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Sun - February 5, 2006the farm gallery showour friend allie cermak made knitted cats. one of
them was
cracker.
     Posted at 08:47 AM Permalink | Sat - February 4, 2006kansas city comic artist activity updates week of 01.29.06 - 02.04.06 aaron
williams' PS238 is coming out. bill
hook is in the preview section this month. chris
garrett enters the dungeon; but his progress is slowed by the
moonfall
comic.
daniel spottswood revamps his site and his characters in the preview section confront the thing that is the deli and the sandwich engineer therein. dustin hoffman begins an attack. greg smallwood's blog is here. the mysterious heavy water does more work. jason arnett brings us the risers archive and gives me good bird flu news. maybe. joel pfannenstiel offers 250% less suck. battle rages in john fortman's fallen angels. kelly sue deconnick raises an eyebrow at miller highlife. kyle strahm gives us more clockwork and crib notes. mark stinson gives us ghosts and violence. matt fraction is in cupertino; also, the moon smells like gunpowder. (take note, moonfall folks!). michael buckley--well, he means well anyway. parrish baker didn't have much to say this week. rob schamberger to the contrary did. scott ziolko's abe awesome is available at rock bottom comics.* seth wolfshorndl has a new blog. stephanie iser updates both blogs. steven sanders is lining up another publisher. travis fox pimps the oscars in the preview section. the boards were extremely busy with all categories updated. all you blogspot people, it should probably come as no surprise that blogspot/blogger's down this evening, so i'll have to amend your updates later. BLOGSPOT UPDATE: some alarming photos from dennis hopeless, greg smallwood covers the gamut, lee leslie works on more royals stuff, and shane thayer honors dormancy. ______________ *Rock Bottom Comics (573) 443-0113 1029 E Walnut St, Columbia, MO (map) Posted at 08:41 PM Permalink | Fri - February 3, 2006first fridaywell, as usual first fridays lived to disappoint.
from the paint splotches by scot sinclair at the leedy-voulkos in Old Leedyville to the
uninteresting pottery at the Pi Gallery next to grinders in New Leedyville,
it was a dull as dishwater night. almost the only things we liked was allie's
knitted cats at the Farm Gallery, the artomat at the Pi, and john raux's*
miniature paintings at jacob's
well.
the only up side was that the crowds were very thin, and the evening chilly. still, lots of changes all over Old Leedyville . . . and New Leedyville seems thin and sickly yet. ________________ *he of the footballzine. Posted at 11:23 PM Permalink | Wed - February 1, 2006project runwayman, we were sad to see andre go. that was a
tough challenge.
daniel will make olympus fashion week, of that we are sure. Posted at 10:27 PM Permalink | Tue - January 31, 2006broadway groupright now the broadway smells an awful lot like fresh
paint.
everyone was there, more or less in shifts; but we called it a night early. Posted at 09:43 PM Permalink | Mon - January 30, 2006Sun - January 29, 2006my new favorite comics website . . .. . . is dave's long
box. dave is one funny guy. i don't read marvel or DC or even dark
horse, but i know enough about their universes to go by. but even if i didn't,
i'd find this stuff funny.
i can't stop reading it! Posted at 09:09 AM Permalink | for your amusementmy work, such as it is, was used in a class at
perdue in 2003 taught by one tof eklund. on this page his students (communications majors, i
believe,) comment and criticize on several comics, including mine. as a whole,
they did not approve of sparrow's fall artistically or understand it
conceptually. i feel quite vindicated.
Posted at 07:05 AM Permalink | Sat - January 28, 2006kansas city comic artist activity updates week of 01.22.06 - 01.28.06you know the old trick to make
family
circus and
marmaduke
funny? you switch their captions. it works about half the time--better than the
succes rate of both comics played straight. well, aaron
williams points out a link to a similar method for making garfield
interesting. (and almost funny.) bonnie leigh begs you to join blingo. dan jacobson supports dorian's meme. i hope you are following daniel
spottswood's comic in the preview, because it's getting tough for his
characters--tougher than usual, i should say. dustin hoffman
uses his Wacom, or an 05 micron. (let's start a pool on
that!)
