One of my regular clients, for whom I do character design work, is currently producing one of his comics with a page artist. But he’s preparing to begin another one, also in the same genre sphere: Star Wars meets Star Trek with some adventure, some auto-biography and some humor. He’s looking for artists who are able to produce inked pages with text, from his script.

I’m still not taking on sequential work (I have enough on my plate with Finit-e) but I told him I’d extend the offer to the gang here at R3. If you have an interest, he’s paying $50/page, and it will be a small press/self-published book which you can add to your portfolio.

Email or PM me if interested and I’ll connect you up. Please have sequential samples ready.

Good luck, yall.

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Oni Press is engaged in another talent search and who knows, YOU could be the next Oni star! Certainly won’t hurt to look through it, and it beats going to cons with your portfolio cold. It ALWAYS helps to know your audience.

Here’s the press release from their site:

” Following the rousing success of 2005’s Oni Press Talent Search, the boys and girls here at W.H.O.O.P.s (World Headquarters Of Oni Press) are at it again with an all-new storytelling challenge! With Comic-Con International just around the corner, Oni Press is pleased to announce that we are once again giving artists an opportunity to show off their skills. In order to have your portfolio reviewed by an Oni Press editor at Comic-Con you will need to illustrate one or more of the three scripts found on this page. Realizing that different artists are geared towards different subject matter, four different professional writers have developed three different five-page scripts, each one using a different genre and showcasing a different personal scripting style. The genres and authors are: (click the genre to download the script PDF for that story)

• “Noir” by Jen Van Meter (JSA Classified, Hopeless Savages)

• “Romance” by Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir (Past Lies, New X-Men)

• “Comedy” by Jim Massey (Death Takes A Holiday)

Last year’s Talent Search was a gi-normous success! With Oni Press examining hundreds of different artist samples, we were lucky to find several who were ready for a shot at comic book stardom. Joe Infurnari, resident of Brooklyn, NY and artist of the recently released graphic novella Borrowed Time, with writer Neal Shaffer, was one such artist who came to our attention through the talent search. Halifax, Nova Scotia’s own Mike Holmes was another. He’s collaborating with writer Ian Shaughnessy for a new graphic novel entitled Shenanigans, due out this Fall!

In order to have your portfolio reviewed, you must illustrate at least one of the above stories. In addition to presenting the original art at the review session, interested parties must also bring with them photocopies of both pencilled art and inked art for Oni Press to keep as reference. Each photocopied page should include the artist’s name, phone number, and e-mail address and measure 8 ½”x11″. The samples should be submitted in a manila envelope that also includes the artist’s name and contact information. Illustrating one of these stories and following the above guidelines guarantees you an appointment time to meet with an Oni editor at Comic-Con during the convention’s posted hours.

Not attending Comic-Con? While Oni Press does not usually accept unsolicited submissions, this is a special event and non-attending artists can submit their packet, following the guidelines above. If all guidelines are followed, submitters will get an e-mail response from Oni Press in three to six months. We realize this may seem like a long time frame, but after receiving hundreds, if not thousands of submissions last year, we feel that this is a realistic estimate given our editors’ already busy schedules. The written critique may not be as valuable as a good person-to-person critique at San Diego, but thems the breaks. Packets must be postmarked no later than July 31, 2006. Packets must be sent to:

ONI PRESS TALENT SEARCH 2006

1305 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Suite A

Portland, OR 97214

While Oni Press will not be reviewing portfolios for individuals who have not followed the above guidelines, we will be accepting project proposals at the convention (but due to legal and time restrictions, not by mail). Project proposals should include all pertinent contact info and include an overview of the project, sample script, and sample sequential art if it’s available (writers can still submit without art). Proposals will not be reviewed on site, but will be taken back to the World Headquarters of Oni Press (W.H.O.O.P.s!) for review as time permits.

If you have any questions concerning your submission before you send it, you can mail ThisBetterBeGood@OniPress.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you for your interest and good luck!

James Lucas Jones

Editor in Chief

Oni Press”

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Here’s a write-up and interview, courtesy of Newsarama…

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Hi, gang!

