Awesome 'Possum!

Angela finally did it. We have launched a Kickstarter for a natural science themed comic anthology called Awesome 'Possum. You should go check it out. I hear it is going to be awesome.

Science items!

Wowee. Took long enough, but we finally have new items up for sale in the Etsy store. We will be adding more until finally everything is up! We might even add some original artwork. Should be some good stuff.

First up is the comic Angela made after learning all about the horseshoe crab in her Zoological Illustration class fall quarter. She made this comic over winter break because she was exploding with interesting information about this creepy little animal.

Then the poster that spawned the research that led to the comic. This poster was an assignment in her class first quarter, but the only rules were that it had to be about the crab. Which meant doing her own research. It was hard to pick a topic with so much information about these weird guys.

Last but certainly not least, the tapir poster! You have probably heard about Angela's fascination with tapirs over the last year or so. This is why. She knew she would have to pick a topic for her Vertebrate Illustration class. And tapirs are adorable.

So go grab your favorite posters and comics now. We also have lowered the price on the 2011 comics collection from $20 to $15 so grab it before they are all gone.

Upcoming appearances

Good news!
Angela will be at Exterminator City in Greenwood, Seattle, WA on April 5, Saturday. It is a small underground comics market and the more people come the better! It should be good.

Then on June 7, Saturday, Abe and Angela will be at the always awesome Olympia Comics Festival.

These two appearances nicely bookend Angela's last quarter of the Natural Science Illustration program. So there will be a good chance of new natural science themed comics and prints.

Blast it!

Well, I have put it everywhere else, so I am adding it here too. Angela now has a Society 6 shop where you can currently buy art prints and pillows and totes! Amazing, right?

That chimera is the one available on shirts, totes, pillows, and even a shower curtain. Weird stuff, right?

ALSO!!
Abe has some of his beautiful photography up for sale on SmugMug! And if you haven't been keeping up with his Shot of the day project for 2014, you should be. Great stuff going on there.

If you aren't a fan on our Facebook page, go for it. When we hit 50 people, one lucky dog (or human I guess) will get their own portrait dodo avatar. Like the ones smothering this page.

OK. I will leave you to now browse through all the awesomeness in those links.

Cartooning Studio comic preview

Well, there's still just over a week to preorder the Cartooning Studio 2013 comics. Remember $5 plus $1 shipping. So you can send $6 to schwarzgerat [at] gmail [dot] com. I originally said the books would go up to $6 in September, but now I am thinking maybe $7 because I am going to do a nicer bind job. I am really excited for it. We'll see what I think after binding them all. They will look cool anyways.

And for your viewing pleasure, here is a preview PDF of the comic. We were handing these out at the Portland Zine Symposium. Enjoy! Share the preview with your friends!

Cartooning Studio comic pre-orders

You might remember that Angela went to Vermont for the Cartooning Studio workshop at the Center for Cartoon Studies a few weeks ago. Well, she was so inspired, she decided to make up a bunch of autobio comics (twenty-three of them) and combine those with the comics she made during the week. So we are going to have it available in the first week of September for $6 plus shipping.

But you can order it now for $5 plus $2 shipping. Just send $7 to schwarzgerat [at] gmail [dot] com on PayPal. If you would rather another method of payment, email angela [at] flyingdodopublications [dot] com and we can try to work something out.

This is a 56 page comic with the autobio comics, Skate Board Champ, The Short Furry Life of Reggie Bishop, the original text that the Reggie story was based on, and a single page comic based on the free-writing class at the workshop.

Here are some photos of Angela at the workshop. Izzy Rotman is responsible for this proof because Angela forgot to take any pictures.

Here is Alec Longstreth speaking in one of his lectures, just to give you an idea how intense the week was. Look at him go! Check out his comics. Phase 7 is amazing.

I'm using a micron pen there, so I am probably inking the letters. I used a brush pen (actually two since my first one ran out) to ink the art, as well as a regular brush dipped in ink for the dry brush. Hard to get good dry brush with a cartridge brush pen.

Luke Healy is helping me make my InDesign Doc.

Running through my pages while Jon Chad looks through the printed covers that we are getting ready to screen print.

All done! And two comics to show for it. Not bad

Real Change illustrations

Real Change is a newspaper in Seattle with the goal of giving a voice to the homeless. The mostly work with volunteers to create the newspaper. Angela has started volunteering as an illustrator for book reviews. Her first illustration is posted for a review of Harvest. If you are wandering around Seattle, chances are you will see someone selling Real Change. So grab a copy for $2 and you might get some art by Angela!

Caricature Workshop with John McColloch

Announcement! Because this is awesome and I will be there and our wonderful partner in crime (really in publishing and other art endeavours), Egress Studio, is hosting this.

Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Time: 1:00 – 4:00
Where: Egress Studio, Bellingham, WA
To register, please send $50 to "Egress Studio," 5581 Noon Road, Bellingham WA 98226.

Learn from John McColloch how to create caricatures and be the life of any party! Caricatures are a grand old tradition of satirical portrait that simplify and exaggerate the subject’s features. Caricatures can be an insult or a compliment to serve a political purpose or solely for entertainment. John will demonstratem how to draw interesting caricatures outside the bounds of the modern street-style of big head/little body. 

In the workshop, John will teach you how to draw caricatures. You will learn what types of tools to use. Caricatures are often done out and about so you will often need tools that travel well. He will also show you how to engage the person you are drawing and get them involved. Engaging the person will help you to draw a more personal caricature. One very important lesson is how to draw someone without getting punched in the face afterwards. Finally, it is always important to know what to do when something inevitably goes wrong. 

John is an illustrator with over 30 years experience in both traditional and digital media. He staffed a caricaturist booth for several years with a comic-book group in Denver, Co. They created what they referred to as "comic-a-tures”: caricatures in the form of a comic strip. John is a published cartoonist and comic book artist. Over the years, he has been a production artist for a major metro newspaper, The Rock Mountain News; a graphics Illustrator for the U.S. Air Force; an interactive media developer for online education; a multimedia artist at Talking Dog Media, where it was encouraged to bring your dog to work; and an artist for a gaming company that specialized in localizing games for foreign and local markets. He currently runs his own business, Johnny Mac Studios, where his clients include Starbucks, Microsoft, Getty Images, and Precor.