Bride of Innsmouth

To Share Is To Divide

This is my second post here, and I thought I'd share a couple of pages from my most recent work. Having started doing the comic thing for my web-comic, my latest effort has been for a 12 page mini-comic drawn to be printed (A5 booklet). Its been a very different venture for me, but I've enjoyed it so much that I've started another.

(Below are pages 1 and 7 respectively, from the story To Share Is To Divide).

What I Learned at the Fancy Rat Show

This ran on the Willamette Week website a while ago. It's like "auto-bio journalism comics" or something. You can learn how to make a rat pinata for your pet rats.

Escape Pod Alpha

ECTOPIARY, Page 50

LATEST PAGE IS UP NOW.

Having reached 50 pages feels a little like a milestone (or a millstone). It means in a couple of weeks, this site will be one year old! Considering the weekly update schedule, and the estimated length of the book, ECTOPIARY will be finished sometime in 2020. (Truthfully, I hope to increase the updates to twice a week before long, thereby shortening that span.)

It's been an interesting week for the site. After meeting the talented and lovely Spike (responsible for Templar, AZ) at the New England Webcomics Weekend shindig, she graciously plugged my comic on her own site. It was extremely gratifying to see the spike in the readership. My thanks to her and everybody who takes the time to read my efforts.

Also, some of you may have noticed that I gave the website a much-needed sprucing up. I replace the hideous logo, added a couple more links and gave it new buttons. The "About" page is still a bit dry, and when I finally get the inspiration, I'll spice up the text a bit.

As always, I'm grateful to all who write in their thoughts. I am also extremely grateful to people who kindly donate $$ to help my cause. If you wish to join their illustrious ranks, you can do so HERE.

Peoplings - autism, education, and the Savage of Aveyron

Hi, Jeff Benham here. I've been part of PRO-Comics from the start, but this is my first post. I've been toiling away with 7000 BC, making comics, teaching, organizing events, as well as working on my many jobs outside of the comics world. Hi, y'all.

This post is about my main comic project for the past couple years - a graphic novel about autism called Peoplings that I'm making with Courtney Angermeier. Peoplings weaves the stories of two children - Max, a contemporary kindergartner, and Victor, also known as the Savage of Aveyron, a feral child found in the woods of France in 1800. Both are based on real children.

Many of Victor's symptoms were related to autism. Young doctor Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard worked with Victor for five years, and through it he developed what became the basis of not only modern treatment for autism, but special education and many other educational approaches, including Montessori teaching.  Through Max's story, we get to see where all of this has led, as well as those things outside of the formal treatment structure that come into play - family, friends, social support structures, and so forth.

Below I've got a short section - Victor's story leading into Max's, in the very different styles that I'm using for their stories and their perspectives. We have the first section (about 70 pages) completed and posted as a pdf on our website, peoplings.com, and we also just got the project posted on kickstarter.com to do some fundraising towards completion.  We always love feedback of any kind.  Comment or send us an email through the website.

Thanks for looking, and thanks to Mike for making the blog.

Jeff

Escape Pod Alpha

Sparrow and Crowe

Sparrow and Crowe cover

An Escape Pod Alpha adventure

Colaboratay, Scenes 1-1 to 1-16

Hi, I'm Gareth A Hopkins (aka grthink) and here I present the result of a comic project that I and my friend Daryl Morris (aka anxietydecending) completed in Jan 2010 at our shared blog Colaboratay. It wasn't the only project we worked on there, but it was arguably the most successful.It was Daryl that suggested it -- a conversation in comic format, one frame at a time. Daryl started it with Scene 1-1, and then I did Scene 1-2, and so on. Each frame was done postcard sized (6"x4") in case we wanted to collect and frame them at a later date. The pace was pretty frantic, considering we've both got quite a lot on, and after this first sixteen, we started another run, but we ran out of steam with an unresolvable argument about the quality of the film Cool World (that link is a little dig from me).As we were working on it, we were also having other conversations -- in real life, via email, and via the comments on the blog as we posted our scenes up. These conversations informed the direction of the comic -- for instance, Daryl's switch to living in a black and white world directly followed a conversation IRL about Vib-Ribbon. These conversations formed a rich meta-layer to the comic that I found really interesting and exciting, but I don't think Daryl was as fussed about its presence as I was. Anyway, after this unnecessarily involved intro here it is:

'Vestal Tendencies', by MisComp

Hi all. MisComp is my web-comic-blog thing, by me, Nick. I live in Bristol, England, and (amongst other things) am friends with Simon M. of Smoo Comics. He's been drawing comics for a while now, and it was a couple of years ago that I decided to borrow this 'comic' format he kept going on about to explore another creative outlet. Like Simon's work, my own is semi-autobiographical. Unlike his work, I can't draw all that well. Never mind. I've kept at it, and recently even got a pretty good review from Kevin at Optical Sloth.

The title 'Misinterpreted Complications' comes from my collection of thoughts and writings as a teenager (a few years ago now), which covered the usual banal misunderstandings and grievances of youth. Whilst in the last decade I've grown up a bit, there is still plenty about being/Being in the world that leaves me perplexed, and I think its partly for that reason why I've continued with the title - as a nod to a life project of coming to terms with it all... but maybe also partly because I couldn't think of anything else to call my web-comic.

I try and draw roughly three comics a month, all of which are available on my site miscomp.wordpress.com. I've included a recent one below, 'Vestal Tendencies', although its probably one of the least funny that I've drawn for a while. Sorry about that.

miscomp.wordpress.com - © Nick S. 2010

Feedback comics

Hey gang, really incredible work up here. my name is John Isaacson, and I know Mike from comics conventions around Portland. I've been making a quarterly zine of concert reviews in comics format called Feedback. I'm up to issue eight and you can check it out at Powells or Reading Frenzy if you're curious. I recently started digitally coloring the strips because they were picked up for the Willamette Week's music blog, so color is free. But it takes forever to color the strips! If anyone has any advice on how to color strips quickly and efficiently (digitally), please let me know or I'll probably start coloring them by hand. Keep up the great posts!

Loves Comics Submissions

Hi, it's my first time posting here, so I figure an introduction is in order. First off, I'm friends with Mike Getsiv, who started this blog, and have been meaning to post on this blog, as it's an awesome idea, and Mike is rad. I'm a freelance illustrator and Xeric award winning cartoonist. My work can be viewed here: www.joshuakemble.com. I'm working on a graphic novel right now, and since, as we cartoonists all know, the pay in comics is close to nothing, I pay rent and bills by doing freelance illustration, and loads of artwork for t-shirts. Recently, Threadless, an awesome shirt design competition site, had a contest with the theme of comics on t-shirts, titled "loves comics" and these are my submissions. If you like them, I'd appreciate if you'd take the few minutes it takes to vote and comment on the designs, as they'll print the designs, and also give me some hefty financial rewards if I win:

Vote/Comment on it here:


Vote/Comment on it here:


Vote/Comment on it here:

Thanks for viewing these. I hope to post on this awesome blog more often, and appreciate Mike setting up such a great forum!

'Mary Boundy' by Simon M

Hi all! My name is Simon, and I'm new to this blog. To start with, I thought I'd share this one page strip. The image itself is a couple of years old, and appears in issue #2 of 'Smoo', which is my ongoing, semi-autobiographical minicomic. I'm hard at work on #3 at the moment.You can fine more information on that here. I'll be sure to post some more material soon (if folks like it). Thanks for reading!

WE'RE OPEN

If you're a cartoonist who wants to post your comics here, please feel free to leave a comment with a link to your work.