Guide to becoming a Successful Comic Artist

Yep, my 72-pg mini-graphic novel,"GET INTO COMIX", is finally done, all printed up and everything. And despite what the self-deprecating comic above says, I'm pretty happy with it (although calling it my "personal masterpiece" is nothing I would claim in real life). No rejection letters as of yet, either ( I'm just getting to dropping 'em off at shops and doing mail-order sales, right now), but I always planned to self-publish 'cause who knows if it would happen otherwise? MAYBE, but hubris is not my forte.

If you'd like to get a copy of this book, just PAYPAL $7 to bradagenda@yahoo.com, leave your mailing address in the comments/notes, and I'll ship that sucka out to ya ( UNITED STATES ONLY, sorry!). And if you'd like me to draw a small sketch inside, I'd be happy to do that, as well.

Also, in case you haven't heard, the "AS YOU WERE" anthology (featuring comics by Mitch Clem, Liz Prince, Ben Snakepit and a 5-pg story that I contributed to it, as well) came out, and you can buy it HERE.

"Hey Brad, how's school goin'?"

Collegiate Times

RECAP!

I worked on this comic for, like, a week, usually while waiting for buses... maybe I should have just done a bunch of shorter strips, but I didn't.

So, here's what's been going on, more or less.

Comstupider

I happened to be going through one of my sketchbooks for school today, and came across the penciled page for this strip, which I'd somehow forgotten about. I've actually been done with the class for a couple of weeks, now.

At the last second, before the UPC 'zine thing up in Phoenix, I decided to go ahead and run off a few copies of "Epic Tales..."#8 since I already had the material put together. I only ended up printing 10 copies because, only a day or so earlier, I'd just printed a bunch of issues of #7 and was running low on cash.So, I'm out of #8 right now, but I'll have some more soon enough. And finally, here's a couple of sketchcards I've made recently.

"JAWS" is one of my favorite movies...

No new comics today, but I did work on this drawing for my DRAWING II class at MCC. I like how it's coming along, so far.

Grackelion!

This is another drawing I did in Illustrator for my 2D Computer Design Class. It's a cross between a Grackle and a Dandelion...

We have strange assignments.

Query???

Hey there, internet-peoples!

Yep, I'm still alive, and still severly overburdened with schoolwork, but I somehow found the time to draw this comic (I even renewed the "blackmarkercomics.com" URL, so you know I'll always come back here, whenever I get a slight reprieve). I wish had the time to draw more comics, but it takes lot of time to do all weird assignments and art-shit for my classes, like this drawing I did in Illustrator for my 2D Computer Design course:

Alright, hopefully I'll get back to drawing strips regularly during the summer months, but who knows?

School Days

As I've said before, I haven't had time to draw any comics, but I am producing a lot of, um, "art" at school. So, I figured I'd go ahead and put up a few pics of things I've made there, all in varying stages of completion.

The Difference Between Us

I'm actually in the middle of my second week of school, now; that should give you an indication of how much time I've had to draw comics.

The Matrix

It took me waaaaay longer to add in the "digital" panel ( drawn on a piece of graph paper ) and color it than I'd like to admit. I could have cleaned it up some more and made it look really good, but the hell with it.

The first 2 days of school usually mean that you're lectured on how the classes work and what to expect, blah blah blah, and then you get out of class early. This means you have even longer to wait between classes, so in addition to the first 2 panels of this strip, I drew this guy today...

Bad English

No, I didn't actually drop out; I just considered it for a REALLY long time.

Cruise my Shoes