Return from SPACE

As you may or may not know, SPACE (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo) was last weekend and me and a bunch of my friends made the trip to Ohio to exhibit. I had a really great time and met a ton of awesome people and bought a ton of awesome comics!

It was a ton of fun hanging out with my table mates Austin Hendry and Grace Cichy while struggling to find the pool and repeatedly bumping into Guy Davis (who was extremely friendly and supportive of our little table. If you somehow don't know who he is check him out!). I want to thank my girlfriend, Brenda Shea, for coming with us, making us laugh, taking pictures and helping me with behind the table duties. Also, for providing foodstuffs to our table when we all started to zombify! And I definitely want to give a shout out to my teacher/friend/table neighbor Ryan Claytor. Its always fun hanging out with him and he did a really good job of helping and promoting his former students (as he always does). Speaking of his former students, it was good to see Ryan from Double Clicked Comics, as well as Amber Scharf, Beth Sparks, Diana Busby, and Leslie Anderson.

So there you have it, SPACE was rad and I would love to attend it again next year. It also inspired me to get back into Nimbus and I have already started inking. I will be inking this book twice (sort-of). You see, because the finished Nimbus I-III will be around 100 pages, I may some day have the desire to color it and put it all together. But my typical inking style isn't very receptive to digital coloring. So I will go through the comic in a less ink heavy style and scan it for possible future coloration and then I will go back and make it look extra beautiful in black and white!

Until next week!

-Matt

Late Post!

Photo Credit: Brenda Shea

Okay, sorry again for the late post folks, but its a busy week!

Last weekend was crunch time for me on the inking of my MERX mini comic, and it is officially done! As you can see from the picture, I started running out of time and I had to employ my girlfriend's cat to finish the inking. That is guest artist, Pitter Patterson. Unfortunately I can't give her credit in the book because all of her lines didn't end up being inside the panel borders.

Tonight I will be drawing the cover art for the mini comic and hopefully getting them printed and ready for SPACE this weekend. Once again my new MERX mini comic will be ZERO dollars at SPACE. All you need to do is show up and find me!

I hope to see you there!

-Matt

Sorry!

Sorry for the late post everyone! I knew this would happen! The semester is wrapping up and I'm getting wrapped up in unreasonable amounts of work. I will try to create a proper blog update tomorrow (technically later today, I suppose)!

-Matt

MERX Mini Comic

Heyy,

Well this week I received my copies of the new Red Cedar Review with my artwork on the cover and my comic "Chewski Goes Fishin" inside. Its pretty awesome to see my artwork printed on a paperback.

Also, a piece of my graphic design work is currently up in the Kresge Art Museum's undergrad exhibit and it received an award! Now, before you say "graphic design is boring, I don't want to see that!" I have to tell you, it does include dinosaurs and a small amount of blood.

In more comic related news: I have started inking my still un-named Nathan and the Land of Robots mini comic and I have included the first page of the comic as a little preview. I hope to get this comic done, or mostly done by the end of the week. If only I didn't have so much school work!

Till next week

-Matt

Kids Read Comics!

Great news this Monday! I will have a table at this year's Kids Read Comics Convention! It will be held in Dearborn Michigan on June 12th and 13th. I will post more info at a later date or you can go check out the KRC website for yourself here. I'm really excited for this event because I think comics are a great way to get kids interested in reading and storytelling and I love to create comics that can be enjoyed by kids. (Most comic artists are just giant kids anyways!) I also think this gives me a target release date for Nimbus Part I. So I'm really hoping to have it done by this convention!

In other news, I have already scripted and thumbnailed my new mini-comic about MERX from Nathan and the Land of Robots and I have started penciling. It will be a short, 6 page story that will be roughly half the size of Nathan and the Land of Robots (1/4 sheet of paper).

I will probably have some inked work from that mini-comic to share with you next Monday!

Till then,

-Matt