Bryan and I collaborated on this very funny comix zine Blueberry Boy of Asbury Park. It is debuting on this Saturday at the Asbury Park Comic Con! Pick it up. Bryan and I will both be there with our comics and art. Here is some pages of our zine:
Bryan makes comics about martial arts. Here are some examples of his work:
-XOXO Dre
I plan on printing a long lost comic I drew in 2009. I hope to print DIY it soon. Here is an illustration from it I recently colored. The book will have around 60 pages! Also, I took some detail shots.
-XOXO Dre
I just finished this illustration from the non profit project Comix Gone Rogue. It is a cover of a Youngblood cover (actually the comic that inspired me is called Awesome Youngblood #1). It is a portrait of the character Suprema. Here it is…
I took some snapshots to document the of the progress of my work. I think would be good idea share them, so people can gain insight on the way a I work. I wish I took a couple more photos, like one of just the pencil work, but here is what I have.
Here is a photo of the pencil work being inked.
This is what the project looked like after it was inked and he pencil lines have been erased.
This is what the cover looked like when it was almost near complete. I did make some changes since this point. In my rendition, Suprema reminds me of Xena:Warrior Princess.
There. Those were the photos I wanted to show you about the process of my cover piece for Comix Gone Rogue. More blog posts soon.
-XOXO Dre
I’m doing the bloggy thing to do, which is to write a year review. Here is my year in comics in 2012!
Dee’s Dream: The Cosmic Wombat House
Dee’s Dream: The Patriot Parlor
In 2012 started coming out with zines my series Dee’s Dream. Dee’s Dream: The Cosmic Wombat House debuted at MoCCA Fest in April. The second issue Dee’s Dream: The Patriot Parlor debuted at SPX in September. Dee’s Dream is about poetic bohemian Dee Fynch and her underdog garage band, which is also called Dee’s Dream. Both zines are over 16 pages.
House of Frame
My comics were in woman’s anthology Dirty Diamonds 2 and 3, The Work Issue and Travel Issue. For the work issue, which came out in April, I did a four page comic called House of Frame. The comic is about a young woman working in frame shop, who encounters a very difficult customer, who happens to be another young woman.
Lupa Cachula’s Life: The Hurricane
In comic I have in the Dirty Diamonds: Travel Issue, which was launched in December, I had another four page story called Lupa Cachula’s Life: The Hurricane. I came up with a new character Lupa Cachula who is a weird witchy outsider. Read it here. I’ll probably make more comics about her in the future.
From Suspect Device #2
In April, when Josh Bayer’s Suspect Device #2 came out, I had a one page comic in there. My strip is about issues with self image.
When one of the organizers of the Philly Feminist Zine Fest asked me to create the flyer for the event, I could not be happier! Also, I illustrated the cover image for the zine Dangerous Damsels which is an anthology about feminists fairy tales, and it is edited by zinester and festival organizer Sarah Rose.
Flyer by Bryan G. Brown and me.
My fellow cartoonist friend Bryan G Brown and I collaborated on a illustration for a flyer for the Asbury Park Comic Con 2. We tabled together at the show, and had a wonderful time.
Part of my illustration of Lois Lane.
I illustrated and covered a vintage comic cover for a non profit project called Comix Gone Rogue.
BUST Blog
I ended up writing some articles that recieved major attention on the BUST Magazine Blog, and had an article in the very popular comics blog The Beat. I wrote about different comics shows and events such as: The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, The Asbury Park Comic Con, Locust Moon Comic Con, and The US launch party for Strumpet Issue #2, an international anthology featuring women creators.
My Zine Crush
At the very end of 2012 I created a two page comic for Zine Crush #2.
Happy New Year! 2013 should be a great year! 13 is a actually a very lucky number! I hope I’ll make way more comics and do more of those things that I love to do.
This Saturday is the fourth annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. The event is free to the public, and promotes alternative comics artists and publications. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about comics, and pick up some radical zines and prints, directly from the artists or publishers themselves. I have been to the Fest twice and both times were filled really amazing experiences. Continue reading
I went back to Philly for the tenth annual Philly Zine Fest at the Rotunda. It is hard to imagine that the Zine Fest is that old, but it is. I remember visiting the Zine Fest while I was in college and thinking that it was cool, and something I really wanted to do. After college I began working a lot. Since the Zine Fest is almost always in October, I couldn’t make it because it is a super busy time in my work life. Fortunately for me the 2011 Philly Zine Fest last year was in November and I got a table. There I met one of the organizers, Sarah Rose, whom I had the great pleasure of spending a lot of time with in 2012.
Somehow, I forgot to sign up this year although I remembered to take off from work well in advance. Luckily I managed to get a table once I got there. My table was smooshed up against a bunch of loudspeakers on the stage. People asked me if I minded being right next to the speakers, but I actually liked it. It wasn’t mind-bogglingly loud and I was grooving to the tunes the DJ was playing. I could actually hear the music. If my memory serves correctly, he played a less upbeat selection of music that including The Smiths, M83, Robyn, and Aphex Twin. Plus, the position of my table on stage made me feel like I was a teacher about to give an important lecture, which I liked. Here is my picture at my table.
It truly was a great spot, because I was near by some of my homies like Dan Strauss, Kelly Phillips, and Cyn Why. Therewas lot of people I knew tabling at the Zine Fest including Sarah Rose, Bangarang Photography, 3:00 Comics, Awakening comics, Bianca Alu-Marr, Andria Alefhi, Annie Monk, and the Soapbox collective to name a few.
My friend Edwin puts together a project called Comix Gone Rogue. In this project artists are asked to recreate or invent a cover that is a tribute to certain heroes of comics. The artwork is donated by the artist and the profits benefit the Hero Initiative an organization that helps out comics book artists in need. The first round of the project artist was a tribute to Marvel Comics. In the second part of the project focused on DC Comics. Luckily, I was a part if it this time. I redrew a cover of Action Comics from the 90s with Lois Lane’s bewildered face as she sees the alter ego of her homeboy Clark Kent.
“Action Comics” No. 662. January 1991. This is the cover I was inspired by.
Image via blog.newsok.com
I answered questions for the Philly Feminist Zine Fest’s website. I’m gearing up for the fest, which is tomorrow Sunday August 26th 2012. Also as part of a festival, tonight there is a a zine reading at the Wooden Shoe at 704 South Street. I’ll be reading and presenting a Powerpoint presentation with my comics. Come check this out, it starts at 7pm.
Great news! My friend the cartoonist Bryan G. Brown and I are tabling together at the Asbury Park Comic Con. We worked on the flyer together as a jam piece showing a combination of our two different drawing styles. We are looking forward to the comics event by the sea, happening September 29th 2012!
Brooklyn Zine Fest 2012 interviews me. Read all about what I had to say here.