Show Notes: This episode is our 1 year anniversary show, and man what a strange trip and unusual year the first season has been- pandemic, snowpocalypse, layoffs, new job at Area 51, new equipment, learning curves, and lots of comic conversations! For the first episode of our second season I share some MSCA member news, what art projects I’ve been working on recently (RRParks Cards Halloween sketchcards and Grogu/”Baby Yoda” sketchcover), some of the podcasts I listen to, and my thoughts on self-publishing and some of the comics industry publisher news I’ve heard about on the interwebs. Continue reading
Category: News
Of Monkeys And MONSTERS!
From MSCA member and “The Good, The Bad, and the Sketchy” editor/publisher, Dale Martin…
Greetings, comic readers & art fans! I hope your fall (or your “autumn”, as the case may be) has gotten off to a good start! And not as busy as the start of mine… Continue reading
New Drawing Funny Episode- “Play It Forward”
New “Drawing Funny” podcast episode is available to listen to.
This episode is about “paying it forward” and some of the posts I recently ran across in the “I CREATE COMIC BOOKS” Facebook group and my responses to them. I’ve gotten a lot of help from others over the years, and I hope that this podcast helps anyone wanting to learn more about creating comics, and the business of promoting them. I mention some of the folks who helped me out along my art journey and touch on some of my art-anxiety, drawing-depression, professional-jealousy, and impostor-syndrome experiences. Continue reading
Back To Virtual Until 2022
Hey, gang-
I have a quick few bits of MSCA news for you. First up is some meeting updates from our Prez Kevin L. Williams…
Hi, all-
With the latest details on Covid-19/Delta Variant from the Shelby County Health Department, I am going to cancel further in-person gatherings until January 2022. We will still gather digitally (via Z00m). Continue reading
News On New “Drawing Funny” Podcast News Episode
Hey, gang-
We’ve got a new news episode of “Drawing Funny“- Episode 27 – “MSCA News Update”. Continue reading
$upport You Local Cartoonist$
Our own Greg Cravens has a Patreon for his webcomic “Hubris”. Patreon levels begin at $1 a month! Continue reading
National News- NCSFEST & Reuben Awards
From Greg Cravens (MSCA member and NCS Membership Chairman) and the National Cartoonists Society: SECNCS Annual Meeting Reminders…
Don’t forget the Annual Meeting, being held in Salisbury, NC on Saturday, August 28, 2021!
We’ll be gathering during the day on Friday, and head out for an informal dinner that night. Saturday morning, we’ll have our business meeting at 11:00am at the Waterworks Arts Center. All NCS members and SECNCS members are welcome to attend (I know you folks are in a gray area regarding membership right now, but we’ve extended memberships until things are settled with the NCS.)
Three Amigos- Our Latest In Person Monthly Meeting
Hey, gang-
Well, this last Tuesday was the 1st Tuesday of the month which means it was time for our monthly MSCA meet-up. The weather was amazing- especially for the first week of August in Memphis! Kevin Williams, Greg Cravens, and I (MSCA current prez and former presidents) met up in a shaded area of Overton Park. We had a fun time talkin’ toons and swapping freelance war stories. Continue reading
Drawn Together- Next MSCA Meeting In Person
It’s finally happening!
Only one week until our first in-person monthly MSCA meeting– in over a year and a half! Continue reading
Playing Doctor With Writer John Ostrander
There’s a new episode of the “Drawing Funny” podcast available – Episode 26: “John Ostrander”.
This episode, Nicki Workman and I (Lin) sit down for a comics conversation with the legendary writer (and actor) John Ostrander. Continue reading