Tatiana Gill on Facebook

August 19th, 2010

Hey if you’re on Facebook and you want to be my fan, “like” me, or just see more comix, my artist page is here. I’ve posted a bunch of my old comics and illo work on there too.

 

Intergrating Typography

July 10th, 2010

marc ruygrok: typographic sculptures

Rad Cartoon Find: Three Word Phrase

July 10th, 2010

I’m pretty sure this guy lives near Kate Beaton and hangs out with her a lot. I love him and his rad cartoons haha. What joy!

Lots of strips: http://threewordphrase.com/

Ryan’s Website! http://www.ryanpequin.com/

Ryan’s Twitter! http://twitter.com/ryanpequin

Ryan’s Lj! http://ryanpeq.livejournal.com/

Amazing Comic by Steven Weissman

June 9th, 2010

http://whatthingsdo.com/comic/this-already-happened-10/

Yes Another iPad Post!

April 5th, 2010

Oh no not another iPad Post, you say, to which I reply, yes, this news is too great to respect my self imposed ban on iPad.

 I saw one this morning and it’s one of the greatest comic platforms I’ve ever seen. Super sharpest full resolution blast in your face color are you kidding me? BOOM! I am so excited to make iPad comics, and I hope you will too. Lets show these mainstreamers how it’s DONE, indy comickers! Raise your pens and lets go Scott McCloud on their assets!

CCS Visiting Artist Blog

March 19th, 2010
Hello, friends of comics, Each year The Center for Cartoon Studies invites world-renowned cartoonists into our classroom.  Since September of 2009, I’ve been writing a weekly blog about these visiting artists (including  Seth, Alison Bechdel, John Porcellino, R. Sikoryak and Charles Burns, just to name a few).

I welcome you to visit the CCS Visiting Artist Blog at:
http://ccsvisitingfaculty.wordpress.com/

It is my goal to chronicle this vital aspect of the CCS experience.  I also want to provide valuable and informative content for comic enthusiasts everywhere.

I hope you enjoy the blog!  I recommend you start by reading about our recent visitor, Charles Burns, and his thoughts on Tintin, book deign and inking.
http://ccsvisitingfaculty.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/charles-burns-on-herge-book-design-and-inking/

Sincerely,
 
Robyn Chapman
CCS Program Coordinator
 
Exploring the medium’s past, present, and potential

The Center for Cartoon Studies
P.O. Box 125
White River Junction, VT  05001
 
WEB: www.cartoonstudies.org

On Knitting and Delayed Gratification

March 4th, 2010

Yesterday on the bus to work, I overheard a conversation between a young lady (maybe 20ish, with punk style) and two much older women. The young one asked the difference between knitting and crocheting, which one had two needles, which one had one. An older woman replied that knitting uses two needles while crocheting uses a hook. The young woman then objected to the very concept, who can just sit there for hours? Who has that kind of patience? The old ladies smiled. Then the girl contemplated how she plays guitar, which takes hours of patience, but at least she gets instant gratification of hearing her song right away. Then it was her stop and she left.

That started me thinking about the instant gratification of knitting. The soothing repetition and patterns. The feeling of nice wool running past my fingers. The feeling I’m a part of something greater than myself, a herstorical loom of skill that’s been woven for hundreds or thousands of years.

And then beyond, is appreciating the gratification that I did not learn to enjoy as a young person, but only in my 30s have I even begun to appreciate. The amazing feeling of creating something that DOES take time, that does take skill and discipline and patience, is so much more infinitely gratifiying than something you can make on the spot with little effort.

Yes, I like getting older. I’m looking forward to my 40s and we’ll talk then about my 50s ;)

The Inside and Outside Pin-Ups of Molly Kiely

March 3rd, 2010

Molly Kiely was the first all-empowering, all sex-positive, cartoonist I read, and considering I worked for an erotic comics retailer, I’ve read THEM. ALL. Molly Kiely stands alone as her own awesome stake in the world of Comics, Feminism, Porn, Erotica, Black and White Art, and Sex Positive Empowerment.

 She blew my mind with “Diary of a Dominatrix” and “That Kind of Girl” in the 90s and early 00s. Now I’ve found her on flickr, doing gorgeous pin ups and photography of the gorgeous Molly Kiely in the flesh!

SWOON.

pitstop by mollykiely.

http://www.mollykiely.com/

365 Days of Being 40 on Flickr (Pix and Modelling by Molly)

Cover to the book that changed my sexual insides, “That Kind of Girl”

front cover, TKoG by mollykiely.

The Wonderous Glory of Kate Beaton

February 18th, 2010

Hark! Kate Beaton is the funniest cartoonist alive today!

 http://beatonna.livejournal.com/

Amazing Old Ad

February 2nd, 2010

I don’t think cartoons are allowed to do Sex Ed these days. Correct me if I’m wrong!

Swiped from http://themightyadam.com/