Comix Rock: Art & Music Showcase
Mar 2nd
Comix Rock: Art & Music Showcase
It’s hard to sum up our art show happening April 23rd at Local’s Only Art and Music Pub. There’s so much going on at this event. We of the Indy Webcomics Group are releasing our anthology, a collection of comic art and short stories entitled: Welcome to Indiana. The show also launches our display of comics and art which will stay up at Local’s Only through the end of May.
Lady Lenore Evermore and The Creme De Les Femmes Burlesque troupe will be hosting a Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School event, anyone can participate in. The Femmes models will be dressed in super hero garb, and prizes will be given out, donated by Hero House Comics.
Three local bands will be performing after the Dr. Sketchy’s event: The Dirty Thirty, Beta Male and Destination: Earth!
The show will be $6 at the door. Free goody bags will be given to attendees courtesy of Hero House Comics.
This kind of event is a first for us but most likely not a last. There’s something in the mindset of local artists and local musicians that both groups share in common. They occupy overlapping circles of creative energy and interests. The combination of the two, with live art models and costumes and prizes is a no-brainer.
For more information, contact our group organizers.
-Lee Cherolis
IWG Announces Comic Anthology
Feb 12th
The Indy Webcomics Group will soon be releasing a new comic anthology filled with short stories and artwork from all local artists and writers. The book is expected to be released officially on April 23rd.
A mockup of the new anthology's cover.
Here’s the blurb from the back cover:
“The Indy Webcomics Group was founded in 2007 as a vehicle to connect and promote Indiana’s independant comic scene. IWG is comprised of a diverse group of comic book artists and writers living and working in Indiana.
2010 sees IWG expanding with new blood and new goals, the first of which is this collection of comic art and short stories. Welcome to Indiana is an eclectic mix of styles and genres reflecting the authors’ many influences in today’s graphic media ranging from animation and Manga to the Golden Age of comics.”
We’ll be announcing on this blog as soon as the book is available to buy. And leading up to the book’s release we may post a sample page or two to tease and entice you.
PS. With this post we officially re-launch indywebcomics.com with an updated look and lots more new content on the way.
Hooray!
-Lee Cherolis
Editor, Indy Webcomics Group
New England Webcomics Weekend Video Part1
Mar 27th
Lee Cherolis of BRAINSTORMING: Digital Comics has finished the first of several videos recorded during the 2009 New England Webcomics Weekend.
NEWW Panel: Print Vs. Web Vs. A Bear from Lee Cherolis on Vimeo.
The Print Vs. Web Vs. A Bear video just made it up on the blog@ section of Newsarama.com
Next videos on the list (coming soon to the B:DC Blog):
Webcomics Can Get You Into Trouble panel
Your Compelling and Profitable Webcomic panel
Awards Ceremony
A Webcomics Weekend – an overview video of the entire show from the panels to the Awards with
Interview questions from:
Jorge Cham
Randy Milholland
Danielle Corsetto
Jon Rosenberg
Meredith Gran
Steven Cloud
Rene Engström
Chris Hallbeck
KC Green
Ross Scott
T Campbell
Joel Watson
IWG Attending New England Webcomics Weekend
Mar 18th
Sam and I will be attending the New England Webcomics Weekend. This is a first of it’s kind, never before attempted, webcomics-only artist show and open-house. Like a mini convention without all the random T-shirt vendors and cosplayers (hopefully).
Just check out their guest list! With even more internet cartoonists in attendence. If this becomes a yearly thing, I’d reccommend it among the CAN’T MISS events each year.
Did I mention it’s free? Their FAQ vaguely mentions merch available from attending artists so conceivably there will be table space to sell from. I’ll have to confirm once we get there but free exhibiting table space would be a definite plus.
I’ll be recording much of the event for a video I plan to release on my blog Brainstormingcomics.com as well as on my Friday column at Newsarama.com.
Friday the only event is a Pub Crawl all over Northhampton Mass. Which we will miss unfortunately because we’ll be ass-deep in our road trip to get there.
Saturday and Sunday are packed with innovative and awesome events for geared towards the webcomics creator as well as the fans, as well as your standard panel discussions and a game room.
This is a landmark event in Webcomics history. See you there.
REMINDER: Comics Workshop This Saturday
Feb 25th
Just a reminder: Sam, Seth and I will be helping kids to make comics at the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library, downtown. The workshop is this Saturday, Feb 28th from 2-4pm. It’s geared for a younger crowdbut everyone is invited. Bring your kids, tell people at work, you don’t want to miss it. There will be paper, pens, markers, computers and laptops, everything you need to make comics. And trust me, you need to check out IMCPL’s Learning Curve facility in the library. It’s the kids/young adult section and is just about the coolest setup I’ve ever seen. We’ll even be using a room with floor-to-cieling dry erase boards to sketch on. I would have done anything for a library this cool, with these kinds of resources when I was growing up. It’s a short workshop but we’ll stick around a bit after the official time runs out to hang out a draw.
This is our first workshop, but if this goes well we hope to be doing these on a semi-regular basis with IMCPL, and other libraries as word gets out. Check back here to find out how it went if you can’t make it out. Maybe you can catch the next one!
-Lee