Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I just snagged me the latest minicomic from Chris “Elio” Eliopoulos, Milky Way Shuffle. Elio consistently impresses me with his supercharged kid-friendly comics. His style is wholly distinct, and everything he does seems to explode with joy and pure fun. It’s no wonder you also see his work on Yo Gabba Gabba and Nick Jr.

Rhode Montijo has posted his beautiful minicomic, T-t-tartamudo, online for free.

Previously:
Rhode Montijo’s Studio
Cloud Boy, Oh Boy

Joe Lambert has posted some tips on a clever binding technique he used to put together one of the books in his Sundays 3 minicomic, an anthology edited and designed by himself, Alex Kim, Chuck Forsman, & Sean Ford.

Joe also posted this little video on Flickr showing how the books are packaged together:

Previously: Joe Lambert’s sketchbooks

Last week at Canzine I had the pleasure of snagging a copy of Jesse Jacobs’s minicomic Small Victories and was thereby introduced to his work, which I hadn’t seen before. I immediately fell in love with his cartooning upon opening it. Delicate linework and playful drawing are sandwiched between a silkscreened cover, and inside you’ll find a series of loosely-related comics dealing with Jesse’s views on religion, the Canadian identity, and childhood memories, all threaded through the adventures of escaped circus animals. I can’t wait to read more of his work.

It’s called, Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream, and it’s for sale through her Flickr account.

Three bucks. 24 pages. I haven’t seen it yet, but if you’re like me, you’ve spent a lot of time browsing through her Flickr gallery and you know it’ll be awesome.

Photo courtesy of Chris Pitzer.

SEE! Dean Trippe’s website!
ENJOY! Dean Trippe’s weekly comic about a sidekick’s sidekick: “Butterfly.”
READ! An interview with Dean at Newsarama!
WATCH! Me stare adoringly at his work. (Use your imagination)

But there’s more! Dean’s got a few minicomics to read on his site too, and some sweet desktop wallpapers. He also contributes to these great projects:
Wake, a weekly strip at Act-i-vate; Project Rooftop. a site devoted to superhero fashion (where you will find fabulous art by even MORE artists, and which has SO been added to my feeds); and Mainstream Art, a “positive mainstream comics newsblog.”

Dean: Stop working so hard! You’re making us all look bad… Pace yourself. Draw something that looks crappy now and then, will ya?