the attic of the wrong

Learning to make comics and novels and bun cha ha noi

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nogoodhabits: batbrobeyond: Going through my old art, and shuddering at the awfulness, this one has actually held up pretty well.  I don’t think I’ve ever shared it on here before. I enjoyed Justice League: Generation Lost for the most part. this picture is actually a pretty flawless summary of the series, too. Genuinely everything you need to know about the plot of Justice League: Generation Lost. 

nogoodhabits:

batbrobeyond:

Going through my old art, and shuddering at the awfulness, this one has actually held up pretty well.  I don’t think I’ve ever shared it on here before.

I enjoyed Justice League: Generation Lost for the most part.

this picture is actually a pretty flawless summary of the series, too.

Genuinely everything you need to know about the plot of Justice League: Generation Lost. 

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bigbardafree: comicallycool: touchofgrey37: notthiscrap: IT’S SNOWING. PRAISE EVERYTHING.  “And, and also, when a penguin really loves likes another penguin, they stay together forever.” “Are you asking me to be your penguin, Guy?” “…” “I’d love to be your penguin, Guy.” B’awww  Guh it’s so cute AUGH they look so FINN FAMILY MOOMINTROLL!

bigbardafree:

comicallycool:

touchofgrey37:

notthiscrap:

IT’S SNOWING. PRAISE EVERYTHING. 

“And, and also, when a penguin really loves likes another penguin, they stay together forever.”

“Are you asking me to be your penguin, Guy?”

“…”

“I’d love to be your penguin, Guy.”

B’awww

 Guh it’s so cute

AUGH they look so FINN FAMILY MOOMINTROLL!

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This is me! :D icgeeks-publishing: Happy Thursday, Geeks! One more day until…Friday. Today, take a journey to the past with Journeymen Writer and Womanthology Assistant Production Manager Laura Morley (see above)! Take the helm, Laura! (…sorry, had to say that…) ICG: What inspired you to write this piece?  LM: The idea behind ”Steadfast in Peril” wormed under my skin a few years ago, when I read a news story on the auction of a little piece of salvage from the wreck of the Titanic: a bunch of keys belonging to the ship’s drowned postmaster. The Titanic—the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, to give the ship her full name—had five postmen aboard; all spent their final hours struggling (hopelessly, it turned out) to haul some of the ship’s thousands of sacks of mail to a higher deck and to safety. At first hearing, isn’t that a pathetic story? Everyone’s heard someone compare a futile task to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Of all the things to do in the face of chilly death, doggedly hefting mailbags seems unbearably small and pointless, but the idea of it wriggled under my skin because something in it was also heroic. These stalwart, post-Edwardian men knew their ship was going down, and survivors report that all of them chose not to try to evacuate: they almost certainly knew they were going to die. The one thing they didn’t know was whether they would fail in the work they’d set themselves. They chose to spend their final moments doing that work—and, well, what else could they do? What else can any of us do? We know that none of us will make it off the sinking ship of our own lives in the end, but that doesn’t seem to lead to general paralysis. We don’t know whether our work will succeed, but we keep doing it anyway.  ICG: What drew you to Journeymen?  LM: I saw a tweet about the project, thought of ”Steadfast,” and crossed my fingers really hard. I liked how open IC Geeks Publishing was about the submissions process, how much interest there had been, and why they wanted to do this: it’s very energizing to see someone make a concerted effort to help aspiring creators get their work seen. We were trying to do something similar with Womanthology, the all-female pro/newcomer comics anthology launched last year, on which I worked as assistant project manager. I find it really heartening to see people in the comics community giving each other a hand-up. That’s the kind of stuff that does make it a community, in a way you don’t seem to get with prose fiction. ICG: Is this your first collaboration?  LM: No, I’m quite spoilt –I’ve been lucky enough to work with some terrific artists already. I wrote a comic for Womanthology (due in March from IDW), and asked to work with Thalia de la Torre - I was very lucky she said yes. Thalia has this incredibly expressive and color-rich style that makes me jump up and down with glee. I worked with another excellent artist, Tanja Wooten, on a one-pager for the Womanthology holiday special - Tanja’s work is beautiful, textured, and completely charming, and she is going places in illustration. My first ever collaborator was my artist friend Mia, who lovingly slapped down my tendency to cram each page with nine panels and 200 words of overwrought dialogue, and who brought my visual thinking along leaps and bounds.  ICG: What else do you do writing wise? LM: I’m working on a graphic novel called The Silver Spectre. It’s about a daydreamer who’s dressed up as a Golden Age comic-book hero, for an embarrassing temp job, when he gets caught up in a disaster and propelled into a rescue adventure that’s suspiciously close to fulfilling his most heroic dreams. (If there’re any artists reading this with an affection for Golden Age-style knockabout heroics, I’d love to hear from them!) I have a couple of other mini-comics looking for homes - one about the day the aliens come (and go again); one about the last newspaper personal ad in the world. I’m also on draft two of two novels - one’s about the end of the world, as seen from the half-submerged Cambridge University Library; the other’s based on the true story of an English missionary who, shaken up by military service in the First World War, wrote an explosively smutty memoir that got him defrocked, took up with a truck-driving nurse, and ran off to Tahiti to become a kind of early prophet of free love. Once all of that stuff’s done and dusted, my writing dream is to introduce Ralph and Sue Dibny: Ghost Detective Agency to the DC post-Flashpoint universe. You’ve got to have a dream, right? -  Absolutely! Thank you so much, Laura, and if there’s anything ICG Publishing can do to help, please let us know! Look for “Steadfast in Peril” in Journeymen, Volume One, this April, and don’t forget. ICG Publishing is still accepting submissiona for Volume Two. For more info, click HERE!  - Dev

This is me! :D

icgeeks-publishing:

Happy Thursday, Geeks! One more day until…Friday. Today, take a journey to the past with Journeymen Writer and Womanthology Assistant Production Manager Laura Morley (see above)! Take the helm, Laura! (…sorry, had to say that…)

ICG: What inspired you to write this piece? 

