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APE 2009: Jeremy Tinder

doc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:15:54 +0000

Jeremy Tinder @ APE 2009 from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.

Here is an interview I did with Bay Area artist Jeremy Tinder at the 2009 Alternative Press Expo.

APE 2009: Jason Shiga

doc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:02:59 +0000

Jason Shiga @ APE 2009 from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.

Here is an interview I did with Bay Area artist Jason Shiga at the 2009 Alternative Press Expo.

Ideas

doc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:21:14 +0000

Ideas is my first 24 hour comic that I felt was good enough to print. It documents both my move to San Francisco and several events that took place at Comic Relief in Berkeley throughout the day.

Pictureless Comics part 2

doc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:02:38 +0000

We’ve reached the deadline for the pictureless comics challenge. Now it’s all up to the judges, but I thought it would be cool to post all the entrants (in order of their submission):

by Lupi (original link here)

by Nico (no original link)

by J David Eisenberg (original link here)

by Tobie Abad (original link here)

by Scott Stead (original link here and here)

by Ellen Forney (original link here)

by J David Eisenberg (original link here)

by Roy Blumenthal (original link here)

by Bojan Mijojevic (original link here)

by Doc Pop (original link here)

by George Webber (original link here)

by JP (no link given)

by J Foote (original link here)

by Brian K (original link here)

by Mare Odomo (original link here here here and here)

by David (original link here)

KickStarter for publishing and things

doc — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:25:04 +0000

Instead of searching for a publisher, Jamie Tanner decided to ask his fans for backing on his newest graphic novel. Using a service called KickStarter, Jamie has posted his project details and the amount he wishes to raise. Supporters can then offer him money to qualify for various gifts such as owning one of the books finished pages or appearing as a character in the comic.
If for some reason I was to ever lose my job, I would seriously consider using KickStarter to help fund a graphic novel or clothing line.

The Flea Family Circus

doc — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:56:03 +0000

This is my entry into the pictureless comic challenge. It’s probably the darkest comic I’ve ever drawn. If you prefer, you can read it with all the panels laid out on a single page on Flickr.

update: I can’t get the gallery to load thumbnails, so I just posted the whole flickr file above.

Super Top fan art by Danno!

doc — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:06:57 +0000

“Next Time” is Danno’s clever take on my Super Top character. I met Danno back in my Minneapolis days. I believe he’s one of the founding members of the Cartoonist Conspiracy, which he is still highly active in.

He drew this back in ‘03 or ‘04 and it’s got a special place in my heart-hole because it’s the first piece of “fan art” I’ve ever received.

Super Top

doc — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:01:42 +0000

Super Top is the first comic I ever published and it is still my only entry into the “super hero” genre. It was originally printed in 2002 on a letter press in Minneapolis. The comic is embedded above, but is also available as a CBZ file, PNGs, or on the flickrhole.

When it was time to pick out which paper to print the comic on, I pointed to a box in the corner full of cardboard sheets asking “What are those?”
“Those are trash. They use them as filler when shipping paper. You can have ‘em.”
Although the sheets were fairly thin, we would crank the press to get the art to leave indentations.

The cover of Super Top is one of my favorites. I bought some boxes of “Hello My Name Is” stickers and we printed the comics cover in them, then applied them to the covers, ran some more art, the trimmed them. The cover of Super Top had 5 colors; brown, red, blue, white, & black!

Fun Fact, there were two alternate covers of this book. The retail cover had a blue sticker with red ink. The convention cover was a red sticker with blue ink.

About 1000 copies of SuperTop #1 were printed and sold. I only have less than ten copies left. In 2004 I write and drew 18 of the 20 pages for SuperTop #2. 5 years later and I still haven’t finished that damn book (which is sitting on my desk right now).

The Magic Yo-Yo (embedded)

doc — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:26:19 +0000

As my “week of comics” continues, I’ve decided to (re-)post Oke Rosgana’s The Magic Yo-Yo. As mentioned previously, this comic was made by Rosgana as part of the 2009 24hr Comic Book Day from his home in Indonesia. I’m posting it today partly because I wanted to add to get it online as an embedded gallery, but mostly because The Magic Yo-Yo was a HUGE inspiration for my 24hr comic BOOF!.

For example: I wanted to make something that would hopefully be as for Rosgana to read as his comic was for me, so I decided to eliminate words so that the language would be more universal.

A Comic A Day also posted this glowing review of Rosgana’s 24hr comic book.

BOOF! in 3-D

doc — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:02:17 +0000

The above anaglyph is a collaboration between the awesome Stan Heller and myself. Of course you’ll need a pair of those blue/red glasses to get the 3D effect.

This piece was created to promote my 24hr book BOOF!, but Stan also created his own 24hr book with us at Mission Comics and it’s in 3-D! You can read it online here.

Stan is the only artist I’ve ever met who specializes in sterographic art, which is why I’m excited about his upcoming show “In 3D”: