Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I am probably late to the game when it comes to sharing these, but Cheeming Boey’s Sharpie and Coffee Cup art is just great. Who needs fancy art supplies? Here’s how he does it:

And if you seen the cups, but haven’t been to his website to read his cute little journal comics, you are missing out:

Work In Progress is a blog that shows comics pages coming to life from initial sketches to finished piece, with various stages in between. The images are all in Flash, and we see them blend seamlessly into each other, which makes for an interesting effect. The blog is in Spanish, but you certainly don’t need to be able to read any of the words to appreciate the work here.

Shown here, the work of Enrique Fernández.

Check out Leigh Walton’s Tintin sketchbook Flickr set. Lots of great Tintins. And Haddocks. And Snowys.

Drawn! fave, Tom Gauld, has a new website for his brilliant illustrations. It’s chock full of his dry wit and deceptively simple drawings. Also find him on Flickr and Twitter, and previously on Drawn!

Rebecca Dart works in the animation industry designing locations and backgrounds, but there are some lovely things happening (including this comic/ballad, completed here:) on her LiveJournal(NSFW). I’m really digging her lady barbarian (barbarienne?) drawings but they are topless/short of clothes, so you may want to see more later. Regardless, she’s got an awesome knack for shape and form and I love that lettering too.  Look at that emotion, whew!

Lulu Award winning cartoonist Abby Denson kicks off her West Coast tour here in Vancouver this weekend signing copies of her new comic, Dolltopia (preview it here). She’ll be in Portland and San Francisco following this. And in typical Abby-esque style: there will be cupcakes.

Here are the dates and locations for the book tour:

Vancouver:
Oct 31 @ 12pm Halloween event @ Elfsar Comics, 1007 Hamilton St
Nov 1 @ 2pm ECUAD, Emily Carr Theatre (SB 301), 1399 Johnston St, Granville Island

Portland:
Nov 4 @ 6pm In Other Words, 8 B NE Killingsworth St
Nov 5 @ 5pm Floating World Comics, 20 NW 5th Ave

San Francisco:
Nov 6 @ 7PM Dolltopia reading and signing at Modern Times, 888 Valencia St
Nov 7 @ 1PM Dolltopia signing @ A Different Light, 489 Castro St
Nov 7 @ 6-8PM Dolltopia signing @ GRSF, 618 Shrader St
Nov 8 @ 1pm Cartoon Art Museum, 655 Mission St

I repeat: CUPCAKES.

This is great news indeed. Just in time for Halloween, cartoonists Bob Flynn, Chris Houghton, and David Degrand present Heeby Jeeby Comix — bizarre, offbeat, and nonsensical comics for kids (of all ages).

In this 10-minute interview with cartoonist Doug TenNapel talks comics, storytelling, argues ink-vs-digital, and teaches you how to wash your brushes.

(via Kazu Kibuishi on Twitter)

Anthony Clark’s Nedroid Picture Diary remains one of my favourite webcomics comics ever. It is a comic strip about friendship more than anything else, and manages to be adorably sweet without being cloying, and remain consistently hilarious. I just wasted enhanced a good chunk of my day by going through his archives trying to find the best examples to share here. So here’s another:

Matt Sundstrom has created a lovely website that’s a sort-of interactive comic to depict the 8 days and 3,700 miles spent driving from New Hampshire to Oregon.

This is great. What better way for comic artists to celebrate Harvey Pekar’s birthday? Pekar, whose autobio-comics self is famously drawn by different artists throughout his career, is rendered lovingly by over 90 different cartoonists as part of The Pekar Project.

Shown here: two of my faves, Laura Park and Jeffrey Brown.

Since we blogged about Rafael in 2007, he’s been busy making some amazing work. I’m blown away by his bold blacks intermixed with tiny flecks of line for shadowing and highlight, and some amazing details that give this wonderfully tense mood to each drawing. This piece is a pin-up from his upcoming comic FURRY WATER and The Sons Of  The Insurrection, due out from Dark Horse next year. I’m definitely going to have to look for it. You can see much more over at his blog (be sure to check through the archives– there’s some beautiful superhero pinups, including this one of Batman and Robin.)