greg gildersleeve asks you what comic characters you identify with. (why, turok, son of stone, of course! the original everyman. [what the hell m i talking about?]) greg smallwood's comic in the preview this week focussed on exhibitionism at the mall . . . i hope that no friends were hurt in the making of that comic. heavy water puts up a bunch of new pages. he's really, really good. jason arnett gives us "risers" and bigfoot. all hell breaks loose in john fortman country. kelly sue deconnick knits while captain applejack recuperates. kevin gritzke has less happy dog news, whilst wolverine is ripped in half by the hulk. kyle strahm has a cover. michael buckley gives us his final piece for life of pi. in keeping with animal sadness, mike sullivan catblogs a beautiful little drawing. parrish baker . . . well, you're here, so i guess you know how that's playing out. rob schamberger keeps up the excitement. gas grenades! stephanie iser updates yalibrarian. travis fox comments on the booth babe ban at e3. the boards were modestly busy with all categories updated save websites and, once again, show & tell. pretty slow week, all in all. Posted at 06:43 PM Permalink | Wed - January 25, 2006Tue - January 24, 2006broadway groupbushman, spottswood, leigh, baker,
and--lurking--stolfus.
buckley might have come later? but we leave early these days and don't see him, because of our early morning schedules. Posted at 09:51 PM Permalink | Sun - January 22, 2006MOCCAwell, our MOCCA stuff is off . . . hopefully
we'll get a table. i sound full of doubt, but i'm not. now
what
table we get, i don't know.
Posted at 06:55 PM Permalink | top shelf has a new blogjust in case you missed it--it's called hey,
bartender, and is written by brett warnock.
Posted at 06:40 PM Permalink | Sat - January 21, 2006kansas city comic artist activity updates week of 01.15.06 - 01.21.06aaron
williams' nodwick 31 is
coming out soon--yay! and he refers us to a completely diseased version of spiderman
from japan.
possibly because i am a racist bastard i haven't ever thought to put alonzo washington in the List; but i have now. i first encountered his comics work in the early 1990s . . . they look rather like they did then, but just a bit crazier. i recommend rummaging around through his site at length. i 'specially like his portrayal of local tv news executives in his expose of the precious doe case. i can just hear larry moore saying 'suck head activist' etc. in my head. however . . . . i think alonzo misses the mark here . . . . tv news here ate this story up and couldn't get enough of it or him. from AR's site: "Lunar-Circuitry is undergoing renovation and redesign. Please be patient as everything gets posted. Until then stop by one of the following subsites . . . " b. clay moore waxes sports-philosophical. byron dunn is blogging slowly and sporadically. the fight scene over at chris garrett has me waiting for more. what's in that chamber? duane cunningham: go, duane, go! (but steer clear of the zieglerisms!) dustin dade is on the List--two links. dustin hoffman continues to web-comic it. i never much liked web comics: they sacrifice craft for speed, for the most part. heavy water updates with a birthday present. more "risers" from jason arnett. jeremy mohler discovers chris garrett. john fortman's demi-ferengi continue to act up. kelly sue deconnick reports on dog surgery (successful!) kevin gritzke hates superman; superman hates imports. i like the way kyle strahm draws old people. lee leslie's george bush evolves. matt fraction talks up lookwell. (the second youtube link in this post . . . . hmmm.) michael buckley uploads some of his sketches for life of pi. parrish baker . . . oy, vey. rob schamberger contends with fountains of urine. oy, vey! scott hassler provides us with a . . . rather dramatic photo. seth wolfshorndl posts links to comic book podcasts. shaun gray reviews comics and reports the bad gocco news. stephanie iser talks about what yalibrarian is all about. travis fox , who looks just like apolo anton ohno, gives us music picks. the boards were modestly busy with all categories save welcome, websites, and show & tell (!!) updated.. Posted at 09:23 AM Permalink | Tue - January 17, 2006broadway groupthe
broadway is under serious reconstruction and modification--but the broadway
group met there again.
man, it looks the same--but it doesn't. ya know? drop by and check it out. Posted at 09:10 PM Permalink | Mon - January 16, 2006SKETCH JAM - 2.11.06 @ Roasterie Cafe @ 11:00 AMDate: Saturday, February 11th, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM Place: Roasterie Cafe in Brookside. Moderator: Scott Hassler The Roasterie has lots of space, plenty of lighting, lots of big comfy chairs, and it has really good coffee. Posted at 05:44 PM Permalink | Sat - January 14, 2006painting classesscott hassler is also thinking about offering painting classes, so head his way to
enquire about this.
