Sporadic Erratic

corygodbey:

 

The Lamp Post Guild.

Our mission is to teach professional illustration to aspiring artists and help them make a living doing what they love.

Every kid drew pictures until someone told them they couldn’t. Millions of people wanted to become artists when they grew up, but they were told that being an artist is not a “real job.” Only a few of them will actually make it as professional artists. It doesn’t have to end this way.  We want to make this story end differently for these aspiring illustrators and artists by teaching online courses that will help them improve their craft and earn a living doing what they love.

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I’m a part of a really cool educational Kickstarter! Check it out if for no better reason than they made me do most of the talking for the video.

“How do I communicate this…” is a thought I have often enough so why on earth make me a spokesman? I don’t know but they did and it worked pretty ok!

dresdencodak:

emmyc:

nedroidcomics:

emmyc:

dresdencodak:

Our B9 Kingdom Kickstarter has reached over $65,000 with 1,096 backers, and we’ve still got two weeks to go! You guys are the best!

I thought I’d do a followup since we’re at the halfway mark. For those who don’t know, Benign Kingdom is a collection of exclusive art books self-published by some the top talent in comics. This seasons there are four books (from me, Danielle Corsetto, Emmy Ciceriga and Anthony Clark) collecting each of the best our respective portfolios. Contributing to our Kickstarter can get you both digital and physical copies of our books, as well as some other great items like prints.

If you’re wondering what’s in my book, it includes some of my redesigns, lots brand new art and many of my “single image” stories like this: 

A modest contribution can get you one of these books or all of them, you should check it out if you haven’t already!

WOWSERS AARON I’m even more excited to get your book now hahah

Mine has stuff like this in it

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benignkingdom/benign-kingdom-fall-2012

Again, thanks to EVERYONE who has even taken the time to look at our kickstarter, let alone pledge to it. You guys!!! Da best

And here’s a little taste of mine!

GUYS the kickstarter is currently at 84k!! If we hit 90, we throw TOTE BAGS into the mix!! 7 DAYS LEFT

I just can’t get over how amazing everyone has been. We can get it to $90,000, I just know it! Those tote bags would be so great to have, you guys.

As promised, backers will get to see me do the Carlton Dance, as well as a special dance from my dog, Special Agent Dale Cooper. WHAT WILL YOU SEE IF WE HIT $90k, or even $100k???

evandahm:

grocbrostar:

And here we go! Benign Kingdom Fall 2012! We are go!

Emmy C. 

Anthony Clark

Danielle Corsetto

Aaron Diaz

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benignkingdom/benign-kingdom-fall-2012

The Kingdom Groweth

I loved the first artbook. This one looks equally fantastic.

(via swegener)

The Garlicks, by Lea Hernandez

This comic project looks super cute, and the art looks absolutely fantastic! It only has 62 hours to go and is only about 1/3 of the way to its goal. If you love comics, please take a look!

Lea Hernandez has worked in comics for over 20 years and has had a hand in books published by Marvel, DC, Oni, Image, NBM, and Impact. Her original works include Killer Princesses (co-created with Gail Simone!!), the webcomic Aterlier Divalea, Clockwork Angels, and Rumble Girls.

rosalarian:

drew-green:

drew-green:

Hey folks!

For about 6 months or so now, I’ve been troubled over the name of my webcomic.  I recognized that the comic - in theme and in spirit - would change and evolve, and that ultimately, the current name of “The Super-Gay Adventures of Ross Boston” was going to end up being the joke that no longer made sense.  It’s title may one day hinder it, preventing it from being taken seriously.  Furthermore, it works against the idea of using a largely LGBT-friendly cast without “making a huge deal of it” and then…well, making a huge deal of it in the title.  It just doesn’t make sense.

That is why, effective at the start of Episode 2 of the comic, the name will be changed simply to “Ross Boston” and will be at rossbostoncomic.com.  The current supergayadventures.com will redirect to the new URL, so you shouldn’t have to change your bookmarks or anything, but you can if you like.  If you do, wait for the new URL to be live.  Currently, it is still the old one.  (Side note:  the facebook page will keep the name due to facebook’s rules, but the url is facebook.com/rossboston so this really isn’t a big deal to me.)

The new silver and gold logo is the default, but I have also created a black-and-white version for use on many other materials for when the default doesn’t make sense.  See below:

I went through literally dozens of ideas before I finally settled on the obvious.  At its core, “Ross Boston” is a super hero comic, and most of those take on the name of their hero.  Batman.  Spider-Man.  Wonder Woman.  Thor.  Etc.  It seemed fitting to continue to put the hero’s catchy name in the title, while shedding all of the unimportant and obvious information.

The first episode of “Ross Boston” ends this week, and it is highly likely I’ll be taking next week off of posting to further prepare Episode 2 to begin the following week, including a small handful of website changes - though nothing major beyond the new URL..

As a final and VERY IMPORTANT note, My indiegogo campaign (similar to Kickstarter) for the second episode of “Ross Boston” is almost over with only 3 days left, and I’m still VERY BELOW my proposed goal of $5,000.  If you could please take a look and at least share the link with others on twitter, facebook, etc, that would be most appreciated.  THANK YOU!!!

~Drew

Reblogging this for the sake of a signal boost.  Also, 3 DAYS LEFT OF MY CAMPAIGN!

If you like Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space, you’ll probably like Ross Boston!

This comic is awesome! Check it out…and fund ep 2!

rachellovescomics:

erikamoen:

Dylan Meconis, my best friend of over a decade, has just launched her first Kickstarter campaign to fund not one, not two, but THREE books of hers! She is a wonderful, hardworking artist with years of experience self-publishing, so this girl knows how to get shit done and make it look amazing. But she needs some up-front cash to make this all happen! 

This money goes towards:

-Re-printing Bite Me! (And if the KS cracks $17890, we’ll get a BRAND NEW 11 page story about Audric!)

-Printing her Eisner Award-nominated short story, Outfoxed, for the first time!

-Printing a mini art book of her Danse Macabre 2.0 illustrations

And even if you can’t back this project yourself, at least watch her video— it is delightful and entertaining and I refuse to believe you have a human heart if you don’t laugh at least once.

I had the great pleasure of both meeting Dylan Meconis at APE a few years ago and purchasing a couple of her books. I can say without a doubt that her work is fantastic, and you will not be disappointed if you fund her kickstarter.

I have already read and LOVED Bite Me!, as well as another book not included in the kickstarter titled Family Man.

Support awesome comics!

neil-gaiman:

My favourite Kickstarter video. Quite possibly of all time.  It’s from the genius mind of Neal Stephenson.

Years ago we divided the world. He was Neal #1. I was Neil #1. it was all easy. Then one day we had our photo taken with Neil Armstrong, who is the real deal Neil #1, and can be Neal #1 as well if he wants to be. It was very humbling for both of us.

Watch his video now.

This video is awesome. If the amount of cleverness that went into making it also goes into making their game, I’m so in.

This comic looks to be well written, gorgeously drawn, socially relevant, and simply fantastical. If you love comics, please take the time to check it out….annbd maybe even donate to the kickstarter so that it becomes a reality!