I haven't posted a link to my recent Leon Beyond strips in a while, so here they are:
...and remember, there's still a SALE going on if you'd like to pick up some of the collections.
6/22/2012
Recent Amazing Facts
...and remember, there's still a SALE going on if you'd like to pick up some of the collections.
6/20/2012
6/12/2012
6/11/2012
6/09/2012
6/06/2012
Out and About
Dan Zettwoch and I will be signing our new books Gloriana and Birdseye Bristoe at Quimby's, Friday, June 15.
Plus we'll be at CAKE that weekend (with Ted May and Mardou). I will be on a panel with old friends John Porcellino and Anders Nilsen.
In St. Louis June 22:
And then we will be signing at Star Clipper on June 22. Refreshments will follow.
6/03/2012
BIG LEON SALE
***SALE SALE SALE SALE***
Over at the Catastrophe Shop, all AMAZING FACTS AND BEYOND Collections have been marked down from $5 to $3 each! That's all 5 for just $15! For a Limited Time!* ACT NOW. We're into our 5th year now on this strip, and all of them have been uploaded FREE to the Leon Beyond Blog. The collections contain extras like behind the scenes Introductions and useful "Beyondexes" for cross-referencing. The first and fourth collections have screen-printed covers.
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*but probably for a while
Over at the Catastrophe Shop, all AMAZING FACTS AND BEYOND Collections have been marked down from $5 to $3 each! That's all 5 for just $15! For a Limited Time!* ACT NOW. We're into our 5th year now on this strip, and all of them have been uploaded FREE to the Leon Beyond Blog. The collections contain extras like behind the scenes Introductions and useful "Beyondexes" for cross-referencing. The first and fourth collections have screen-printed covers.
Collections:
#2 Fact Parader
#4 Brain Dump
Each one has its peculiar charms!
Tell a friend!
*but probably for a while
5/31/2012
5/29/2012
5/24/2012
5/22/2012
5/19/2012
5/16/2012
5/12/2012
Five Sleepy Firemen
-from Five Little Firemen, by Margaret Wise Brown and Edith Thacher Hurd, pictures by Tibor Gergely.
5/09/2012
5/06/2012
Gloriana covers
This was my inspiration/source for the Gloriana cover.
Here is the first pass -- all agreed it was too plain.
There were also many other attempts, other styles, best forgotten... Here's one that isn't too bad.
5/02/2012
4/04/2012
Timelines
A bundle of beautiful timelines posted over at the Dave Rumsey Map Collection. Many of these are featured and discussed in Cartographies of Time, one of my favorite books I read last year.
Making timelines* seems to be one of those things that we can do on computers very easily now, using gestures and drag-and-drop, instead of the nightmare interface of something like this.
I wanted to add some more to this post, so here's some other TIMELINE links that I came across in about 10 minutes of searching. I haven't done in-depth research or anything. Also -- if you're searching for "timeline" on google you'll want to add "-facebook," to filter out a billion mentions of Facebook's (badly designed) timeline feature.
BeeDocs Timeline App
Verite Timeline App (play with the coal industry power play timeline)
SIMILE Timeline Widget
Tiki-Toki
ChronoZoom Project
Wikipedia list of timelines
Hyperhistory (oldstyle, charming)
Add more in comments if you want. There's gotta be some huge, Wikipedia-type timeline somewhere on the web, right? I thought I saw something like that once, but I couldn't find it just now.
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*...and mindmaps, 3D environments, nested documents, etc....
UPDATES:
Here's an interactive timeline thing called "Here is Today."
4/02/2012
3/20/2012
3/19/2012
3/09/2012
3/06/2012
3/05/2012
Americans in Florence
If you're in Florence, Italy, be sure to check out this exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi:
They commissioned a 60-ish page comic book to go along with the exhibition, which I just finished drawing. It tells a fictionalized version of the story of the Duveneck Boys, with Glenn Ganges as one of the crew. My understanding is that the book will be published in Italian, but there will be an app in English. As soon as I have more info I'll post that in comments.
3/03/2012
3/01/2012
2/20/2012
2/16/2012
1/29/2012
Sentence Diagrams @ WTD
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There's some pretty clumsy cartooning and weird design in this, but it was drawn quickly as filler for OE5 and I didn't want to fuss with it too much, I wanted to move on to the next issue...which didn't happen. But I always liked the idea, and I'd love to do more.
1/15/2012
2011:
Ganges #4
The Body of Work
Leon Beyond strips (22)
with Dan Z:
Brain Dump
Factual Healing
anthologies:
Nobrow #6
Kramers #8
out in 2012:
Gloriana
1/14/2012
bullseye bristol
Dan Zettwoch's new graphic novel, Birdseye Bristoe, is a masterpiece, and is previewed over at Drawn and Quarterly's blog. (link)
1/12/2012
The Half Men
It came from Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #8 (1956) and is named "The Half Men."* The GCD credits list only a penciler (Bill Molno) and an inker (Sal Trapani). I would imagine that someone out there has an idea who might have written it. I didn't look as deeply into that mystery as maybe I should have. Please let me know if you have some idea who might have written it.
Sometimes when an cartoonist redraws an old story it's called a "COVER," as in the blog and obviously as in bands covering songs. It's perfect for the blog -- for redrawing covers -- but I don't really like that term for stories, which are, you know, not covers. "I covered a story." "Huh?" I hope that doesn't catch on. I like calling it a "REDRAW," as in, "I redrew this story." But I don't know, maybe there's a better term. I enjoyed doing it, and I hope to do more in the future.
*in the Kramers contents the story is named "Mysteries of Unexplained Worlds" which I wish I could say was on purpose.
1/09/2012
1/04/2012
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