Bramble Vine Comics

Well, I'm back from Christmas vacation and back at my desk job too. It's pretty dead where I work today since most people are still on vacation. To keep me company I brought my banana to life and sat him in front of me. It'll do until lunch.

Now that the holidays are just about over it's time to buckle down at the old drawing board. I have plans for this year to get more books finished and into print and more comic book conventions to attend to try and sell my work. I'm currently planning the upcoming con season to see where I should go. I already have a table at the Dallas Comic Con on Jan 12 and 13, so if you're in the area come by and say hello. The guys putting out the Synesthetic Anthology will also be there, hopefully with an early version of the book to show off.

I've also secured a table at STAPLE, an independent comics show in Austin, TX, on March 1st. This show is a lot like SPX in the type of comics that will be on display, so I'm hopeful that I will do well there too.

I'm still looking at other shows as possible targets. Wizard World Dallas is a likely one and I want to return to SPX in the Fall. I'll just see how things go and post my plans here.

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I'm working hard on my latest project, but efforts are slower than they would be if it weren't Christmas coming up. I'm heading off on vacation shortly and thinking about that is more than a little distracting.

Anywho, here's a page I just finished inking still sitting on my drawing board. The story has to do with virtual reality and online worlds. I love the topic, but there are several issues I need to overcome. First and foremost I want to avoid having it be perceived as a "gamer comic". Video games are a well tread topic in comics on the web, so I want this to avoid any conventions from that genre. Secondly, it's a complex concept to have to get across in a comic book. I need to be careful in my writing to not fly beyond the reader by using overly nerdy terms. It's a fun challenge so far. I'll post the finished pages once I have the first story complete.

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Well, it looks like everything has fallen into place on the new site design. I've been meaning to get around to putting some real design work into the site for a while now. I've seen the "desktop" type of design on other artists sites and wanted to give it a shot myself. Everything here are photos of my actual tools and workspace. I spent some time taking digital photos of my various pens and paper and stuff and turned them into image elements. The background is a photo of the actual board I draw on, so it's all pretty true to the feel of the actual environment I make my cartoons in. There are still a few more places I'll be adding some more images here and there, but it seems more like "home" now than the other Blogger template design I had going on.

Also, here's another page from my sketchbook. A bunch of character doodles I love to do so much.

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I'm working on a whole new look for my web site. Be on the lookout for weird mistakes, because I'm updating the site as I go along. I'll make another post once I'm complete, but if you see any issues I may have overlooked feel free to let me know.

Labels: book, cartoon, cartoonist, comic, sketch, sketchbook