Blog Archive
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Wilfred Santiago interviewed at the Comics Journal
_ In the mainstream most of the time they make cartoons and such look like this dumb thing, but whether it’s the most powerful cartoon known to man, Mickey Mouse, the cartoons that can piss enough Muslims off to commit acts of terrorism, or the inspiration of some imagery for contemporary movements like Anonymous or the OWS, it’s obvious you can’t fuck with cartoons. _ > > Wilfred Santiago > >
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Odds and Ends: Pillbox Cover
I’ve recently been working on covers for the Tartan’s arts and culture magazine, Pillbox. I’m using this as a way to teach myself the basics of visual composition, clean illustration and strong typography. Hopefully the Tartan let’s me keep making the covers. They’re nice challenges.
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Odds and Ends: Work for the Tartan
A computer science program for women in CMU’s Qatar branch.
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Color and Design in Comics
A while back, Gene Fama put together some essays online that explore the process of effective comics production. I found this courtesy of Ed Piskor’s blog. The process section that I found particularly interesting was on coloring. I would certainly argue that unless making art comix or anything avant garde as a commercial illustrator, your best bet is to respect the principles that Fama puts forward.
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Can dead men die again?
Thanks to Phantom of The Attic Comics in Pittsburgh, I’ve gotten the pleasure to experience the 1986 mini-series put together by Andrew Helfer and Jose Luís García-López. They were kind enough to bundle the 4 part series and to sell it at the ever reasonable cover price of 75cents a pop.
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Big Blog of Kids Comics
I must be late to the game, seeing as how I just discovered the great repository of children’s comics that Mykal Banta has put together. Truth be told, though, so long as I get to see these comics I’m happy to even be playing!
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Lively jazz nights rekindle flame in Pittsburgh
A recent article that I wrote for CMU’s newspaper, The Tartan:
Interval Mondays and Space Exchange promise vivacious weekly performances
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Santoro Waxing Some Poetic Layout Type Shit
Don’t have much to say today, so I thought I’d let Frank Santoro do the talking. He’s out doing a West Coast Layout Tour, which, by the looks of it, seems to be going really well for him.
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Love and Comics
On Valentine’s Day, people everywhere shell out all sorts of denominations on flowers, candy and gifts. In honor of that most glorious consumer holiday, it would be seem to be most appropriate to highlight comics that are perfect for Valentine’s Day. Nevertheless, there are enough exhortations to purchase gifts at this time of the year, as such this column will not address what books to buy loved ones. Rather, the focus will be to examine how the traditional ideas espoused by Valentine’s Day manifest themselves in the cartooning work of three different authors, Charles Schulz, Jordan Crane and Chester Brown.
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