Time Travel (Miriam)

A few months ago I drew a comic called Time Travel for the MOCCA Festival. Though I'd post some of the process below.


Here are some character sketches to flesh out the look of the comic and the main character.

From there I laid out the pages on 17"x14" sheets of newsprint using a my favorite drawing material, a ball point ben (probably a Bic). Here are a few scans of the news print, my scanner is A4 size so I had to scan in the image a couple of times per page then piece the page back together on photoshop.

After that it was color and typeset in photoshop. The color is a normal brush set to different opacities.

Who would believe the entire thing took me a week?

A Dream Comic and a Sketch (Andrea T)

That was a dream comic (rough)

Here are some things I've been working on for TERKA 2 --- trying out different amputee monsters. Still not there yet.

Meet the Tapir

A short video of our titular species.

See a short video from National Geographic about the Tapir!

Adventures of Max Quarterhorse - Miriam

After a little hiatus I'm back and posting again.

Most of this time was spent researching a producing the art for a new and exciting collaborative comic with Disgraced Productions' Robert Attenweiler. Because Robert is the writer, he describes the

story better than I ever could.

"Disgraced Comics is the new off-shoot of Disgraced Productions, offering original online visual dramatic storytelling. And in our first online comic, The Adventures of Max Quarterhorse, you will get to see the first-ever Independent Theater-to-comics crossover. The Adventures of Max Quarterhorse picks up where Disgraced Productions' 2008 play, All Kinds of Shifty Villains, leaves off. Private Investigator, Max Quarterhorse has just survived a case that has left his trusted assistant and most of his rogues gallery of villains dead. But one of the surviving villains wants to see a fallen comrade live again. And Portal-Face Pete, a mysterious newcomer on the scene, has his own schemes to execute, bringing him face-to-face with Max Quarterhorse.

The Adventures of Max Quarterhorse continues the darkly madcap take on film noir and crime fiction established in All Kind of Shifty Villains, but this time through the lens of Miriam Gibson's perfectly-suited visual style.

You'll have to see it to believe it - and you can only see it at disgracedproductions.com.

The Adventures of Max Quarterhorse will begin posting in August 2009."

Thanks Robert!

Above is sketch of Max himself and an unpolished part of the comic itself.

The Adventures of Max Quarterhorse will be up before you know it!

-Miriam

Name Change

Comics Queens is now Tapir Tooth! We still produce the same great sequential art and illustration, but with more frequent updates.

Those Tapirs are real nose-to-the-grindstone types.

MOCCA 2009!

Kicking Mocca's Teeth in! Peter & Preeti

Alexander, Katie, and Peter

We done gone crazy: Andrea & Peter.

Miriam and AJ Morales!

Peter, Miriam, and Andrea at the table.

Andrea, Peter, and KOOMI

MOCCA 2009 has come and gone!

Well, what a weekend! ComicsQueens (Peter, Miriam, KOOMI, and me) had a half-table at MOCCA this year, in the NY Armory, coincidentally on the anniversary of D-Day. It was two days stuffed with meeting cool people, seeing/buying great new comics, and showing our stuff. Highlights include sitting next to the Parsons table and chatting with the lovely Steven Guarrnaccia (Parsons is developing a Visual Narrative MFA in 2011, hopefully), eating delicious Vietnamese sandwiches, talking with Jon Lewis (True Swamp), Dr. McNinja, Kate Williamson, meeting the Rabid Rabbit folks and so many many other people. 

You can tell our brains are still a little fried from the weekend - but let me just say: mocca = cool people. Thanks so much to our friends Preeti, AJ, Alexander, Nick, Katie, and everyone else who came and showed us love!

To tell you the truth, we were a little fried in general ----- there was no AC, as many bloggers are pointing out, but on the plus side, the Armory looked a lot like a 1904 Zeppelin Parking Lot, so the building had lots of curiosities. Some soldiers were in the crowd --- I hope they had a good time. 

Here's what we were showing this year:

PETER QUACH - 1) TRANSIT 2) YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT JESUS

MIRIAM GIBSON - 1) GIBSONIUM 2) HORNITHOLOGY 3) AGED SAILOR SCOUTS 4) JAYBIRD SHIRTS

ANDREA TSURUMI - 1) TERKA #1, 2) EYEBALL AND SCREAMING NEMO 3) COMICS WALLETS

We have lots of new ideas for next year!

MOCCA Festival 2009

The Comics Queens are exhibiting at the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art's Festival this Saturday and Sunday.
Here are some of the wonderful things the group is bringing.

Peter Quach

Transit #1
A city in motion. Follow Dan as he navigates his life New York.






You may think you know enough about our Lord and Savior, but Peter is here to tell you otherwise with You Don't Know Much About Jesus. Get an education!



Andrea Tsurumi

A night in a bar populated with monsters and one human ends up like a night at any bar, with drinking stories and fisticuffs. Whose story tops them all? Find out or get the stuffing beat out of you, Terka in Drinking stories.


Let the earth's mightiest guard your precious remains of the economy with Andrea's handy comic book wallet! Enjoy these colorful, playful (and highly durable) wallets featuring panels from many different comic books. 4”x3” when folded, they fit nicely into any pocket.
Available at the MOCCA Festival and Andrea's Etsy shop.



Miriam Gibson





Get your hands on Gibsonium and be privy to comics the likes of which you will thoroughly enjoy!



Included are luscious color prints of Sailor Moon characters aged beyond belief ! Time stops for no man or pretty soldier of justice. See what the years have in store for the ladies of this animated classic.



Also included in Gibsonium is Time Travel. Throw Einstein to the winds! The ability to bend space can be yours*. Childhood hopes are smashed in this telling of dreams and acknowledgment of reality.


What happens when you combine ordinary birds with parts unknown? Hornithology: A Compendium of Dirty Birds and Foul Fowl! Captioned by AJ Morales.





What festival would be complete without a screen printed shirt of fine design? No festival at all. Wear this Jay Bird proudly, it says "hey, I'm a shirt, my owner's good taste makes us all look our best." Wonderful.

There is much more! Please stop my the Comics Queens table this weekend.