Some Cool Websites Pertaining to Comics and Graphic Novels

These are some interesting website for those who want to create their own graphic novels or comicbooks.

Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphics

http://www.kubertsworld.com/

I was given a link to this school through someone I know at the current school I go to now. It's not only a trade school, but a private school that specializes in illustration. It looks very promising, considering the art program I'm in at my school. I hope to be write and illustrate graphic novels when I graduate from college. When it comes to art, I recommend having a mentor over taking art courses.

Artist Statement/Author's Commentary on future comicbook

Unlike the previous comicbook that I proposed, an old story that I wrote a long time ago will serve as the dialogue of the comicbook. I want this to be a graphic novel more so than a regular comicbook. I have read graphic novels, animes and classic style comicbooks and I came to the conclusion that classic comicbooks do not do a good job sending a compelling message. Instead, they tend to trivialize it even more. I fine that anime lacks diversity in presenting its characters. They seem to me to be cookie-cutter. I think that a more individualistic approach to creating the characters will be best for this graphic novel, especially when the themes are topics such as libertarianism, culture shift, human rights and collectivism. The story and the graphics will still be science fiction themed. I hope to either eventually add color, or make an adult version of a coloring book. I think if I had more supplies, I'd add color to the graphic novel.

Upcoming Comics and Works of Art

This summer will be more hectic than last because I have a class (core humanities), but I'll still be sketching out new paintings on paper and coming up with storylines for comicbooks. After my digital media project was a disaster, I decided NOT to bite off more than I can chew, especially when it comes to art. I plan on working on three politically and socially conscious paintings just to see if I can do a painting so deep in subject matter, and I'll be working on sketches for my comicbook. The original idea I had would be a post apocalyptic future trying to understand its history. I think that I will still use that concept, except I'll make it shorter and embed it in a story that is already written. I realized that after my last critique that the story is too epic and too complicated for a five series comicbook.

About the digital media project...I think if I had worked on the project right away with the skills I had, I would have gotten an A on the project instead of a B-. What I do like about the digital media class (program) is that I get to learn how to incorporate technology into my own art. I plan on using what I learned from photoshop in my future art projects.