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I came across this old work that I hadn’t thought about in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:08:00 -0400

I came across this old work that I hadn’t thought about in forever. These are illustrations from 2008 that I was hired to do for a role playing game book. First work-for-hire work, first attempt at coloring my own stuff, first time using a brush even. Instead of being all OH GOD I’M EMBARRASSED, I’m looking at these and feeling good about where I’m at now. Buckling down, doing the work. Besides, I can see small parts of them that I still like, especially the last one.

It’s nice to be reminded of one’s progress sometimes, ya know?

I made this card for my mom. for Mother’s Day. She really...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:17:47 -0400

I made this card for my mom. for Mother’s Day. She really likes Billy Joel. That first image is the front, the second is the inside. Gushy “I love you, mom“‘s on the back.

P.S. Whoa I’m terrible at likenesses! Also I have this weird thing where I never, ever remember to ink ears, so I did that after I scanned it.

Couple of wind-down sketches. Goodnight, tumblr.

Sat, 04 May 2013 05:13:00 -0400

Couple of wind-down sketches.

Goodnight, tumblr.

Quick and dirty warm up sketch wasn’t so quick, and took...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:56:40 -0400

Quick and dirty warm up sketch wasn’t so quick, and took more like an hour. Alright, drawing for real now.

Stumptown Comics Fest I’ll be at the Stumptown Comics...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:26:00 -0400

Stumptown Comics Fest

I’ll be at the Stumptown Comics Festival this weekend, doing stuff, hanging out. The main official thing I’ll be doing is screening Judge Minty, a really rad Judge Dredd fan film directed by Steven Sterlacchini. It’s been screening here and there in the UK, including at Thought Bubble last year where it received praise from John Wagner himself. So far, it hasn’t been released to watch online and has only been shown in the US once, so this should hopefully be a treat for everyone that’s wanted to finally see it. I liked it a whole lot.

The screening will take place at 3pm on Saturday, April 27th. Running time is about 30 minutes, and serves as an introduction to a panel called “Judge Dredd: Mega-City One And Beyond”, moderated by Douglas Wolk. If you’re interested in getting into Dredd, and now is a particularly good time as 2000AD has been upping in its game in the last couple of years, come by and check it out.

Other than that, I’ll be around, likely bumming around the Press Gang table or creeping up behind Boulet to watch him draw as often as possible. See you there!

study-group: So in all the hustle and bustle trying to...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:21:38 -0400

study-group:

So in all the hustle and bustle trying to get Farel Dalrymple’s new book promoted and ready for Stumptown Comics Fest, we haven’t really talked about our other debut of the show:

Study Group Magazine #2!

Yes, it’s true. We finally got it together. It’s here, and it’s beautiful. Same format as #1 but in classic SG Pink & Blue this time.

Art & Comics Contributions From:

Jesse Balmer

Lilli Carre

Michael Deforge

Jeremy Onsmith

Lark Pien

Tim Root

Kris Mukai

Mickey Z

Zack Soto

Trevor Alixopulos

JT Dockery

Dan Zettwoch

Julia Gfrorer

Jonny Negron

David King

Aidan Koch

Chris Kuzma

Sam Alden

And Comics Journalism by:

Rob Clough on Josh Bayer

JT Dockery visits with John Byrne

Milo George interviews Angie Wang (who provides our cover)

Sean Witzke on Baker & Helfer’s JUSTICE INC.

Zack Soto interviews Maré Odomo

64 oversized two-color pages, edited by Milo George & Zack Soto. Drops 4/27/13.

(art above by David King)

theprojectsnews: The Projects 2 is cooking! We have a new poster for showing off: art by Dunja...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:07:43 -0400

theprojectsnews:

The Projects 2 is cooking! We have a new poster for showing off: art by Dunja Jankovic and fonts by Bruno Tolic. Also, the dates are announced so mark your calendars ≈

otomblr: popjellyfish: Rereading AKIRA. Lady Miyako by Ian...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:47:14 -0400

otomblr:

popjellyfish:

Rereading AKIRA.

Lady Miyako by Ian MacEwan

Retumblin’. Because.

harveyjames: SPRINGFIELD IS ABOUT TO E•X•P•L•O•D•E Whew. Just...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:43:05 -0400

harveyjames:

SPRINGFIELD IS ABOUT TO E•X•P•L•O•D•E

Whew. Just assigned pages to over 300+ artists. Feel a bit like I just ran a marathon. Anyway, here’s the final cast for the Bartkira project. Some aspects of the cast list might be surprising, but I’m confident that you’ll see the logic and consideration that went into the choices I ended up making when you read the book. Believe me, I went through nearly every reasonable combination of characters and this roster works the best, in terms of character motivation and interaction.

Lisa is Lady Miyako. I don’t mind if the artists draw lisa as an old lady, a woman, a teen, or a little girl. Since she’s a powerful psychic, it’s reasonable to imagine that she’s capable of changing her appearance.

As for minor/background characters, that’ll be up to the artist to decide who they’re gonna slot in there. There’ll be no co-ordination on this aspect of it, so it should lead to some interesting results. I don’t mind if you put in generic background cast or known characters we’ll recognise.