One particular question that NEVER seems to be addressed is of comic book page rates. Most companies don’t make them public and probably each professional artist has his own deal according to his contribution, reputation and the nature of each particular project. It makes sense that an artist like Alex Ross has a different page rate from Gary Frank -not saying one’s better than the other, only that they do different things and have different levels of popularity and recognition, but… there must be some standard? Opinons? Comments?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Spider

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This week’s Jam selection was… Popeye. Unexpected, to say the least. I chose to find left field, and then draw to the left of that. It’s no Ashley Wood, but hey. Hope you like it!

You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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Don’t think I need to post refs for this one… Do I?

V

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This week’s jam character in the This Week Jam is Warrior Woman, an obscure Marvel Nazi amazon type.

The early jam entries for the week were all so gorgeous, with really tantalizing versions of the character in various interpretations of retro latex betty villainy, that I decided to go a different route, and do a TRDL redesign of the character. I chose to re-envision her as a female Nazi supersoldier serum recipient, so I made her muscular, mannish and physically imposing. You’ll note a certain popular DC heroine in peril here. For Warrior Woman’s costume, I used my usual TRDL design logic, and introduced some vintage Third Reich imagery, but contemporary in execution, and focused on color relationship. I quite like it.

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While we’re at it, the original concept of this character, combined with my re-imagining of her origin and costume design, reminds me a lot of one of my other TRDL redesigns… of Wonder Woman: I gave her the terribly original title Wunderdame, and you can see this interpretation here:

http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/trdco … rdame.html

You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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I started learning inking with nibs and brushes round about ’94. I pretty quickly became a just brush inker. Then for a long time (hmm, six years?) I wasn’t inking anything at all, just pencilling.

Then recently I started inking some illos for a project, and got great (to me) results out of my nibs (hunts 102)

stuff like this (these are details only ’cause I can’t show the finished illos yet):

http://www.cheeseman-meyer.com/art/sket … monkey.jpg

http://www.cheeseman-meyer.com/art/sket … 1train.jpg

The ink flowed, the pen did what I wanted to, the line was flexible and expressive.

Then suddenly, it stopped working. The last three illos I’ve tried to ink I’ve given up in frustration, and finished in markers and brushes. The ink won’t come off my nib. It just stays there, no matter how much I overload it. Full nib of ink, seven or eight scratches into the paper before one of them lays down a line. Or I need to press the nib into the paper, count to three, then start drawing and that’ll get a line (usually). It’s the same stock of paper, same ink. Same nib (though I washed it) and have tried my other nibs with similar problems.

Anyone have any tips on how to alleviate this problem? It’s really making it impossible for me.

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http://www.lostgenerationhandbook.com/warriorwoman.htm

Couldn’t find much on this one, any help would be appreciated.

V

Edit: here are a few pics of her:

“Warrior Woman (Freida Ratsel) was a Nazi supervillain from Marvel Comics’ first Invaders series. She was given a super-strength formula similar to the one used on Master Man, but Warrior Woman’s version seemed to be more stable. She had only contempt for the bumbling Master Man, yet Hitler was so enamored of his new “super couple” that he ordered them to marry each other. Fortunately for her, the wedding was broken up by an attack from the Invaders!

Frau Ratsel was put into a form of cryonic suspension after the war, not being recovered until after the German reunification. A man who called himself “Herr Nacht” had fallen in love with her image, and had re-created the strength formula and taken it himself, becoming a self-proclaimed new Master Man. Unfortunately, it seems her long freeze had given Warrior Woman some brain damage, complicating her recovery. Herr Nacht attempted to use the blood of the original Human Torch to try to heal her, but the involvement of the Sub-Mariner, Captain America, Union Jack, and an elderly Jaqueline Chrichton prevented that. However, the original Master Man had also been awakened and, tired of her berating him, took his revenge by blowing up the building they were in. At present, it is unknown if any of these villains survived.”

-thom

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The This Week jam’s character chosen at random for the jam was Barbarella, of film and comics legend.

I almost didn’t get one in this week, due to some minor surgery on my drawing hand, which has been stitched up inconveniently tenderly. Ha. But Friday evening I was feeling like I had enough mobility to have a go at it, and penciled and inked it forthwith, with colors done tonight. However, the line quality does suffer despite the effort, I’m afraid. I couldn’t decide between two great outfits Fonda wore, and so ultimately I decided to give both a go. Hope you like it!

You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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