Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector (Seattle: Fantagraphics, March 23, 2021; 216 pages; $29.99; ISBN 9781683964049 hardback). “To be, or not to be: that is the question….” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act III, Scene I) Artist…
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Part 4: Creating a Comic Character
By Karl Dixon Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 In this tutorial, the fourth in my series of creating a comic character, I will be talking about how I script a comic page. I will not address how to make it funny, poignant, dark, sinister, light-hearted or any other emotions of the modern comic book or…
Part 3: Creating a Comic Character
By Karl Dixon Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4 First I’d like to apologize for the change in plans that I’d promised in last week’s post; the Photoshop tutorial is a much larger project than I first imagined. Detailing the specifics of coloring a cartoon in Photoshop is more complicated than I’d realized, to address in a single…
Part 2: Creating a Comic Character
By Karl Dixon Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 My first post dealt with my comic character Captain Alzheimer from a rough sketch to fully fleshed-out character. For this post, I’ll be drawing Captain Alzheimer in a variety of poses. I do this purely to see how versatile he can be, how he looks from different angles and performs with different…
Part 1: Creating a Comic Character from Scratch
By Karl Dixon Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 Cartooning is by no means an exact science, but very much hit or miss; I can never tell if I’ve invented another Snoopy, or a Titanic that will sink ingloriously without trace. The only constant in this inconsistent world of mine, is that I keep…
Art of Comics: Drawing a Cartoon Page
By Karl Dixon Karl Dixon has been drawing cartoons professionally for over 15 years. He has worked for Dandy, the world’s longest running comic, and is the co-creator of Dandy’s leading comic character Ollie Fliptrik. Dixon is the author of two cartoon book collections, in addition to the three graphic novels series, Brabbles and…