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Oh my god is that TERRY?!

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Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California, March 20, 1924

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THE COMIC READER 100, August 1973 A very-advance look at the Dollar Comics WORLD'S FINEST, featuring Superman, Batman, Shazam and a very off-model Green Arrow, by Jack Kirby

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PLANET EARTH III 2023, Episode 02: Ocean - featuring the Pearl Octopus

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NEW STICKERS JUST DROPPED

Have at ’em

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Countdown to Amazing Spider-Man #1000/36 (2026) : 1998's Amazing Spider-Man Vol.2 #1 (LGY : #442) cover by John Romita Junior, inker John Romita Senior and colorist José Villarrubia. Source

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Trust me , he's friendly.

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Tips for Non-Artists on Writing Your First Comic, part 1.

Learning to write prose is tough, and it can take years of struggle to grasp the basics. You have to understand construction, character, theme, pacing, the effects of word choice, the specifics of your subject and so much more.  Learning to write a collaborative form like comics just adds new troubles and traps as you run into the difficulties inherent in the medium, or specific to the people you're working with.

I've been the first collaborator for a number of writers on their first comic, and it's gone pretty well.  (I'll brag here: One project got an Eisner Award nomination, another got four Einser noms, and another made it into a Year's Best anthology and helped the writer land a movie deal.) And I've also watched as artists I know worked with first-time writers on collaborations that didn't turn out too well. So I thought I'd share some observations and suggestions that might be useful to writers new to the medium. I've got ten of these tips. Here are the first three:

1. Read a bunch of comics.

This is primary. You're telling a story in a complicated medium with its own rules, rhythms, and quirks. You should have a sense for what other people have done with it. Read triumphs, near-successes and outright failures. Read well beyond the genre you intend to write. There are valuable lessons everywhere. (I've noted before that one of the biggest influences on an adult crime comic I drew was John Stanley's Little Lulu.)

You can find plenty of best-of and must-read lists online. Librarians and comic shop owners will have good suggestions, too.

Read analytically. Look at what works and what doesn't and try to take the successes apart to see how they function. Like this.

2. Ask yourself: Why is this story a comic?

There are so many writers with an unsold screenplay who have decided that they could just "turn it into a comic." They're not aware of the contempt they're communicating for both their own work and for the medium they expect to work in. It's obvious when someone is treating a comic as a movie pitch, or trying to shoehorn filmic action and dialogue into panels. Respect for a medium means building your story around things the medium can do well.

3. If you aren't working with an established publisher, finding an artist will be tough.

The most common question I hear from first time writers is "How do I find an artist?" One answer is money. If you can pay a competitive rate, you can always hire a skilled artist to be your collaborator. This isn't cheap. If you've established yourself in some other medium, your clout from that can help you find someone who wants to work with you. If you don't have money, or a rep from outside comics, you'll need to network like crazy, in person and online, using every means available to make connections with artists, or people who could introduce you to artists. It will be slow and difficult.

Here's Part 2.

And Part 3.

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Okay, here’s a new one.

In a new paper published in Physical Review D, the researchers propose a new model for the origin of the Universe - claiming that its formation is the result of a gravitational collapse that generated a massive black hole, followed by a ‘bounce’ inside, which means that our universe may have emerged from the interior of a black hole formed within a larger parent universe. They are calling the new model the ‘Black Hole Universe’, offering a radically different view of cosmic origins which is grounded entirely in known physics and observations The paper suggests that rather than the birth of the Universe being from nothing, it is the continuation of a cosmic cycle - one shaped by gravity, quantum mechanics, and the deep interconnections between them. While the existing standard cosmological model, based on the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, has been successful in explaining the structure and evolution of the Universe, it leaves some fundamental questions unanswered.  Professor Gaztanaga said: “The Big Bang model begins with a point of infinite density where the laws of physics break down. This is a deep theoretical problem that suggests the beginning of the Universe is not fully understood.  “We’ve questioned that model and tackled questions from a different angle -  by looking inward instead of outward. Instead of starting with an expanding Universe and asking how it began, we considered what happens when an overdensity of matter collapses under gravity.”

(See also "Kicking The Can Up/Down The Road", Universe Creation variant...)

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1988's Concrete Vol.1 #10 cover by artist Paul Chadwick.

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Here’s some fanart I drew way back when for Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth.

Brush & ink on heavily textured paper.

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Drew a Robin Hood poster!

Some details:

I've been trying to get back in the groove of doing my inks traditionally instead of digitally:

I did the roughs for this one (pen, black marker, and watercolor) in a sketchbook quite a while back; finals ended up looking pretty much the same:

(if you want this one on your wall, I'm printing some on heavy natural-stock 11x17)

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I think that "specialty sketch" on the back is all Leialoha. There's no sign of pencils there.

Original Art - Howard The Duck #05 Pg 31 (1976) by Gene Colan And Steve Leialoha

From ha.com...

The Feathered Fury clocks the Man Mountain Clout in this final page from "I Want Mo-o-oney!" The page has an image area of 10" x 15". Some light soiling and glue stains; otherwise the art is in Very Good condition. Signed along the top edge by Gene Colan and along the bottom edge by Steve Leialoha. Includes a specialty sketch of Howard on the back penciled by Colan and inked by Leialoha.

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Source details and larger version.

I’ve collected quite a few vintage dragons – see what treasures they’re guarding!

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@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.

Those source links are here

cambridge.org

Youtube

ucl.ac.uk

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I knew George Takei was a big public transit guy but I didn't know he was running around doing ads for random bus systems

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Information desk at John F. Kennedy Airport, (1956).