Online color flatting class, $12.
Learn Comic Book Color Flatting! (Coloring Assistant role) Learn how to flat pages properly like a pro flatter! (Entry level comic book coloring work) - Free Course
Art of the Comic Book is David Marshall's college-level studio workshop for making comics with traditional ink-on-paper media.
Art of the Comic Book is a goal-orientated, college-level studio workshop for making comics with traditional ink-on-paper media. Exercises are based on real-world assignments. Fundamental comic book media techniques include storytelling, character design, working with scripts, hand lettering, inking with brushes and dip pens, figure drawing, sketchbook practice and group critiques. Technical eleme
Online color flatting class, $12.
Learn Comic Book Color Flatting! (Coloring Assistant role) Learn how to flat pages properly like a pro flatter! (Entry level comic book coloring work) - Free Course
10/19/2017
This nibs and holders guide isn't complete, but an very nice start.
Guide to Nibs and Nib Holders - JetPens.com The JetPens Blog provides pen and paper reviews, artist interviews, and helpful tips and guides on how to get the most of your writing instruments.
10/19/2017
A clever idea for managing texture when scanning thick watercolor paper. This has eluded me for decades.
How To: Scanning Cold Press Watercolor Paper If you're facebook friends with me (that is, one of my friends or family members), you may have heard me going on (and on) about how overjoyed I was that I finally discovered a good way to scan cold pressed (textured) watercolor paper! I really love painting on the tooth. I like how quickly
09/26/2017
The second volume of Comics Interview: The Complete Collection reprints interviews with women in comics that were originally published in 1984 and 1985. Contributors include Flo Steinberg, Maggie Thompson, Carol Kalish, Colleen Doran, Karen Berger, Jo Duffy, Cat Yronwode, Mary Bierbaum, and American Flagg colorist Leslie Zahle. Nice work, Gerry Giovinco!
Where Have all the Women in Comics Come From? | CO2 COMICS BLOG It is amazing to see the number of women that attend comic conventions these days. Maybe their inclusion is more pronounced to those of us that were attending comic cons thirty years ago when seeing a woman at a comic con was akin to spotting a Yeti on the beach.
09/20/2017
Todd Klein's tips for comics writers, from a letterer’s point of view.
Lettering Tips for Comics Writers Image © Marvel. This morning a writer I’m working with asked me if I had any tips for comics writers from a letterer’s point of view. This is something I’m rarely asked, but of co…
09/18/2017
Sam Rosen, Marvelmania Monthly Magazine #1, April 1970: "The pens I use are either B-6 or A-5 speedballs, bit are modified by guiding down and shaping on carborundum stone. Guide-lines are about 3/16 of an inch apart, separated about 1/16 from from another. For heavy lettering, I use A-6 of B-5, once again ground down until it feels right to me. As for the ink, I generally use Higgins black."
Comics: Joe and Sam Rosen, Letterers Joseph Walter “Joe” Rosen was born in New York City on December 25, 1920. The birth date is from the Social Security Death Index , and the ...
09/14/2017
Dorothy Woolfolk became editor of DC's entire romance line (Falling in Love, Girls’ Love Stories, Girls’ Romances, Heart Throbs, Secret Hearts, Young Love, Young Romance), and the Lois Lane book in 1972. Under her leadership, the stories explored feminist themes, featuring protagonists who didn't settle for boys who didn’t treat them well. She abruptly left the Lois Lane book after only seven issues.
Lois Lane's Feminist Revolution In the 1970s, the reporter best-known as Superman’s love interest got a new female editor—and branched out as a hero in her own right.
1954 from 2012.
08/25/2017
Lettering tips by Nate Piekos, originally posted separately on social media, collected here on a single page.
Blambot Comic Fonts & Lettering Comic Book Fonts and Custom Design by Blambot.com
08/14/2017
World of Cartoons #3 (1967): This might be the only account of how these cartoons were produced.
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/marvel-super-heroes-1966/
08/09/2017
"Spider-'Nam," a Spider-Man in Vietnam fan comic by James Stokoe, from 2011. These four in-process pages include lettering and pencil progress.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/5809737/what-if-spider-man-fought-in-vietnam
What if Spider-Man fought in Vietnam? Orc Stain and Wonton Soup creator James Stokoe turns his incredibly detailed eye on everyone's favorite wallcrawler, placing him far from the supervillain-filled streets of New York, and casting him as a masked soldier in the short comic "Spider 'Nam."