Archaia Entertainment has announced the hiring of Mike Kennedy to their publisher position, where he’ll work on the growing comics company’s production and marketing and report to the company’s CEO. Kennedy has roots in comics and in the videogame industry. The linked-to article at the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com suggests that the move is related to the round of investment the company received in March. This makes a certain amount of sense as the announced goals for that money were to build digital and overall branding, which seems like something Kennedy could help them do. Archaia specializes in idiosyncratic adventure series such as Artesia and European imports The Killer and The Secret History, and has spent the last few years building up a market presence through an aggressive comics-to-trade release schedule and something of an across-the-line publication design.
Do you like your history lessons straight-no-chaser?
How about the fascinating story of comic artist god Jack Kirby fighting Marvel Comics to give him back his original artwork?
Former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter is taken to task in The Comics Journal for his blog posts recounting this historical event.
Gary Groth, TCJ Editor-in-Chief, guides us through the truth, half-truths and BS and gives us some insight into the art of comics, the business of comics and the people who veer in and out of those orbits.
WADE
TAGS: The Comics Journal, Jack Kirby, Marvel Comics, Jim Shooter, Gary Groth, lawsuit, legal action, comic books, artist
So you just bought a guitar. Now what? This is the fifth installment in my series of guitar lessons to get you from beginner to virtuoso as quickly as humanly possible. Im going to show you some two basic Barre Chords and how to use them. Learn, practice, play. Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
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Alright, so I will be explaining how I learned how to take a major scale [a minor scale in my next lesson] and to use that scale to produce a chord progression. And it only takes a little knowledge of scales, and a couple words to memorize. And afterwords hopefully you’ll be able to, on the spot, produce chord progressions from a scale. Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
That’s where he reads the books, listens to the audio products, watches the videos for getting ahead in business and marketing, then he takes notes and publishes them — so you don’t have to do all the hard work!
Take a look at his “Free Notes On Dan Kennedy’s 8 Big Ideas Seminar” and see if you don’t fall in love, too. I mean, I’m an inhabitant of Planet Dan and have spent mucho dinero over the past few years going to his seminars, buying his books, etc.
Lewis — I’m nominating you for a Nobel or a Pulitzer or whatever you are eligible for.
WADE
TAGS: marketing, business, direct response, Lewis LaLanne, Nerd #2, Dan Kennedy, seminars
Doodles is one of those comic characters little known (and mostly forgotten) by the general public. But this 1950s character is beloved by a devoted cult.
Gabriel Corbera over at Joyville is one of those afficianados, and he’s got a good selection of scanned pages for you to enjoy.
The comic was created to capitalize on the popularity of POGO (and creator Walt Kelly). And while Doodles has some endearing charms, he’s no Pogo.
When I decided to teach myself drawing, my first question was, “how will I know if the drawing is good?”
The answer I arrived at was, if it was a good likeness.
I really wasn’t interested in Norman Rockwell-style art. I loved comics and caricatures (I was raised on MAD Magazine). So I started doing celebrities and knew that I had a good drawing when anybody (even me) could tell who was pictured.
Disney characters are universally known and fun to draw. If you’re interested in sharpening your sketching skills, here is a basic tutorial on step-by-step drawing of Minnie Mouse.
