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Local creator Zac Crockett has finished up drawing Anyone but Virginia #3 and has started in on issue #4. You can start reading issue #3, or start from the beginning of the series. The writer of the comic, Josh Eiserike, notes that a short live action film based on the comic is in the works.
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Cartoonist Gary Lister is taking the month of November to do the 30 characters in 30 days challenge. Lister explains the challenge:
The goal is to create 30 new characters for each day in November! The roots of this challenge begin at 30characters.com. Over 150 other artists and writers have signed up for this year’s challenge! By the end of November, the site will see the creation of thousands of new characters – everything from fantasy to superheroes/villains to slice-0f-life to characters for a dramatic novel! Please visit 3ocharacters.com and check it all out. It’s too late to participate for this year but according to site admin Tyler James, this is the event’s 2nd year and we have 4 times the participants as last year! Mark it on your calendar for 2011 and come join us then!
Check out Lister’s characters that he’s created so far for the challenge.
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The Missourian reporters who covered the local 24 hour comics day event have put up an audio slideshow. They also ran an online story about the event back in October.
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The latest issue of Mizzou Magazine is out, and they’ve posted a video interview with Mort Walker:
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This month Mick Beyers has been adding some color to his Buster Drake online comic. It’s quite a shift away from his strips he was creating when we profiled him last summer. The strips he’s been coloring so far have been ones that he finished during the 24 hour comic day event back in October.
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After speaking at this year’s Toonfest, cartoonist and musician Guy Gilchrist is coming back to Marceline Mo. on November 27th. According to the Linn County Leader, he’s giving presentations at 4pm and 7pm at the Uptown Theatre, with book signings after each talk. Gilchrist is best known as the artist behind the current Nancy comic strip.
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Local creator Scott Ziolko has been busy posting some comics to his flickr site. Go check out the first Owen Steelheart chapter he’s posted. You can also keep up with Ziolko’s tumblr blog to see more of his work.
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The Neosho Daily News has a large story that ran recently featuring Mort Walker talking about Camp Swampy. The Beetle Bailey comic strip takes place in the fictional Camp Swampy, which was inspired by Walker’s stay in Neosho Missouri’s Camp Crowder in 1943.
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Ben Chlapek has some new zines (He currently has a solo art show at Ragtag until mid-December):
Morgan has some new zines too:
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The 24 hour comic event in October was a chance for J.B. Winter to try a unique form of comic creation by light painting. He created 24 panels using a unique process involving a digital camera, plexiglass, and hand held lasers. You can read about the process of creating the comic on his blog. He was also interviewed for the Missourian story about the 24 hour comic event.
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During the 24 hour comic event in October, Josh Nichols used a novel method to create his comic: An ipad using the Brushes application and a hand held stylus. Nichols came away from the event with seven pages that you can see on his flickr page. For more insight into the process, check out a video of him drawing the comic posted by Keith Chan and check out the Missourian story about the 24 hour event.
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