THE SIMPSONS NEWS

So I’ve started work on show 500.  It’s a good show.  It’s gets crazy. Personally, I think I was given the funniest parts.  I was assigned Act 1 and the start of Act 2. The amount of script pages I was given is more than usual.  Figures I wouldn’t get off doing a normal amount of work on my first go.  Still, I’m up to the challenge.

I didn’t realize how much I’d enjoy myself. I know I’m doing really creative work because when I leave work, I’m still thinking about shots. I usually reserve that sort of problem solving to my personal projects.

The first two days I spent working on the couch in my office.  Something I almost never get to do.  You wouldn’t think that sitting down on a couch could be so exhausting. After my first four hours of sitting there composing shots, my brain felt like mush.  It helped to take a break for lunch and do something else with my brain.

So far, the only thing that really has me worried is the amount of time I’ve got to do this.  I’m trying to pace myself in such a way that I can get the most time cleaning up the drawings and least amount of time, coming up with them.  Hopefully, it won’t be too much of an issue.  Since this is my first time doing this on an actual show (as apposed to The Movie), I’m still feeling out what works best for me.
ART

The Chealsey Michigan art exhibit I’m a part of opens up this weekend.  The exhibit has some incredible art from some fantastic comic artists.  It makes be very proud to be associated with such an amazing pool of artists.

The artist exhibiting are:

• Dave Roman
• Raina Telgemeier
• Matt Feazell
• Jannie Ho
• Kasey Van Hise
• Brandon Dayton
• Kim Holm
• Luis Escobar
• Anne & Jerzy Drozd

So far the exhibit has gotten attention from the newspaper, THE DETROIT NEWS, in which I was mentioned.

CLICK HERE to read the article.

It’s been given podcast time by Jerzy Drozd, (who had the idea for the exhibit in the first place). Jerzy interviewed Deborah Greer, the owner of the Chelsea River Gallery, on his podcast for Kids Read Comics. They also mentioned me:

CLICK HERE to listen to the podcast.

And if you’re interested in seeing all the artwork in the exhibit, please feel free to check out the slide show that contains the artwork on display.

CLICK HERE to see the slide show.

The artwork is up for sale so keep that in mind. If you want to purchase my work, please give the gallery a call. Their numbers in their site.

VIDEOS

This is a fascinating documentary on the life of the king of comics, Jack Kirby. Thanks to Jon David Guerra on Twitter for posting a link to this:

ART

Here’s the final Alice in Wonderland illustration.  I decided to do a “sloppy inking” style on the blacks in the piece.  I like the look of that sometimes.  I’m not sure if it turned out well to do that or not.  I’m happy enough with the result to not want to do anything about it.

You’ll notice that in this final drawing,  the Mad Hatter’s arm  is down instead of up on the table, like I had it in my original pencils.  I changed it because I thought the pose looked forced with the hand up.

I really hope the drawing tells the story clearly.

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