Scribbles Drawing for Mac

If you're a regular reader of my blog you know i like inexpensive and free drawing applications. I've raved about Rita, ArtRage and Tablet Draw. Today a new inexpensive ($20) Mac drawing application was released, Scribbles. It's something like a cross between Rita and ArtRage and it is fun as hell to use. Check out the free demo and have fun.

scribbles - simple drawing for Mac

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LookyBook

HOLY CRAP!
Hats off to Drawn! for this tip as well. Complete illustrated children's books online that you can flip through

Lookybook | Home

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Lego Batman game

I want it.

Lego Indiana Jones Game

I'm such a sucker for this kind of stuff.

The Perfect Holiday Gift!

The Artist Within by Greg Preston
I stopped by the local library yesterday to pick up a copy of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (i want to read the book before the Will Smith movie comes out - I saw the Charlton Heston version The Omega Man back when it came out, but honestly I don't remember much about it). While at the library I saw a book on the new releases display that blew me away, The Artist Within by Greg Preston. This coffee table photo book features lovely portraits of several generations of American cartoonists. The portraits are usually shot in artist's studio, which is the most intimate and revealing part. I highly recommend this for anyone who enjoys comic books, comic strips and animation.

Skitch

A very interesting screen capture and drawing tool from the makers of Comic Life.

plasq.com - Skitch - Snap, Draw, Share

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Blast from the Past

It's amazing what still exists on the web. I was looking for some information about myself on the web. Google brought up a link to the great web site by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennet. I had done a small interactive promotional piece for them over 10 years ago to promote their Heartbreakers comic book. On the link page of their web site, Big Red Hair, they had a link to my old AOL home page web site. Instantly I thought, "Oh, my god, that's a dead link." I haven't updated that site in 12 years. I dropped AOL 4 years ago. But, to my surprise and embarassment that site is still live on the web in all it's 8-bit GIF glory!

Enjoy.

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Sweet Cartoonist

Ape Lad on Flickr.

Flickr: Photos from Ape Lad

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Buynlarge

Second Pixar Wall-e trailer. Buy-n-large corporate web site.

Web Comics

Truth be told, I rarely make it to a comic book store any more. I lived in Chicago for 20 years and had access to some of the very best comic book shops in the world, but in the last 5 years I rarely went to a comic book store. Basicly I made an annual pilgrimage to the store to see what was new, which usually resulted in one purchase and that was usually a Marvel or DC comic. I respect and like a lot of the work from other publishers and the alternative press, but the truth is I grew up on DC and Marvel and I'm a junkie. I need my DC/Marvel fix. Sad. But true.

Now I live in the boonies of Montana. Well, OK. Not THE boonies. The town is small but cosmopolitan and artsy, but still not a single comic book shot within 100 miles. So the web is my mainline to comics. As a result I've put some serious time into tracking down web comics that I like. Right now there are only two. Both at the wonderful Transmission-X site.

The first is the brilliant Kukuburi by Ramon Perez. The second is the lovely and charming Luz by Claudia Dávila.

ZUDA

WOW.
I like.
DC has got the presentation of web comics right. Granted the presentation is not the end all and be all, when it comes to web comics, but dang it sure helps. Too, too many web comic sites bury the content. Or simply don't format it for the computer screen.

Welcome to RGB Comics

In mid 2008 RGB Comics will start publishing web comics. Until that time, this blog will be my little soapbox to rant and rave about comic books.
Welcome.