@tomfowler.bsky.social does them for fun.

We had one on a t-shirt in an issue of Books of Magic

Actually, i lied. I did print out some from a webcomic i did ages ago, so i could put them in an art show of my work for the Rendezvous-Vous de BD in Gatineau 2o years ago.

Ive printed some from an unpublished comic for portfolio purposes.

I don’t. Kind of figure the printed comic will do.

Maybe I’ll want to have access to view the originals of my wfh that will be lettered and coloured by someone else.

‪Craig Taillefer 🇨🇦🐈‬
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If anyone wants to nominate me for a the #RingoAwards
I would be grateful! ☺️

Why not! I doubt micro-published work like mine will get any traction but it doesn't hurt to put it out there!

More info at www.craigtaillefer.com

If anyone wants to nominate me for a the #RingoAwards
I would be grateful! ☺️

Why not! I doubt micro-published work like mine will get any traction but it doesn't hurt to put it out there!

More info at www.craigtaillefer.com

I started doing that because of an experience inking over one artist who drew all the blacks in, BUT, he had worked with a really soft lead and even the sheet of paper I had under my inking hand was smearing the pencils everywhere so I started spotting the blacks first to reduce the smudging.

/... I had no idea that comic books were periodicals and not "Books" like Asterix, and could never figure out why I couldn't track more than 4 or 5 down.

First Floppy series was Uncanny X-Men with #150 (and 149 bought at the same time).

Asterix. They were being translated and showing up in the local bookstores and I would get them for Christmas and birthdays and started buying them myself. I think I had them all by the time The Great Divide came out when I was in grade 6.

I wanted to collect Turok Son Of Stone, but .../

I sometimes I ink lines painfully slow and the edit box will pop up when I wasn’t going for it. Fortunately undo takes you back to the unedited line I put down instead of erasing it.

I do that too, but this is so much faster.

I freehand curves in pencil, but instead of trying to find the right curve with the French curve, you just freehand the curve in “ink” and hold at the end of the line to make it editable.

It’s a brilliant upgrade for me.

Yup. Space ships and alien cities were a breeze instead of my usual French curves and plastic ruler on the Cintiq .

I upgraded from 2 to 5 just for this tool. I Wouldn’t use it to clean up organic lines-but freehanding a curve or circle and using this tool is so much faster than using the line tool or Elipse tool.

I used it a ton drawing space ships and alien cities on my last job.

I’ll probably still pull out the clear plastic ruler when I want to do something like that.

But last time I did sci-fi I was using the curved line tool and going over it carefully with a brush to get some thick and thin to the line.

And drawing a rough ellipse and being able to edit that!🥳

I rarely bother upgrading, and it was definitely worth it this time.

That one got me to upgrade!

Just jumped from 2-something to to 5 (even though I’ve been paying for the pass) when I saw a demo of that.

Just did a scfi 10 pager and used it a ton for the backgrounds.

Lots of artists are good at both, but many are better at one or the other, and prefer one or the other. I occasionally do pinups, but I’d rather spend the time drawing a story.

Covers are a necessary evil of being a one-man band self-publisher. If I could put the first page as the cover I would!🤣

True. I was just mentioning SSOC because that’s what I think of when I hear the word pin-up.

But there are definitely different skills needed to do good single image illustration vs Sequential’s. I think I’m a good storyteller, but pinups and covers are kind of like pulling teeth for me.

Honestly, that’s why I went looking for WFH a few months ago.

I spend some much time getting into my head about my own work, hemming and hawing. I found myself paralyzed.

Figured someone giving me a script and a deadline and saying “Go!” Might help scrape the barnacles off.

So far it’s working.

I really need to get my ass in gear and put together samples and hit up titan.

Conan is probably my only WFH “want”.

My latest self-pubbed comic started out as “Sian meets Conan” but by the time I scraped off the serial numbers my stand in didn’t really look much like Conan anymore. 🤣

I never get that. The second i figured out people drew these comics and that it was a job, i started writing and drawing my own comics.

The first handful were on writing paper and just stop mid thought as I was making it up as I went along.

By grade 9 I was doing inked 3 and 4 pagers at full size.

I’m guessing you are talking about the endless ‘’character with no background” drawings out there.

I always think of the SSOC pinups when I hear the word, which were usually full illustrations, which like covers are their own discipline.

I prefer drawing story pages.

That’s it.

Can’t remember where I read the quote, but I have many Mandrake reprints and a fondness for Davis’ work.

Davis was very clearly influenced by Raymond but nowhere near in his league (IMO) so it’s hard to believe Raymond would have swiped from him, but you never know.

I’m blanking on the name, but the original mandrake artist claimed Raymond visited his studio and he had a swipe from Raymond of some horses on the boards and Raymond’s response was his was a swipe from mandrake.

Hard to believe, but if it’s true…

I made it myself out of Masonite/hobby panels and made all the cuts with a circular saw and a speed square.

I made one out of cardboard and x-acto blade first to work out the kinks.

I know there is someone who custom makes them for people.

Set up at #ocaf Ottawa comics Art Festival until 3 PM.

Just do as many pages as you can. You don't have to show anyone the bad ones. Keep going. Just make more.

Did you make a lot? Well, make more.

You think you made enough? You did not not. Make more.

Athena Voltaire Summer Special #1 The long-running hit pulp series starring a globetrotting aviatrix returns in this double-size 56-page one-shot!

With my contract with Action Lab finished, I’m excited to get the rights back to Athena Voltaire, the creator-owned series where the majority of my comic work has appeared.

It’s 1930s pulp adventure in the spirit of the Rocketeer, Indiana Jones, and the Mummy.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...

Show don't tell.

First page. I'm trying to do this fast (for me) and put no more than two hours into the inks, and less for the pencils.

So far writing and lettering it has been the slowest part.

Not quite what I had in mind, but changing how you draw isn't easy!

🧵2/ close to 20 yrs, so the narrator wearing them is accurate. But is it confusing if the subject isn't wearing them?

I'm probably overthinking this. I have a handful of these autobio shorts in mind, and I want them to be pretty fast and loose, not my usual overworked stuff.

I'm drawing a short autobio comic, and I'm starting to wonder how close to reality I need to stick.

I've been wearing progressives for about 4 years, and as this story covers 10 yrs, the glasses are on and off, then on, then off.

The narrator is at the cintiq, and i've worn reading glasses for /🧵