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Kingdom Peas
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Chris Onstad interview
A really interesting interview with a great webcomic author, I recommend it to you all, awesome 
“The Authors@Google program welcomed Chris Onstad to Google’s New York office to discuss his comic “Achewood” and his first graphic novel, “The Great Outdoor Fight”. He was interviewed by Google’s own Dan Bentley.
Chris Onstad is the creator of Achewood, “the strip you’ll wish you’d discovered as an underappreciated fifteen-year-old.” Onstad attended Stanford University, where he edited the Stanford Chapparal humor magazine. He lives in Northern California with his wife and daughter.
From Publishers Weekly-
“This handsome hardcover compilation of the popular Web comic Achewood follows the strip’s most epic story arc and should win many new fans. When Ray Smuckles, a thong-clad anthropomorphic cat, discovers his father was a champion of the Great Outdoor Fight, a yearly competition held in Bakersfield, Calif., he decides to enter the nearly ruleless three-day fight. Ray’s best friend, nicknamed Roast Beef, reveals himself to be an expert on the fight as well as a first-time entrant. Ray quickly finds that his soft life as a pencil-neck may not have prepared him for the brutal, masculine violence the 3,000-man fight promises, but stubbornly aims to win anyway, with Roast Beef as his ally and steadfast supporter. The humor works on many levels—from the absurd, unexpected characters, including a Soviet robot, to their quirky speech patterns. Onstad’s minimalist art leaves some of the larger action sequences taking place off-camera. Nevertheless, the narrative shines through as an epic battle rages and friendship between the protagonists deepens. Achewood devotees who know the story line will be pleased with the bonuses: long supplemental texts detailing the history of the fight and seven recipes from a fictional cookbook.”
This event took place on November 7,2008.”
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DeviantArt Muro
Deviantart launched a new painting application named MURO
celebrating Deviantart’s 10th anniversary.
Painting interfaces aren’t new, everyone knows that, but the difference here it’s the programming behind, instead of flash they’re using html5, and it’s really interesting to see the options we can have, there’s a Premium option to buy more brushes as well and the option of using layers.
I think it’s really good for sketching and if you’re really great at it you could paint really awesome drawings as you can see in the gallery section.
You can upload directly to deviantart if you’re registered there, or you can export from the Application in PNG format.
Another great option for the artist in you in a great creative website, have a go and draw already!
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Sharpie Liquid Pencil
While i was reading some posts on Sharpie, I found this news about the new Sharpie Liquid Pencil, they say that they invented a pen that works like a pencil it uses liquid graphite, with this drawing tool we could make a sketch and use all the great effects we can have using the gradations of shadows with a graphite pencil, and erase any mistakes we could make during work, and then, after 24 to 36 hours (according to Sharpie) it becomes permanent on paper. It’s really great because when drawing on a sketch book the drawings tend to become messy and all smudgy. I haven’t tried it yet so if you already did, tell me something about it, I’m really curious.
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Birthday is coming
ah… Sweet birthday, 18th July, and I’ve made a wishlist.
I’ll say what are the things that I’d like to have and at the same time it could help you with ideas to buy something geek for someone you care about or just for yourselves. Here it is:
A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Viking – The Long Cold Fire by Ivan Brandon
New Album from Laurie Anderson
Little Nothings by Lewis Trondheim
Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Cyanide and Happiness: I’m Giving You the Finger (Hardback)
By: Robert DenBleyker, Dave McElfatrick, Matt Melvin and Kris Wilson.
As you can see they’re all awesome!
Cheers!
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I bought today a new graphic novel, called Logicomix, from Greece, i began reading it while on the store, and decided that I neede to take this work of art, beautiful art, great colors, and a storyline quite compelling. Here’s a summary of the graphic novel from their site (yes they even have a website!)
Covering a span of sixty years, the graphic novel Logicomix was inspired by the epic story of the quest for the Foundations of Mathematics.
This was a heroic intellectual adventure most of whose protagonists paid the price of knowledge with extreme personal suffering and even insanity. The book tells its tale in an engaging way, at the same time complex and accessible. It grounds the philosophical struggles on the undercurrent of personal emotional turmoil, as well as the momentous historical events and ideological battles which gave rise to them.
The role of narrator is given to the most eloquent and spirited of the story’s protagonists, the great logician, philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell. It is through his eyes that the plights of such great thinkers as Frege, Hilbert, Poincaré, Wittgenstein and Gödel come to life, and through his own passionate involvement in the quest that the various narrative strands come together.
As you can see… Comics CAN be culture
Here is the Link for their website <—- click that!
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Doodle gallery
Hello people,
Made some adjustments on the gallery, now it’s much better, gotta love wordpress
Click here for the jump
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A sneak peek
Here’s a sneak peek about our pea adventurers.
I decided to doodle for a bit, and i had this idea to make a pin-up shot for the group… be careful there may be a spoiler or too… we never know eheh. And yes i’m planning to finish the drawing.
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A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
I saw this book on a bookstore… i really have to have this one… i went trough a few pages and i was stunned, it has 840 pages of Mangá… lots and lots of reading material… here’s a small summary that I found on Amazon.com:
Tatsumi revolutionized manga in the 1950s, inventing gekiga—seething, slice-of-life stories about emotional crises. In this elephantine memoir (in which he barely disguises himself as Hiroshi Katsumi), he tells the story of his early years in the comics business, from his teenage obsession with entering postwar magazines’ reader-cartoon contests and poring over Osamu Tezuka’s comics to the brief late-’50s heyday of the gekiga workshop over which he presided. It’s also a history of Japan in that era, filtered through Tatsumi’s own experience—the sound of cicadas is a recurring symbol of portentousness—and packed with digressions on cartooning technique, the movies and prose fiction that inspired him, and his nervous flirtations with women; the passage of time is marked by illustrated factoids about each year’s headlines. Tatsumi’s visual technique is very much a product of an earlier generation—his characters’ faces are simple, broad caricatures—but the mastery he’s gained in half a century of cartooning comes through in his immaculate staging and composition. Readers curious about Japanese comics history may find the book’s wealth of detail fascinating; for the most part, though, Tatsumi’s vivid, graceful dramatizations of the period’s shifting business and creative alliances don’t quite justify the tedious, repetitive hybrid of bildungsroman and industry time line he’s created.
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Pencil – Animation program
I found this animation program with the name: PENCIL, it has a simple name, and it’s a simple program and it’s completely free. All you need to do is draw all animation frames by hand, No tweening or any kind of shortcuts to make it faster, so as you can imagine is not for anyone, I guess that you must have a passion for animation.
But don’t be inhibited by it, try this program, I am sure that you’ll find very interesting, click here to download
This clip here was made in Pencil by Furbawl (Youtube Nickname), lovely work don’t you think?
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Ipad Comics
IPAD is already on sale, and the first thing I thought was: Hmm, how will read comics using the device?
And now, it seems to me something interesting, I’ve been watching videos on the topic and I confess that I liked, and there’s the bonus … must be very interesting to draw ehehe.
The only downside is the price bothers me a bit to pay more for it, even though I love the things that Apple puts up for sale.
We may have to wait for alternatives, Apple is also good for this, serves to develop the technology of other brands, and in the end the winner is the consumer.
If you click the video below, you can see how this child is what moves smoothly and has only 4 years old. I think it’s a good way to see how this tool and its future changes could make things very interesting in the world of comics.
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