My "Sunflower Room" Comic is Published
The new comic anthology book is out now!
Drawing with other cartoonists and comic book artists can help keep you motivated and inspired.
My artist group, the Southbay Comickers, publishes book collections of our short illustrated stories annually. The members can work on comics each week when we meet at a cafe together and talk about new drawing tips we’ve learned or anything in the comics/art world while we draw.
The anthologies are always based on a theme. This year, it’s sunflowers. Each story should have a sunflower somewhere in the story. Even though I’ve been a part of the group for several years, I haven’t made time to join in making a short story for the book—until now.
For the first, I’m in one!
You can buy the latest book, Sunflower, here on the website in book format or as an E-book.
I shared the black-and-white version of my five-page short story, The Sunflower Room, with you in the newsletter about a year ago. Well, now it’s in color and printed in the collection.
Here’s a preview:
I was looking to try something different and stretch my combination of traditional American comics with Japanese Manga (like Astro Boy) with a hint of Street Fighter video game martial arts. Making something that felt like the start of a possible larger story, I think, came across in this comic.
Each artist with a comic in the book has a unique style and approach to visual storytelling that will inspire and make you think. It’s a lovely collection.
You can read sample pages on the website before you purchase and I hope you’ll check it out.
Most of the artists have other “day jobs” and enjoy making comics for fun, but when you buy the book, you’re helping to encourage and support my friends on our creative journeys.
You can BUY THE PRINT COPY HERE.
The Ebook version as a PDF HERE.
You can read more about the Comickers GROUP HERE.
Congratulations! This looks incredible!!!
Congrats!