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What If Podcast Season 2 Episode 1 – A Return to Form

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Gentleman & Scholar Comics presents WIP, a show about comics — consuming them, collecting them, and creating them. James Couture, Turner Huston, and Andrew talk about their comic collections, and pitch each other What If scenarios.

Andrew, Turner and Jim talk Marvel Team Up #2, Spider-Man 2099 #8, and the new Black Knight and Spider-Man: Spider’s Shadows books that are currently out. In addition, Jim pitches a what if involving the Fantastic Four and gamma radiation

Check out gsomics.storenvy.com to support the show!

Lil’ Moments of Obstinance Part Deux

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Over quarantine I’ve been working on a comic about my dog, Lily, for the MICExpo mini-grant contest thingy. It was great to work with my partner on this as a collaboration as she did most of the verbiage and some editorial work and I just told a story through pictures, and test out doing cleanup, grays and tones on the ol’ iPad after I drew everything by hand. Here are some more images as I anticipate printing off the thing for MICExpo or for my own dang self.

Entering contests and these sorts of projects is a fun way to keep motivated as I abstain from cons for the foreseeable future, and the responsible cons abstain from themselves.

Part and parcel with doing comics at home is opening up a storefront to sell off some of the physical media I had ready to go for comic shows. So if you want a mini-comic, or a coffee mug sticker, check out:

http://gscomics.storenvy.com/

Comics For Sale!

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So for some obvious 2020 reasons I’m not going to be doing any comic shows for the foreseeable future. With that in mind I’ve turned to you, the internet, to sell my physical books, as well as coffee mug stickers and a few “Just Like Comics” pins!

Check it out at http://gscomics.storenvy.com/

There’s some print exclusive stuff here, including:

Eight colorful pages of The Indefatigable Punchin’ Bag

Comics about a melancholic Canada goose named Etienne

A limited hand stapled ashcan of something called “Tex Arkana 2020”, made in late 2019 when I thought the only thing weird about 2020 was going to be that it was a two digit number repeating.

Plus a Punchin’ Bag trade if you’re feeling saucy.

 

Angelhair 2020 – Rear Cover

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Yesterday I posted about my digital comic, Angelhair 2020, and how it’s really the embodiment of the cliche that “hindsight is 20/20”, pun intended. That being said, I did work very hard on this rear cover as an homage to one of the very early comic books in my collection as a youth, Spider-Woman #45. It was really fun to recreate color schemes and apply analogues from my “universe” into this cover — that’s why every rear cover I do is an homage, usually to some lesser Marvel cover that’s more important to me than being instantly recognizable.

Angelhair 2020 is available on comiXology: cutt.ly/gscomix

PS: Odd synchronicity that I have such a strong connection with Spider-Woman #45 and Amazing Spider-Man #45

Lil’ Moments of Obstinance

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Over quarantine I’ve been working on a comic about my dog, Lily, for the MICExpo mini-grant contest thingy. It was great to work with my partner on this as a collaboration as she did most of the verbiage and some editorial work and I just told a story through pictures, and test out doing cleanup, grays and tones on the ol’ iPad after I drew everything by hand.

Entering contests and these sorts of projects is a fun way to keep motivated as I abstain from cons for the foreseeable future, and the responsible cons abstain from themselves.

Part and parcel with doing comics at home is opening up a storefront to sell off some of the physical media I had ready to go for comic shows. So if you want a mini-comic, or a coffee mug sticker, check out:

http://gscomics.storenvy.com/

The Punchin’ Bag – 29 thru 34

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I’m trying to be better about posting on theslimjames. Here’s a collage of the Punchin’ Bag I’ve done in the intervening months. I’ve begun to experiment more with layout and technique. In particular, inkwashes for shadows give me a little more control over light and dark.

PS – The Punchin’ Bag’s “home” is on Tumblr.

PPS – The Punchin’ Bag #1 is on comiXology.

The Punchin’ Bag on comiXology

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The Punchin' Bag #1 on comiXology

The canonical cover of PB #1

In addition to print issues for sale at cons, you, my remote reader, can read the first 24 Punchin’ Bag strips on comiXology for a scant $0.99! Check it out here!

Also, sorry I haven’t been posting for 6 months. First I was busy, then I forgot, then I found WordPress wasn’t working on Chrome, so I have to use Bing (ugh) to update. I should be in more of the swing of things going forward, or I’ll forget again. Either way, the world keeps turning.