Posted at 08:06 PM Permalink | EIGHT HOUR COMIC SESSION - Sunday, January 22nd, 2006Date: Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
Time: Place: The Crave Cafe, 1615 W 39th St, KCMO (Six blocks from KU Med Center) Moderator: Rob Schamberger rob's going to be at the Crave next sunday doing an 8-page, 8-hour comic . . . Posted at 07:51 PM Permalink | scotty skyrockettoday i saw some precursor sketches for sullivan
and schamberger's scotty skyrocket in mike
sullivan's sketchbook today* and i'm pretty excited for april to get
here. there were some pretty cool looking aliens there, including a nasty, buggy
looking one who probably goes drinking with zorak.
mike thinks he has a whole lot of work to do in the next few weeks. ______________ *i actually typed sketchblog first . . . get off the internet! Posted at 07:39 PM Permalink | |
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...somewhere between the city of the poor and the city of the not-so-poor, a long ways from heaven but not quite in hell, is a neighborhood where the people are mad and the animals are sane, where armadillos are on the wrestling circuit and dogs go to art school. If you see god, or aliens, or if you go to group with a neurotic otter, you live there. Only one question: did he fall, or was he pushed? who makes it? parrish baker, kansas city comic artist since at least 1995, was born as the old sepia-tone world was finally fading away, four days before nixon narrowly won a first term in the white house. parrish grew up in the countryside of missouri, not quite in the plains but neither quite in the ozarks. the summers are hot there, and the winters cold, and there is often a great deal of wind. eventually he received an adequate education--primary, secondary, and college, and even bothered to get a master's degree in a useless topic. he walked out of the halls of academe into the heart of a recession. moving to kansas city, he luckily found a temporary job that lasted twelve years before he decided that it had become permanent, and decided to move on to other endeavors. somewhere along there he began drawing mini-comics . . . or something like drawing . . . judge for yourself . . . he still lives in kansas city, drawing his ridiculous indy comics like there was no tomorrow. of course--if you watch the news . . . just what is it about comics in kansas city? The year was 1996. Or 1997. Your call. 1995 . . . 1996 . . . 1997 . . . 1998 . . . a golden age for comic book art in Kansas City. 40 Oz. Comics was alive and well, and, most importantly, here, Jim Mahfood’s Grrlscouts and Cosmic Toast were in wide circulation, and Thereyago! Studios was about to produce the first (and last) issue of Meanwhile... and other folk were busy drafting out comics and cartoons left and right. Like all Periclean ages, it was probably better in memory than in reality, and like all such ages, it did not spring out overnight and from nowhere, but drew, god knows, its strength largely from the illustration department of the Kansas City Art Institute. People who could draw and people who had something to say walked and breathed amongst us, and we were willing to listen. Amongst those paying close attention was a youngish scrawler who, encouraged, authored the dreadful comic book Calyx, after sitting in the Broadway Cafe for the better part of a year pretending to teach himself drawing. This little science-fictional horror fading instantly from collective memory, he looked for something else to create. Why did he do it at all? Obviously he was talent-free, that much at least could be said. He felt, nonetheless, that he wanted to say something, and in those days saying something seemed possible, mandatory even. An emotional catastrophe had taken the ability to write from him; the inability to draw would have seemed to conspire keep him in his place. He ignored reality, however, persisting in making wretched things that are safely contained, like industrial waste, in sketchbooks to this day. If he’d had half a brain, he would have despaired. But he didn’t. Chance encounters with no less than two possums birthed the characters of Possum and Hot-Dog onto paper; a failed attempt to sell the idea to the Pitch cemented a thick distaste for that paper that survives to this day. However, the Possum flourished, and, by a metamorphosis whose details have been lost to memory, a little cartoon called Sparrow’s Fall was born. Little of Kansas City’s comics heyday remains: an unfortunate exception is Sparrow’s Fall. It has endured, continuously published, since November 1996. The author of this long spiel of angst, irritation, and occasional perverse humor can’t understand why. More to the point, he can’t understand why other people do not try to hide his dreck with work of their own. It is becoming urgently necessary that people do it. Our culture is becoming suffocated with one great universal Voice, the AOL-TimeWarner-Disney/ABC/CBS giant that neither is interested in, nor wishes to hear, what we have to say. Comics, believe it or not, are an important part of the resistance. They and zines (which also seem dead, evidently a victim of the internet,) occupy a corner of visual and textual media the entertainment giants simply cannot fill or block. We must have a voice, we must draw, we must write. If not to drown out AOL altogether--then at least to distract attention from that dreadful Sparrow’s Fall. The author is gloomy. Where are the Mike Huddlestons, Jim Mahfoods, Daniel Spottswoods, and Scot Stolfuses of tomorrow? And why aren’t there more women here in Kansas City doing comics? Well . . . maybe one is looking at this right now. If you are--put it down right now, and start drawing. Kansas City Comics Community
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