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[23 Jul 2008|11:10am] |
San Diego Schedule: UPDATED!
ARTISTS ALLEY-- TABLE GG-15
Thursday 1:00-4:00
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday NOON-4:00
I'll have books, prints, buttons, and be available for signing and commission sketches!
AGE OF THE SENTRY SIGNING--Booth #2207
Thursday 11:00 am – Noon
Cover artist Dave Bullock, writers Jeff Parker, Paul Tobin, artists Nick Dragotta & Colleen Coover, with EXCLUSIVE SENTRY give-away!
PRISM COMICS QUEER PRESS GRANT PORTFOLIO REVIEW-- Booth # 2146-48
Friday 4-5
Rather than a general critique, this review will provide suggestions on how to make a comics project more eligible for Prism Comics' Queer Press Grant. Stop by the booth in advance to see if you need to sign up!
MARVEL: WOMEN IN MARVEL--Room 6A
Sunday 10:30-11:30
She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel are powerhouses in the Marvel U, now meet the real women powerhouses who work in Marvel Comics today! Writers Robin Furth (Dark Tower), Marjorie Liu (NYX), Sherrilyn Kenyon (Lords of Avalon), Jen Grunwald (editor), colorist Christina Strain (Runaways), and Occasional Superheroine's Valerie D'Orazio [AND ME, COLLEEN COOVER] are here to answer your question about their titles, announce new projects, and explain how more women are breaking into comics every day!
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[16 Jul 2008|08:21pm] |
San Diego Comic Con is coming up next week, and we're going to be kicking it off with a bang right from the start! On Thursday, Dave Bullock is hosting a signing at Booth #2207 on the con floor to promote the upcoming (awesome) mini-series Age Of The Sentry:
THURSDAY 11:00 am – Noon:
SENTRY SIGNING: Cover artist Dave Bullock, writers Jeff Parker, Paul Tobin, artists Nick Dragotta & Colleen Coover, with EXCLUSIVE SENTRY give-away!
This is really exciting. Paul and Parker have been working together on The Age Of The Sentry for the past month or so; I have been assigned to draw one of Paul's half-issue stories for issue #3, and we are all having the best time! I'm looking forward to meeting Dave and Nick, and showing everyone the enthusiasm we all have for this project!
And today I've been invited to join Sunday's Women in Marvel panel:
SUNDAY 10:30-11:30
Marvel: Women in Marvel— She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel are powerhouses in the Marvel U, now meet the real women powerhouses who work in Marvel Comics today! Writers Robin Furth (Dark Tower), Marjorie Liu (NYX), Sherrilyn Kenyon (Lords of Avalon), Jen Grunwald (editor), colorist Christina Strain (Runaways), and Occasional Superheroine's Valerie D'Orazio are here to answer your question about their titles, announce new projects, and explain how more women are breaking into comics every day! Room 6A If you're at the con but you can't make it to these events, I have a table at Artists Alley, where I will have prints, art and books for sale, and I'll be available for commission sketches. I am planning on keeping scheduled "office hours" each afternoon, assuming I don't get another event scheduled in the meantime.
ARTISTS ALLEY TABLE GG-15
Thursday 1:00-4:00
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday NOON-4:00
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[13 Jun 2008|09:10pm] |
So the day after I went on Newsarama talking all about working with him, Paul Tobin went on the Pulse talking all about working with me.
THE PULSE: I'd imagine having your collaborator in house would make it a little easier if there were questions about how to have something play out on the printed page or about story direction, right?
TOBIN: Oh yes---very much so. And since Colleen did all the lettering I could make last second changes, and she was there to voice questions about why one character was saying something rather than another, etc. Colleen and I very much act as editors for each other’s works. We do it so much that we hardly ever get bothered by it anymore, and hide beneath the stairwell with our voodoo dolls, muttering incantations. READ MORE!
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[11 Jun 2008|02:28pm] |
There's a big ol' interview with me up in the Comics section at Newsarama, in which I talk mostly about my work at Marvel with my husband Paul Tobin and my Periscope studio-mate Jeff Parker:
Of course working with Paul is as natural to me as breathing air. He was my first writer and he’s either written or helped me write pretty much every comic I’ve done up until the beginning of my time working for Marvel. He knows what I like to draw, but he never lets me get lazy by staying in my comfort zone! Sometimes he’ll write a challenging scene for me to force me to push myself. My whole style has developed with his writing, and when I read his scripts I can see what the comic should look like in my head.
