Saturday, March 5, 2022

COMICS EXPERIENCE Update: New Classes, New Comics

Wherever you are on the path to making comics, we can help!
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 “March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know.” 
― Emily Dickinson.

Let us help you get all the knowledge you need to make great comics! Join Comics Experience and never face the unknown again. It doesn’t matter if you’re a seasoned pro or just looking to hit the ground running - we have the classesmentors, and forums to help strengthen your marketability and build better projects. Everything you need to accomplish - whatever your goals are - is right here at Comics Experience! Plus, we have on-demand instructional videos to help build up your knowledge and get you creating the comics you have in your heart in no time. Put your love of comics out there and make comics today!

Join professional comic book artist Phillip Sevy in this in-depth study in drawing and constructing the human form from scratch. Learn how the muscles are constructed and drawn so you can create believable dynamic images and poses of your characters. You’ll see examples of how knowledge of the skeleton and muscle groups can be applied to a wide range of drawing such as in comics, animation, and concept design.
Start your year off with intensive comics coursework in 2022 – sign up today!
INTRODUCTION TO LETTERING COMICS – Starts April 11!

Lettering is about more than putting words in balloons. Expert letterer Sean Rinehart will take you through the programs, thought-process, and decision-making stages that create comics with slick, professional lettering that can enhance the comic experience. With experience lettering for Dynamite, Source Point Press, and a slew of independent and creator-owned books, including his own projects, Sean is uniquely qualified to walk you through best practices and instruct you on how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes along with a healthy dose of troubleshooting the most common problems.
A clean, effective, and powerful-looking comic with professional lettering and production work is just around the corner!

This unique course will guide you on your mini-series journey, and give you the skills you need to avoid getting lost along the way. One of our most ambitious courses yet, it takes place in three distinct sections over the course of five months, as you work with experienced comics writer Paul Allor (Hollow Heart, TMNT) through the process of developing, writing and revising an entire three-issue mini-series. Come prepared to work hard and build a complete and compelling story from the foundation up!
Lynching In Shelbyville, a collaborative project between CE Founder, writer and instructor, Andy Schmidt, artist Jinx (above) and the Shelby Community (Kentucky) remembrance Project Coalition (SCRPC) was formally presented to the public through the Sentinel-News on Wednesday February 9. 

Schmidt says “I'm walking out to the bridge where the lynchings depicted in the story took place. It's a little less than a mile from my house. It was the site of more than one lynching and now, over a hundred years later, it's part of a park and there's a really lovely walking path through the woods that goes under it. My wife and kids and I walk our dog underneath it regularly during most of the year, but every time we go under it, I know what took place on it in 1911.”
CE instructor and writer Paul Allor and Creative Services artist Lane Lloyd are part of Young Men in Love: A Queer Romance Anthology, edited by Joe Glass and Matt Miner set to release in July. Read more in Gizmodo’s article by James Whitbrook: “Queer Men Become Superheroes, Pirates and More in this Anthology Young Men In Love

Don't miss out on Scripting Your Mini-Series or OGN with Pro comics writer Paul Allor - starts May 23!
Above: Avalon - Andy Schmidt (writer), Andrea Di Vito (art), Laura Villari (colors) and Sean Rinehart (letters).

Letterers are the unsung heroes of comics and so we’re showing some appreciation for CE’s Lettering instructor Sean Rinehart. Even if we are several months past, we can still celebration Letterers through this Comics Beat article “Letterer Appreciation Day ’21: 17 of Our Favorite Letterers”

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with CE instructor Sean Rinehart’s LIVE Workshop “Lucky Charms of Lettering with Sean O’Rinehart” Thursday March 17 at 9pm ESTFree and open-to-the-public - register in advance for this meeting:
One of the fundamentals of comic art is figure drawing. Andy Schmidt and Joey Groahtalk about how figure drawing is a basic part of comics storytelling, and how learning the fundamentals meld with individual styles from cartoony to realistic. 
Take a deep dive into figure drawing with Introduction to Figure Drawing & Anatomywith Phillip Sevy.
Hell Nebraska - Creators Shaun Manning (Macbeth: The Red King, Star Wars Adventures) and Anna Wieszczyk (Image's Home, Godkiller) explore the temptation to take divine power into human hands as a popular high school teacher and his star pupil wield damnation and forgiveness as weapons. Pre-order today through Diamond or Lunar!
The Macabre Motel – written by CE alum Frank Martin, Alper Geçgel (art), and Sercan Serikaya (colorist) a Twilight Zone-inspired, one-shot, weird horror story that will leave you feeling deeply unsettled long after the final page! Pre-order all three variant covers through Diamond or Lunar today!
Honcho 2 – the giant-sized finale of a 2-volume miniseries written by a pair of Jeffs, Jeff McClelland (The Tick, Planet Comics) and Jeff McComsey (Grendel, Kentucky, The Fourth Man), Honcho combines some good old fashion adventuring in a post-collapse America with it’s still thriving greatest past time. Pre-order today through Diamond, or Lunar!
Past the Last Mountain #4 written by CE instructor Paul Allor with layouts by CE member Gannon Beck and line art & coloring by Louie Joyce. 2 full issues in one – including “Orc Girl” with black & white art by Thomas Boatwright. FOUR variant covers will tempt you to collect them all! Pre-order the first four issues today through Diamond orLunar!
Edgar Allan Poe's The Conqueror Worm was adapted and illustrated by Clara Meath! This drop-dead gorgeous book must be seen to be believed. Pre-order today through Diamond or Lunar!
Get to know the projects and faces behind CEX Publishing writers and creators in live stream interview recordings on the CEX Publishing YouTube channel!
WHAT’S THE BUZZ AT THE WORKSHOP?
Here are a few of the top hot topics posted on the Creators Workshop Forums:
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