Sunday is Epilogue Day

Since Creative Reading class ended, I have been unsure whether I would continue this blog. What good is a blog about your comics class when you're not teaching a comics class? I wrote a few posts about Film Studies but I didn't feel committed to it.

Yesterday, when I finally got around to writing my personal reflection on how Creative Reading class went, I realized that it felt like my last blog post. I thought it over and decided that, yes, this is a good time to go on indefinite hiatus. Consider yesterday's post the sense-shattering conclusion to Comics Class GO!, and this post the epilogue. 

I've been posting a comics page every Sunday, so here's one last entry (at least for now):

That's chapter 1, page 13 of my comic Laser Brigade. You can read it here. Once I resolve some technical issues, I will be updating it regularly. There's robots! Aliens! Spaceships! Fighting! You know, cerebral stuff.

Thanks for reading! If I get to teach this class again, I will resume the blog. If not, we'll always have our memories, and these 118 blog entries.

Sunday is Comics Day: Robots Today

Here's a page from a comic that I wrote and Loving Wife illustrated, called "Robots Today." You can see the whole thing here, if you're interested.

(Go on, check it out--Loving Wife did some great work on this.)

Sunday is Comics Day: The Absolutely Thrilling Adventures of Martino

Here's the first page of a four page comic I drew in 2006. Generally in comics anything more than nine panels on a page looks cluttered. Watchmen, you may recall, is built around a nine-panel grid, and is dense with information. Dark Knight Returns uses a sixteen-panel grid, but back then Frank Miller was young and brilliant enough to pull that off. This comic was an attempt to use a rigid twenty-panel grid. As you will see, you can only fit so much in each panel.   

Sunday is Comics Day: Captain Comma

I drew this as part of an assignment for an education class.