Parker writes like an artist because, you know, he is one; he’ll give me minimalist panel descriptions and let me intuit what he’s after. I think he writes a little more loosely for me than he would for an artist who doesn’t sit three feet away from him every day—our desks in Periscope Studio, where we each do most of our work, are separated by Parker’s orange metal bookcase full of Essential trades and Prince Valiant volumes. If I ever get stuck on a panel design I can swivel my chair and ask him what he wants, and usually he’ll just grab a piece of paper and sketch it out for me.
We’re all really fortunate in that we have set up a whole culture of collaboration for ourselves here in Portland. Not only do I work closely with Paul and Parker, they’ve also worked with each other—co-writing for What If? and the Free Comic Book Day Marvel Adventures Iron Man, and now they’re writing side-by-side stories in the upcoming Age of the Sentry mini. They both work regularly with other Periscope members, too: Paul does Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four with David Hahn, Parker has an issue of X-Men: First Class drawn by Karl Kesel coming up, his run on Virgin Comic’s Gamekeeper series was drawn by Ron Randall and Ron Chan, and he’s writing a spelunking thriller for Steve Lieber. It feels like we’re keeping it all in the family, which helps us all stay motivated and happy!
Read the whole interview!
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[08 May 2008|12:35pm] |
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Today at 2:00 PST! I'll be interviewed on the Inkstuds radio show-- LIVE, I guess! You can live stream the show here, or download the podcast off of iTunes later. What are we gonna talk about? Comics, duh!
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[07 May 2008|10:09pm] |
Third weekend in a row of comic book events! This weekend in Seattle: Emerald City!
Though the awesome Jeffrey Brown poster above is very indy-comics-centric, Emerald City is a great all-around comics show that is quickly becoming my favorite outside of Portland. Check out the guest list to see what a nice mix of independent and mainstream creators will be there, plus the traditional dealer's tables and sci-fi actor-types for ultimate geekitude.
Paul and I will be there, as well as our mutual collaborators and home-boys Jeff Parker and David Hahn, and pretty much the whole Periscope gang!
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[01 May 2008|09:46pm] |
One of Marvel's two books for Free Comic Book Day (this Saturday!) is...
MARVEL ADVENTURES: IRON MAN written by Jeff Parker & Paul Tobin, art by Alvin Lee and Terry Pallot.
That's right! Co-written by THE TWO GREATEST WRITERS IN COMICS HISTORY (my unbiased opinion!) it features Iron Man, the Hulk, and Spider-Man fighting Shellhead's old enemy, the Mandarin!
The cover of the book by David Nakayama is pictured above, but while Paul and Parker were working on the script, I painted this as an X-mas present for Paul:
My fellow Silver Age nerds will note that it should read "Seven Rings Hath The Mandarin" but then, you're too psyched about seeing the old Marvel monster Grottu to mind! Giant ants RULE!
Paul and I will be with many of our pals for the Free Comic Book Day event at Cosmic Monkey in Portland, while Parker will be at Super Villains, Inc. in Nottingham, Maryland!
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[25 Apr 2008|12:34pm] |
Boy-golly, it's time for Stumptown Comics Fest again already! Tomorrow and Sunday at the Lloyd Center Doubletree Hotel in Portland, Oregon from 10am to 6pm; $6 each day. (Such a deal!)
I'll be there, of course, as will Paul and all my homies from Periscope Studio. In fact, there will be a panel spotlighting Periscope on Sunday:
12pm-12:45pmSteve Lieber moderator: Spotlight on Periscope Studio
You can't read American comics without coming across one of Periscope Studio's 21 members. Crammed into a downtown Portland office suite, these artists and writers avoid killing each other for long enough to produce everything from best-sellers with Hollywood movie deals (White-Out, Steve Lieber) to popular super-hero titles (X-Men: First Class, Jeff Parker) to independent web and minicomics. Join Special Guest Steve Lieber and his studio-mates to find out who leaves their dishes in the sink, how not to break into the industry, and why comics might or might not be the weirdest career on earth. Other guests:
Brian Michael Bendis
Robyn Chapman
Derek Kirk Kim
Alec Longstreth
Larry Marder
Lark Pien
Dave Roman
Jason Shiga
Raina Telgemeier
Gene Yang
...and many more!
