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Master Digital Color Talent Search 2010 – Part 2: Bruce McCorkindale

The Master Digital Color Talent Search 2010 is coming along amazingly so far! I hope you’ve had a chance to get over to the Pixel Shrine section of www.HueDoo.com and look over all the colored pieces that have been posted so far. You won’t be disappointed! And I hope that if you haven’t started coloring one [...]

June 16, 2010 Tribal Council 3 Comments

The Wait is Almost Over

So the wait is almost over, but the debate and controversy has just begun. When I entered into the comic book retail business six years ago, digital comics were already a reality. Comic books had tried to make the leap to digital format a number of times on different platforms and formats. [...]

April 2, 2010 Quarter Bin 3 Comments

24 Hour Comics Day Challenge

Can you imagine what you could accomplish if you just set aside a whole day of uninterrupted time? That what comic book creator and theorist Scott McCloud asked himself in 1990. He and his fellow artist, Steve Bissette, seemed to struggle to create more than one comic page a day. Yet, when Steve went to [...]

September 11, 2009 Quarter Bin 4 Comments

Cracking the Internet in half

In the five years since I’ve gone from being a comic book fan to comic book retailer I’ve heard news from Marvel that was supposed to crack the Internet in half. After all those years, they did it. In case this is the only website you ever read, Disney announced that they had [...]

August 31, 2009 Quarter Bin 1 Comment

Coloring Challenge #16: Hulking out with Tommy Patterson

Our exciting 16th challenge is featuring art from Tommy Patterson, artist on Boom Studio’s FarScape.

August 27, 2009 Tribal Council 0 Comments

Flatting: A Crash Course Part 2

Welcome back to another action packed edition of The Tribal Council! Last week we started taking a look at a subject that I know very well: Flatting. How about a little recap?
Thanks to Brian & Kristy Miller and their book Hi-Fi Color For Comics I’ve been flatting pretty close to full time for over a [...]

August 20, 2009 Tribal Council 1 Comment

Now serving…

It used to be that when you waited in line, you took a number and waited until you were called. Delis had them. Post Offices had them. They were everywhere. Things have changed and the number dispensers aren’t as prevalent anymore. What I liked about the number counts was that you knew where you stood. [...]

August 6, 2009 Quarter Bin 0 Comments

Fanboy Faux Pas – Six Degrees to Blackest Night

Sometimes Fanboy Faux Pas can have positive effects that extend beyond the object of fanboy affection. Attending my first San Diego Comic-con, I got into the groove of going to the signings at the DC Comics booth. My favorite character is Batman. I saw that Judd Winnick was signing and I had to see him. [...]

July 25, 2009 Quarter Bin 0 Comments

Fanboy Faux Pas – It gets ugly fast

For someone whose primary purpose of going to Cons is to meet comic book creators in the hopes that some day they might come to my shop to do a signing, I sure say some messed up things. Sensitive readers should stop reading past this point because it gets ugly real fast.
It was the spring [...]

July 25, 2009 Quarter Bin 1 Comment

A Big Week for Color & Comics!!

This week on HueDoo.com (in the pixel shrine) we’re unveiling a new Coloring Challenge! Our 15th challenge is presenting art by Michael Schwartz from his hit webcomic, Oceanverse!

July 21, 2009 Tribal Council 2 Comments