets-Billy Squier jam. Well, I wish it was. To me, though, it's a daily challenge that I have to strive to get over. Most of us "creatives" probably have a similar [...]
test heading[From the Drawing Board of Nick Abadzis] A cartoonist friend of mine once told me about another cartoonist friend of his who sneered at the idea of spending time doing life drawing. This isn’t from the horse’s mouth, you understand, so it could be a wind-up, as I have difficulty imagining a cartoonist who [...]
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test heading[From the Drawing Board of Leland Myrick] Illustrating a biography is different from anything else I've done -- exhilarating and frightening at once. Usually when I am writing or drawing, I feel quite alone with my work, sitting or standing at my drawing table out in my studio. But the project I'm working on [...]
