Who writes comics?

Ms. Haiku

I have a book, "Making Comics," by Scott McCloud that I like. What other books would you suggest?

Amongst the Ani

Rob writes comics. They are true story comics about what life was like in the 1800's. Look up his work.

lolobugg

Mr. TSURT

Sea

Amongst the Ani said:

Rob writes comics. They are true story comics about what life was like in the 1800's. Look up his work.

Cool. Where can we find these comics?

Degeneratefk

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deadendp

Sea said:

Amongst the Ani said:

Rob writes comics. They are true story comics about what life was like in the 1800's. Look up his work.

Cool. Where can we find these comics?

Perhaps under a tiny blanket somewhere in Philly. (Kidding with you.)

Rob is a wonderful illustrator and would bust out some fabulous comics.

Amongst the Ani

Sea said:

Amongst the Ani said:

Rob writes comics. They are true story comics about what life was like in the 1800's. Look up his work.

Cool. Where can we find these comics?

Much like a lot of PJ merch they were only released in a very limited quantity and are very hard to get your hands on. I will watch out for a copy for you.

Degeneratefk

Rob only allows a limited number of people at any given time to view his material.

Sea

Well then in the mean time, lets get back to the original topic. Thank you for respecting topic integrity and not derailing discussions from the original post.

lolobugg

Mr. TSurt

Degeneratefk

Snorting whiskey, Drinking cocaine is great

deadendp

I'm a Calvin and Hobbes fan myself. Not sure that was the direction you were wanting.

A local artist, Dennis Kramer, used to do some work for my husband at the park system he used to work for. He was an illustrator and comic strip guy. Tried to track him down. He is an odd guy. Used to walk around barefoot everywhere he went. There is a possibility that he changed his name to Dennis Crabapple McClain. I have no idea. He would strike me as a book guy.

Josh Davis is a previous coworker of mine. He had an illustration piece in the Conan O'Brien show a few years back. Not positive that he did comic strips but his illustrations would definitely lend to something that could work for that. No books, but a fabulous artist.

Matt Miller. https://www.facebook.com/artofmattmiller Used to work with Matt, too. Love Matt. Miss him. Another illustrator, but spans his art into several directions. Just came back from a year in France with his fiancee. He's now running around Akron and doing great things. Again, no book, but a great artist who would have work that could work for that. So, I'm not saying that he hasn't done comic strip work.

Tangential additions, but gorgeous additions. Dennis would be your comic strip book guy-- if you can find him.

Ms. Haiku

Thank you, deadendp!

Can anyone suggest books on how to draw comics?

brianlux

I'm fairly sure we have a few at the store but I'm working at home today. I'll try to remember to look at what we have and check out some titles for you, Ms Haiku.

EchoesOnMars

Like my terrible vinyl addiction, I also have a comic book addiction. Depends what kind of market you're into. Plenty of good superhero books I could suggest, but I know a lot of good stand out graphic novels that aren't superhero related.

Enkidu

One of my goals when I was young was to write and draw for MAD magazine. I used to draw movie and book parodies - I did a fake romance comic back when I was in college. (These days I like graphic novels, like Maus and Fun Home.)

brianlux

^^^

Enkidu said:

One of my goals when I was young was to write and draw for MAD magazine. I used to draw movie and book parodies - I did a fake romance comic back when I was in college. (These days I like graphic novels, like Maus and Fun Home.)

Persimmons! Haha, I love it!

brianlux

Here's all I came up with today, Ms Haiku, but they look like good books

The Cartoonist's Work Book by Robin Hall ISBN 0-8069-9673-0

The Complete Book of Caricaturing by Bob Staake, ISBN 0-89134-367-9

Hope that helps!

Ms. Haiku

brianlux said:

I'm fairly sure we have a few at the store but I'm working at home today. I'll try to remember to look at what we have and check out some titles for you, Ms Haiku.

Thank you, brianlux!

Ms. Haiku

EchoesOnMars said:

Like my terrible vinyl addiction, I also have a comic book addiction. Depends what kind of market you're into. Plenty of good superhero books I could suggest, but I know a lot of good stand out graphic novels that aren't superhero related.

Non-superhero-type, EchoesOnMars

JWPearl

http://au.blurb.com/comic-books?gclid=CJiqrujr4s4CFYSVvAodpjoAmw