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These photographs were shot during our first substantial shoot at the 2010 Comic-Con International. Our production team interviewed a range of established and emerging comic creators and fans alike as we gathered footage for the project’s narrative. We also selected potential characters to follow for the evolving non-fiction narrative. These select images are a few Read More …
During the 2010 Alternative Press Expo (APE), award-winning comic creator Daniel Clowes was generous enough to sit for an on-camera interview to discuss his prolific and influential body of work in comics. Clowes discussed the modus operandi of his creative process and his personal growth as an artist working in both graphic novels, as well Read More …
The filmmakers of Comics Are Everywhere “are at Comic-Con 2011, exploring a theme that dwarfs the concerns of most blockbusters: Why do artists create?…” Click to View Front Page of Cover Story in The San Diego Union-Tribune’s July 24, 2011 Edition Click Here to View the Second Page of Cover Story in The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Read More …
Writer, Director, & Producer Neil Kendricks is a San Diego-based filmmaker, artist, photographer, educator, writer, and the Film Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD). Kendricks earned a Master’s Television, Film and New Media from San Diego State University in 2006. He has written extensively about comics since the early 1990s, and Read More …
Producer Natalia Quintana is a producer based in New York City. She’s a member of the Producer’s Guild of America and has produced for shows like truTV’s number one hit show, Hardcore Pawn, TLC’s What Not to Wear and Say Yes to the Dress, among others. As a member of the International Cinematographer’s Guild, Natalia Read More …
Dakota Brinkert is a talented freelance photographer, graphic designer, and web designer currently living in San Diego, CA. He was responsible for building, organizing, and setting up our website. If you would like more information about Dakota, his work, or if you are interested in working with him you can you can contact him through Read More …
Salon.com looks at the new books on Daniel Clowes (“Ghost World”), African-American cartoonist George Herriman (“Krazy Kat”), and underground comix artist Rory Hayes on bookshelves at a bookstore near you! Not very long ago, a dedicated comics library might have looked less like a rare books room and more like a semi-coherent junk store, containing Read More …
Wired magazine offers a short, behind-the-scenes look at Occupy Comics and the ongoing fight for creators’ rights in today’s marketplace. The mainstream comics industry has spawned another alternative supergroup. 30 Days of Night creator Steve Niles and Epitaph Records owner and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz have banded together with Halo-8′s Matt Pizzolo to form Black Mask Read More …
The LA times looks at comic creator and journalist Joe Sacco’s new book “Journalism.” Read the full article here. By David Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic June 17, 2012 In the preface to his new book “Journalism,” Joe Sacco pinpoints the challenges of the comics artist who seeks to be a reporter: “Aren’t drawings by their very Read More …
Conan the Barbarian gets an unlikely makeover courtesy of JJ Villard. F**k the power of steel. Pens and paper in the hands of a skilled artist can shape hearts and minds, and sometimes warp them forever. Exhibit “A” in the rogue’s gallery of crazed, comic-inspired imagery straight from Planet Villard! Check out the larger image here.
JJ Villard graduated from California Institute of the Arts (also known as CalArts) with a degree in Character Animation. Over a three-year period, the artist was the winner of top prizes for international collegiate animation at North America’s most prestigious animation festival in Ottawa, Canada. Close to his graduation from CalArts, Villard’s unique film Read More …
Born in Shanghai, China in 1983, Danni Shinya Luo moved to California in 1995. She fell in love with art in grade school and she continues to pursue her passion for creativity. After a few years of private study (and an apprenticeship with Chinese watercolor master, Ding Ha), Shinya was accepted into Art Center College Read More …
Born in 1959, Jaime Hernandez enjoyed a pleasant childhood in Oxnard, California, with four brothers and one sister. Their mother had been an avid comic book fan as a girl, and she passed onto them a love of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko’s Marvel comics, Hank Ketcham’s (and Owen Fitzgerald’s) Dennis the Menace, and the Read More …
Daniel Clowes was born in Chicago, Ilinois on April 14, 1961. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY from which he graduated with a BFA degree in 1984. He began his career as an “alternative” or “underground” cartoonist in 1985 with the short-lived comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn, a feature loosely based around the Read More …
