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Becky cloonan has a livejournal syndication for her blogger feed. This solves the "do I use blogger, or do I use livejournal" delema, and now I might consider useing a blog regularly, actually.
Any way, you kids in or around the comic biz may want to add her, her last entry was about her idea to pitch a comic to marvel where Gambit discovers he's the second coming of Christ. As far as I can tell, she's working on at least two major comics that I can pick up in my (well, reisterstown is not so local, BUT..) local comic book store, East Coast Riseing, and American Virgin. She dose ECR all by herself and aperently the publisher, tokoypop found some way to get slave labor out of young ambitious american artists. The format is a small, reader's digest size paper back, 150+ pages I thing called OGN format. I thought Becky's art was kind of comprimized with the crazy size reduction, but she's messing with different sized panels for ECR2. She says there's been talk of making ECR into an animated movie. She lived in new york, then PA for a while, now I think she's back in brooklyn. It's encouraging to know not only is she suporting herself on COMIX, but she's living in NYC, where the cost of living is kind of outrageous. I think Becky's like 27, no degree but I did find out she's had some college classes and recomends them, suggesting, "He who teaches himself has a fool for a teacher", (or something close to that).
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Brandon Graham's King City is also in this OGN format and I think he says it's crazy to work on too. Brandon started out drawing erotica, porn comics, with names like "Pillow Fight". I think he has cancer. He's 30, and I think lives in seattle. I think I might be more excited about King City than ECR, but I may also have taken ECR for granted.
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Personally, I'm not sure if my career is going to fall more on the comic/illustraitor side, or the fine arts/painter side. I'm seriously thinking about just going for my bachler's degree at MICA this fall, and maybe even the master's program in painting, but I don't know about having a huge amount of debt in student loans. I know college will be at the very least a good place to meet talented people, and they have career advisers who can tell me the best way to sell my work and still maintain my dignity. I may go for a year and deside that's enough. I may try the painting 2 class at cationsville in june, considering it's only about $600 and I might be able to take it practically for free if I submit FAFSA. I might have the confidence by then to say, "screw it, I can do this on my own". Who knows at this point. But I do know I have no idea how to spell cationsville, and I'm not conserned enough with live journal to care this time. About that, or any of the other misspelled words.
Any way, you kids in or around the comic biz may want to add her, her last entry was about her idea to pitch a comic to marvel where Gambit discovers he's the second coming of Christ. As far as I can tell, she's working on at least two major comics that I can pick up in my (well, reisterstown is not so local, BUT..) local comic book store, East Coast Riseing, and American Virgin. She dose ECR all by herself and aperently the publisher, tokoypop found some way to get slave labor out of young ambitious american artists. The format is a small, reader's digest size paper back, 150+ pages I thing called OGN format. I thought Becky's art was kind of comprimized with the crazy size reduction, but she's messing with different sized panels for ECR2. She says there's been talk of making ECR into an animated movie. She lived in new york, then PA for a while, now I think she's back in brooklyn. It's encouraging to know not only is she suporting herself on COMIX, but she's living in NYC, where the cost of living is kind of outrageous. I think Becky's like 27, no degree but I did find out she's had some college classes and recomends them, suggesting, "He who teaches himself has a fool for a teacher", (or something close to that).
stabstabstab.deviantart.com
Brandon Graham's King City is also in this OGN format and I think he says it's crazy to work on too. Brandon started out drawing erotica, porn comics, with names like "Pillow Fight". I think he has cancer. He's 30, and I think lives in seattle. I think I might be more excited about King City than ECR, but I may also have taken ECR for granted.
royalboiler.deviantart.com
Personally, I'm not sure if my career is going to fall more on the comic/illustraitor side, or the fine arts/painter side. I'm seriously thinking about just going for my bachler's degree at MICA this fall, and maybe even the master's program in painting, but I don't know about having a huge amount of debt in student loans. I know college will be at the very least a good place to meet talented people, and they have career advisers who can tell me the best way to sell my work and still maintain my dignity. I may go for a year and deside that's enough. I may try the painting 2 class at cationsville in june, considering it's only about $600 and I might be able to take it practically for free if I submit FAFSA. I might have the confidence by then to say, "screw it, I can do this on my own". Who knows at this point. But I do know I have no idea how to spell cationsville, and I'm not conserned enough with live journal to care this time. About that, or any of the other misspelled words.