Bramble Vine Comics

Here's a photo of some of my pages out of the Synesthetic Anthology comic book. A few months ago I heard through a sketch group I'm a part of that some cartoonists were putting together a comics anthology of work by writers and artists in the Texas area and that they were looking for submissions. I sent in some work and got added to the project. I worked on my short story, Normal, and turned it in by the deadline. Last week the editors of the book, Jake and Luan, headed to Wizard World Chicago to start shopping the book around to potential publishers.

Today they held a meeting with a bunch of the cartoonists involved to show us the proof copy of the book they made in order to shop it around. After all the meetings and all the work we've done on this project it was really cool to actually see it put together. The colors that Luu added to my work turned out great. It's just so great to actually be able to flip through the whole thing.

Jake and Luu got some great feedback and a few good leads in Chicago. Their next stop is a comic convention in Baltimore next month to keep trying to find a publisher. Personally, I don't see how anyone could turn this down. The whole thing looks amazing!

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More pencil scribbling from my sketchbook. I'm trying out a some new character designs here. I need to get these into a comic and see what happens.

Jake and Luann are back from the Chicago Comic Con where they were shopping around the Synesthetic Anthology. They called a meeting with all the cartoonists involved in the book for this weekend where I'll get to see the finished book and hear about how things went with all the pitches they made. I hope things went well.

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Here's another little monster doodle that ended up in my sketchbook. Just one more page out of my sketchbook.

So, I've updated my comics gallery with a lot more comics. All the work I'm getting printed for the Small Press Expo is online now. I have one book printed and ready to go and three more at the printers. I'm currently trying to get some promotional material designed. I have ordered a few postcard designs and printed out some flyers. Once I have everything together I'll take a photo and post it up here. I'm actually starting to fell ready for this convention.

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I've been drawing a lot of monsters lately for some reason. Not sure why. This furry guy in particular has been popping up on my notepads at work. I may need to write him into something. Anyway, here's a new page out of my sketchbook that I was working on in the coffee shop from my last post.

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Here I am sketching out some cartoon ideas while sitting in a coffee shop. I actually get a lot done while hanging out in places like this. Not sure what it is, but having other people around in a relaxed atmosphere makes me productive. I've tried to sit alone in my house to work, but it drives me nuts doing this without anyone around for some reason. Only if my family is there too can I get anything done there. On the couch with my wife, in front of the TV, with an art board in my lap is probably my ideal cartooning position.

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Since I have a full time day job as a programmer my time for cartooning is very limited. I get most of my work done in the evenings, but I also squeeze in some work during my lunch hour.

Here you can see my setup as I get some work done on a mini comic I'm working on while in my company's cafeteria. I carry around a virtual cartooning studio in my bag everywhere so I can set up and be productive at a moment's notice.

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