LM: The idea behind ”Steadfast in Peril” wormed under my skin a few years ago, when I read a news story on the auction of a little piece of salvage from the wreck of the Titanic: a bunch of keys belonging to the ship’s drowned postmaster. The Titanic—the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, to give the ship her full name—had five postmen aboard; all spent their final hours struggling (hopelessly, it turned out) to haul some of the ship’s thousands of sacks of mail to a higher deck and to safety.

At first hearing, isn’t that a pathetic story? Everyone’s heard someone compare a futile task to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Of all the things to do in the face of chilly death, doggedly hefting mailbags seems unbearably small and pointless, but the idea of it wriggled under my skin because something in it was also heroic. These stalwart, post-Edwardian men knew their ship was going down, and survivors report that all of them chose not to try to evacuate: they almost certainly knew they were going to die. The one thing they didn’t know was whether they would fail in the work they’d set themselves. They chose to spend their final moments doing that work—and, well, what else could they do? What else can any of us do? We know that none of us will make it off the sinking ship of our own lives in the end, but that doesn’t seem to lead to general paralysis. We don’t know whether our work will succeed, but we keep doing it anyway. 

ICG: What drew you to Journeymen? 

LM: I saw a tweet about the project, thought of ”Steadfast,” and crossed my fingers really hard. I liked how open IC Geeks Publishing was about the submissions process, how much interest there had been, and why they wanted to do this: it’s very energizing to see someone make a concerted effort to help aspiring creators get their work seen. We were trying to do something similar with Womanthology, the all-female pro/newcomer comics anthology launched last year, on which I worked as assistant project manager. I find it really heartening to see people in the comics community giving each other a hand-up. That’s the kind of stuff that does make it a community, in a way you don’t seem to get with prose fiction.

ICG: Is this your first collaboration? 

LM: No, I’m quite spoilt –I’ve been lucky enough to work with some terrific artists already. I wrote a comic for Womanthology (due in March from IDW), and asked to work with Thalia de la Torre - I was very lucky she said yes. Thalia has this incredibly expressive and color-rich style that makes me jump up and down with glee. I worked with another excellent artist, Tanja Wooten, on a one-pager for the Womanthology holiday special - Tanja’s work is beautiful, textured, and completely charming, and she is going places in illustration. My first ever collaborator was my artist friend Mia, who lovingly slapped down my tendency to cram each page with nine panels and 200 words of overwrought dialogue, and who brought my visual thinking along leaps and bounds. 

ICG: What else do you do writing wise?

LM: I’m working on a graphic novel called The Silver Spectre. It’s about a daydreamer who’s dressed up as a Golden Age comic-book hero, for an embarrassing temp job, when he gets caught up in a disaster and propelled into a rescue adventure that’s suspiciously close to fulfilling his most heroic dreams. (If there’re any artists reading this with an affection for Golden Age-style knockabout heroics, I’d love to hear from them!) I have a couple of other mini-comics looking for homes - one about the day the aliens come (and go again); one about the last newspaper personal ad in the world. I’m also on draft two of two novels - one’s about the end of the world, as seen from the half-submerged Cambridge University Library; the other’s based on the true story of an English missionary who, shaken up by military service in the First World War, wrote an explosively smutty memoir that got him defrocked, took up with a truck-driving nurse, and ran off to Tahiti to become a kind of early prophet of free love. Once all of that stuff’s done and dusted, my writing dream is to introduce Ralph and Sue Dibny: Ghost Detective Agency to the DC post-Flashpoint universe. You’ve got to have a dream, right?

-

 Absolutely! Thank you so much, Laura, and if there’s anything ICG Publishing can do to help, please let us know!

Look for “Steadfast in Peril” in Journeymen, Volume One, this April, and don’t forget. ICG Publishing is still accepting submissiona for Volume Two. For more info, click HERE!

 - Dev

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I also like how he looks like the British version of Dennis the Menace, as if portrayed in some imaginary live-action movie by Colin Farrell. rememberedheroes: Today Jojo draws The Comedian. Watchmen week continues, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results so far. This drawing is much closer than yesterday’s. She got the attitude, the guns, the suspender-y things. She gave him camo pants, which he doesn’t have, but he does spend time in the military, so that’s an easy mistake. She also left off his mask and mustache but I’ll allow it, since she remembered his cigar. I especially like that he’s not aiming his guns at anything, just happily showing them to us. He’s so proud of his guns. I was very impressed that she remembered to give him his smiley face button. When I pointed this out, she said, “Well yeah I remember, it’s on the first page.” To which I said, “Sure but Silk Spectre was on lots of pages and you still drew her like a pouty 80s dancer.

I also like how he looks like the British version of Dennis the Menace, as if portrayed in some imaginary live-action movie by Colin Farrell.

rememberedheroes:

Today Jojo draws The Comedian.

Watchmen week continues, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results so far.

This drawing is much closer than yesterday’s. She got the attitude, the guns, the suspender-y things. She gave him camo pants, which he doesn’t have, but he does spend time in the military, so that’s an easy mistake. She also left off his mask and mustache but I’ll allow it, since she remembered his cigar. I especially like that he’s not aiming his guns at anything, just happily showing them to us. He’s so proud of his guns.

I was very impressed that she remembered to give him his smiley face button. When I pointed this out, she said, “Well yeah I remember, it’s on the first page.”

To which I said, “Sure but Silk Spectre was on lots of pages and you still drew her like a pouty 80s dancer.