If you want to see the artist roster as it stands right now, it’s here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvXKD7Va1OYedFJDeTJRSk41RDVhQ2NSNERSV3NkVnc#gid=0

Here’s the rules and guidelines for the project. This is going to be in the email I’m about to send out to all the contributors, but in the eventuality that you’re a contributor and you see this before I have a chance to send out the email, I may as well stick ‘em here too.

RULES AND GUIDELINES

I want to keep this as free-wheeling as possible, but I came up with a couple of rules to make sure the book reads nicely as a whole.

-Please put the page number bottom-centre of each page you work on. Be sure to write your name discreetly on the bottom right of the last page you do, too, so people will know it’s you.

-ALWAYS always change character names in the dialogue to their Simpsons equivalent. So Tetsuo is always ‘Milhouse’, ‘Akira’ is always ‘Ralph’. Mr. Nezu is always Mayor Quimby.

-When spoken in dialogue or narration, ALWAYS change the words “Neo-Tokyo” to ‘Springfield’. ‘Japan’ to ‘America’. ‘America’ is now ‘China’.

-however, DON’T change inner-city location names when they’re referred to in the dialogue. if you want to change the council chambers to look like Burnsie’s power plant, though, that’s up to you.

- it’s up to you whether a character wears their outfit from The Simpsons or their equivalent’s outfit in Akira. Sometimes costume changes are worked into the plot, though… so if Tetsuo puts on a cape or a fur coat, then you should probably give Milhouse a cape/fur coat too.

-in the few occasions where I’ve cast against gender, you should swap the gendered pronouns- so ‘Kiyoko is in her room’ becomes ‘Todd is in HIS room’.

-Make it awesome

SUBMITTING YOUR WORK

Eventually, I’m going to put this all together in one torrent file available for everyone to download. To make things easier on me, when you’re finished, send your work to the bartkiracommittee@gmail.com inbox in the following format:

Subject header: SUBMISSION

attach your files as one .zip file

JPEG format- highest quality compression

dimensions: 1020 x 1492

filename : Bartkira_X_pYYY.jpg (where X is the volume number and Y is the page number.)

DEADLINE IS MAY 24th!

Feel free to put your work on social media as soon as you’ve done it, too! There’s no moratorium on breaking ‘street date’, or anything like that. tag it with #bartkira, of course. and if you want to help out, include a link to my tumblr at harveyjames.tumblr.com, since we’re still in need of artists. I’m also @jamesharveytm on twitter.

GETTING THE BOOK

If you don’t have a copy of the book, you can get it from your local library- or pirate it via torrent software, so long as you buy it for real later. I’m sure it’s readable online in a bunch of different places. Don’t ask me for pages!

I could probably say a whole bunch more, but I feel like the less guidelines I give you, the more surprised we’re all going to be at the end.

Good luck!

“Embrace Nothingness” - Lisa Simpson

If you still want to apply, email bartkiracommittee@gmail.com.

So this is awesome, as I’m sure you’ve all seen by now. But I just noticed that Harvey James used my drawing of Lady Miyako for the character list! JEEEEZ, now I’m thinking of signing up to do it.

I did this illustration for Malachi Ward’s Star Trek blog,...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:22:00 -0400

I did this illustration for Malachi Ward’s Star Trek blog, for the TNG episode “Genesis”. In it, Lt. Barclay gets sick(I love any episode whose premise is “it’s Barclay’s fault”), and causes everyone on the Enterprise to devolve. Riker turns into a caveman, and Worf turns into a crustacean Predator beast who runs around the ship hunting Deanna Troi, who he bit and thinks is his mate(she’s also turning into a dolphin).

Rebumpin’ this cuz I’m thinking of maybe making...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:40:48 -0400

Rebumpin’ this cuz I’m thinking of maybe making prints of it hmmm

little Pom Poko sketch from a while back

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:10:48 -0400

little Pom Poko sketch from a while back

warm up sketch

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:14:43 -0400

warm up sketch

Oh btw, I’m doing the art/inspiration split tumblr thing now. Follow me here to see stuff I...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:03:34 -0400

Oh btw, I’m doing the art/inspiration split tumblr thing now. Follow me here to see stuff I like as opposed to stuff I draw:

http://tannhausergatorade.tumblr.com/

Couple more of this guy

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:59:11 -0400

Couple more of this guy

Couple of sketches of this kung fu character I was drawing a lot...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:19:00 -0400

Couple of sketches of this kung fu character I was drawing a lot of. Inspired by a lot of Jademan comics, I was trying to nail down how I’d like to use speed lines as a foreground active element rather a background one.

seanwitzke: Over at The Factual Opinion, we have a very special...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:35:29 -0400

seanwitzke:

Over at The Factual Opinion, we have a very special episode of our movie podcast, wherein racism specialist and Atlantic contributor David Brothers and I have a frank, measured discussion of racism in modern film. PLZ CHECK IT OUT.

kickstandkids: Camp Stokoe - Spring 2013

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:34:35 -0500

kickstandkids:

Camp Stokoe - Spring 2013

Kim Jung Gi’s remembrance of Korea’s March 1st...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:59:00 -0500

Kim Jung Gi’s remembrance of Korea’s March 1st movement

EDIT: timelapse video of him making it

Kim Jung Gi “He needs his hands hobbled, the...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:50:00 -0500

Kim Jung Gi

“He needs his hands hobbled, the bastard.” —James Stokoe