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Fake Tidings to All!

Fake Tidings to All!

The holiday season is in full swing, how do I know? Well for one thing everywhere you go they are playing Christmas music.  (I’m sorry I mean “winter holiday music”, although we all know that Christmas gets the biggest push here in the States.)  Another clue is the fact that I received 14–no I’m not [...]

December 1, 2009 Inside the Studio 0 Comments

12 Days of Christmas for Digital Colorists – Holiday Gift Guide

12 Days of Christmas for Digital Colorists – Holiday Gift Guide

It’s that time of year again, time to start thinking about your holiday list’s.  No matter if you are preparing for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or Chinese New Year (you already missed Ramadan, sorry) you need to let people know what you want.  There is no point in someone sending you socks when you could have [...]

November 18, 2009 Inside the Studio 8 Comments

An Ode to our Art

An Ode to our Art

So, I’m checking out FB the other day and notice that local artist/illustrator Tony Parker is talking about an article he is mentioned in.  Turns out that the dude who wrote the blog (where Tony directed us on FB) was really on NPR talking about comics and then wrote up what happened.  Did you follow [...]

November 10, 2009 Inside the Studio 3 Comments

Digital Re-visit

Digital Re-visit

We’ve already spoken about this briefly but I think it’s time to revisit… digital comics.  Now I’ve mentioned many times that I’m an avid reader and I read all types of things (the last thing I read was History of Cannibalism and it rocked!)
It seems that books, in general, are going digital.  Barnes & Noble [...]

November 3, 2009 Inside the Studio 3 Comments

Season’s Greetings

Season’s Greetings

I was wandering through the romance section at my local bookstore yesterday and noticed the halloween books are gone, the turkey day books are practically gone and we are inundated with Christmas stories.
Now the stories I’m talking about are compilations.  Several authors contribute to a “theme” book.  It’s romance so the theme can be anything [...]

October 27, 2009 Inside the Studio 0 Comments

Intimate or Overbearing?

Intimate or Overbearing?

Did you see this article at: http://comicimpact.com/2009/10/sdcc-10-sold-out/
San Diego Comic Con 2010 Sold Out
by Simon Daoudi on October 8th, 2009
In nine months you can make a baby, be married and divorced, get cured of cancer, watch every episode of Dr. Who ever aired (Trust me, I’ve done the last two). All these things and more [...]

October 8, 2009 Inside the Studio 2 Comments

Self Promotion

Self Promotion

So, one of my anthropology students (yes I teach anthropology at the college level) asked me to be a faculty sponsor for a Comic Book Club.  At first I thought well that’s pretty cool, then the pessimistic side of me said, yeah but that’s been done right? ….and then I really started thinking about the [...]

September 30, 2009 Inside the Studio 2 Comments

You Want it When?

You Want it When?

I’ve threatened to talk about this topic before but I have refrained, until today….
Can someone please explain to me how colorists are repeatedly supposed to color a book without art?  Ok, I’m sounding a little cranky here, let’s back up.
As we all know, colorists get the art last (along with letterers.)  We have to wait [...]

September 15, 2009 Inside the Studio 12 Comments

Perfidy & Pain

Perfidy & Pain

For those of you who pay attention to these kind of things, I normally post my articles on Wednesdays.  Today is Thursday (afternoon I might add) and my article is just now going up.
I have a reason, I have a massive toothache and I hate the dentist.  Now I could start a whole big debate [...]

September 3, 2009 Inside the Studio 2 Comments

The Future of Trees (& comics)

The Future of Trees (& comics)

So this week we have several projects coming out that we’ve worked on.  Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Batman: Brave & the Bold, Blackest Night-Titans and that’s just from DC.
These DC projects remind me of a conversation several of us were having at Con this summer.  In this fast-paced, print-on-demand, instant gratification world where does [...]

August 26, 2009 Inside the Studio 4 Comments
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