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[21 Apr 2008|08:03pm] |
Photos from Paris! Part One.
Paul and I stayed for three weeks in a tiny studio apartment in Belleville, a homey neighborhood populated largely by non-Europeans. On every block was a Chinese grocery, a Kosher butcher, and an Arabic bookstore-- each one frequented by local regulars who all seemed to know each other.
We kept seeing tile Space Invaders around the city. This is the corner opposite our building.
The stairs to our apartment!
From the patisserie around the corner-- a pistachio custard and a fruit tart. I visited there every morning to buy a baguette and some croissants for breakfast.
The western view from our little living room. It rained a lot while we were there, but on this early evening we got a treat!
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[20 Apr 2008|08:59pm] |
Hey, Pennsylvania!
Don't forget to vote in this week's primaries!
Have fun!
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[18 Apr 2008|11:11pm] |
I had a lot of work to do after Paul and I got back from our three weeks in Paris! (Yes I will post some photos soon-- we did so many cool things!) The first issue of Power Pack: Day One came out in March, with a short by me and writer Fred Van Lente explaining the basic physics of gravity. The second issue comes out next week, with another "edu-tainment " strip in which Katie Power explains the First Law Of Thermodynamics.
No, really.
Also next week, X-Men: First Class #11-- what Parker is calling "the most important Marvel Comic you could possibly pick up next week", "Most Important X-Men Story Ever", and even "world-changing"... and I drew two pages of the MAIN STORY. That's right! Not A Dream! Not An Imaginary Story!
And if that weren't enough quality entertainment from me and my friends, next week also ushers into the world Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #35, written by my husband Paul Tobin and lovingly drawn this month by David Nakayama!
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[02 Apr 2008|10:37am] |
Where have I been?
...and now I'm back.
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[27 Feb 2008|05:32pm] |
Darn it! One of the backup stories Jeff Parker and I did for today's X-Men First Class got bumped to a later issue! So I'm sorry I led you all on with the teaser the other day. So no Warren Worthington III, The Poor Little Rich Mutant until later.
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[26 Feb 2008|07:37pm] |
My husband Paul Tobin has a big ol' interview up on Newsarama about his his upcoming writing arc that will jump-start the new title Marvel Adventures Superheroes.
And while he was at it, when interviewer Zack Smith asked him if he and I would be doing any Marvel work together, he replied:
PT: Work with my wife? Hmm, I suppose that might be interesting. But only if we could have Spider-Man in the story. And a lot of girls. Like, oh, Hellcat, and Mary Jane, and She-Hulk, and Clea, and the Enchantress, and Marvel Girl, and the Scarlet Witch. Also, I wouldn’t budge if we couldn’t use Millie the Model. Yep, we’d need Millie.
Yeah, all that would be great, but what’s the chance of that happening? By the way, here’s some teaser art from an upcoming full-length story that Colleen Coover and I are working on.
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[22 Feb 2008|07:31pm] |
Steve posted a bunch of photos of some of the Periscope Studio members in our natural environment over at the studio website. For the record, Parker is NOT reaching over to have me pull his finger.
ME
JONATHAN CASE
SARAH BURINI (Periscope intern)
CAT ELLIS
TERRI NELSON
JEFF PARKER
RICH ELLIS
PAUL GUINAN
DAVID HAHN
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[19 Feb 2008|12:24pm] |
Dave Carter has been in my corner! He has posted several times on his Yet Another Comics Blog that Marvel has been remiss in their Coover-ly duties by neglecting to inform readers of my upcoming contributions in their solicitations. Why, asks Dave, would Marvel decline the opportunity to use news of my work as a selling point for their funnybooks? Today, X-Men First Class writer Jeff Parker offers the answer.
By the way, the next issue of X-Men First Class comes out next week, and features this image:
as well as this one:
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[17 Feb 2008|10:05am] |
Paul and I had a little Day-After Valentine's date at the Portland Art Museum. We'd been eager to see "The Dancer"; a special exhibition of French Impressionists Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Jean-Louis Forain. We were of course both familiar with Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec is one of Paul's great heroes, but Forain was completely unknown to us.
I'm not sure if the above images were in the exhibit, but they are good examples of Forain's cartooning style (and in the second case, one of his favored subjects-- a wealthy gentleman paying a backstage call on a young ballerina.) I wish I could find images of some of the paintings and pastels we saw, but no dice.
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