Archive | May 2012
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have wings, will travel
Check out my new business card. It combines the image from Escape From Blanderburg with the recurring sketchbook motif in my work, emphasizing the unpolished nature of my universe. You can get one of these from me at Comicpalooza this weekend. Look for me. I won’t have a table, but I will be there Friday and […]
i think i know this guy
Check it out. Examiner.Com’s Pam Harrison did a profile on me at Examiner.Com. http://www.examiner.com/article/independent-comic-artist-spotlight-shane-patrick-boyle “the Crisis on Infinite Earths had a major impact on me. Not just my comics, but my life. My continuity has been constantly rebooting since the original Crisis.”
cluttered mind
This illustration depicts an artist’s (or writer’s) struggle to process all the clutter in their head and figure out how to put it down on paper. It was originally drawn as a page in a 24 hour comic I did on 24 Hour Comics Day 2005. The comic was printed as shane #5 and the image […]
some important writing advice (link)
Comic Book Writer Paul Tobin, writing for the Night Bazaar blog, recently offered some good advice for male writers writing female characters. Think of them as people. “In writing, once a gender is established… it’s often best to leave it alone. A woman does not need to walk to the door with a decided roll […]
Are Comics Maps?
Reblogged from : Comics scholars often compare comics to maps, and sometimes claim outright that comics are a type of map. There is nothing wrong with this as a useful metaphor – there is clearly some sense of the verb “to map” such that comics map (fictional) three-dimensional spaces onto (real) two-dimensional pages, and a […]
comicpalooza is coming
Comicpalooza, the Texas International Comic Con, is coming to the the George R. Brown Convention Center May 25-27. This is the fifth Comicpalooza and their third year in the George R. Brown Covention Center. The first Comicpalooza took place in the lobby of a movie theater. It was smaller than Ted Closson’s miniature convention that took place […]
shane # 4: season finale
shane # 4 was the product of an exercise to prepare for 24 Hour Comics Day 2005. The idea was to fill up two entire sketchbooks (150 pages each) with comics as quickly as possible. It was not important to tell a story or even to include word. I just divided the pages into […]
