Format Fever

Here's a list of formats available to the comic book maker in 2011/2012

The template numbers on the following list are for templates used in my Correspondence Course.

Next course begins late February / early March 2012. Please email me capneasyATgmailDOTcom for information.


1. comic book
2. mome / new love and rockets
3. french bd album
4. manga
5. trade paperback - think chester brown collections
6. american magazine size
7. standard digest zine
8. magazine ratio digest zine
9. mini-comic
10. tabloid
11. no format - web format - 920 dpi wide scroll - whatthingsdo / ny times ratio
12. movie screen

**The "no format" of webcomics is it's own subject. I am forefronting the WhatThingsDo aesthetic because it jibes closely with the current wide screen tv screen / movie screen aesthetic. I understand that most webcomics are thinner and incorporate headings, sidebars, etc - in that case one would "find the square" and create a system of periodicity for the scroll.
























FORMAT FEVER

1. comic book
2. mome / new love and rockets
3. french bd album
4. manga
5. trade paperback - think chester brown collections
6. american magazine size
7. standard digest zine
8. magazine ratio digest zine
9. mini-comic
10. tabloid
11. no format - web format - 920 dpi wide scroll - whatthingsdo / ny times ratio
12. movie screen

**The "no format" of webcomics is it's own subject. I am forefronting the WhatThingsDo aesthetic because it jibes closely with the current wide screedn tv screen / movie screen aesthetic. I understand that most webcomics are thinner and incorporate headings, sidebars, etc -

Santoro Correspondence Course

My correspondence course for comic book makers is going very, very well. I am happy. I am thinking about offering it again beginning March 1st 2012. Please pass this post around to anyone you may know who might want to take the course.

Right now - we are in Week 5 of an eight week course. I thought this post reflects the thorough approach we are taking in this course. Please enjoy.

Questions about the course? Please email me: capneasyATgmailDOTcom

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SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE - Lesson example

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TINTIN HOMEWORK - WEEK 5 / EXERCISE 1






PRINT OUT THE TINTIN PAGE

TRACE THE GRID MAP PROVIDED HERE ON TRACING PAPER OVER THE TINTIN PAGE - use colored pencils

TRACE THE FIGURES and OTHER ELEMENTS LIKE I HAVE DEMO'D HERE

TRY AND KEEP IT TOGETHER IF YOU LOSE YOUR MIND

LISTEN TO MY AUDIO DESCRIBING WHAT IS HAPPENING - WHAT HERGE IS DOING

Storeyville discovery

I found the last box of Storeyville at my dad's house.

Correspondence Course

I'm starting a cartooning correspondence course.
Check it out at The Comics Journal.

update

FOR THOSE who liked this blog:

i'm putting drawings up here. and here.

and i've been writing a column at the Comics Journal.

also, i'm starting a mail order only zine. those interested should email me their physical real world mailing address to capneasyATgmailDOTcom

Closing

I thought that going to L.A. and having a show would be a good occasion to make the switch over to a new regime. Don't miss the next thrilling episode of Frank Santoro.

Opening

Frank Santoro: New Values
Thursday, January 20 th – Friday, February 18th , 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20th, from 7 to 10pm
7914b SANTA MONICA BLVD around back - west of FAIRFAX
WEST HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA 90046
...
Dem Passwords is pleased to present a show of new work by Frank Santoro. For his first solo outing in Los Angeles, Santoro will exhibit a series of drawings rooted in Greco-Roman mythology. Lining the walls of the gallery, on uniform sheets of 25 x 38 inch gold-colored parchment paper, is a gathering of ideas and intimations that Santoro has been honing over the past several years.

These drawings evidence Santoro’s fascination with both the swift gesture of a spray painted graffiti tag and the virtuosic line work of renaissance drawing. These marks and textures are employed to summon figures that embody the violence, eroticism and grandiosity of classical mythology. In working in this vein, Santoro is participating in an artistic dialogue across the centuries. If you create an image of Mars, he wants to say, then you are both speaking to War and talking about war, the latter in concert with hundreds if not thousands of other artists. This web of connections gives the work, as Santoro has put it, “instant content – the figures are multi-dimensional signifiers.”

And to preserve their symbolic value, Santoro is careful to make images that allude to— but never indulge in—narrative. Instead he likens them to the frescos discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum: charged, often erotic, images of Venus, Hecate, and other gods that underpinned and explained Roman daily life. Those frescos, and the work presently on display, are unprecious exaltations to the forms and ideas that move us.

Frank Santoro has previously exhibited in New York and Switzerland. He has published comics and zines including Incanto, Chimera and Cold Heat. He is also the author of the graphic novel Storeyville (PictureBox). Currently at work on an animated film and a new picture narrative, Santoro lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA.

- Dan Nadel
writer / Picturebox publisher

For further inquiries contact Sebastian Demian at
info@dempasswords.com or at +1.772.202.2733

New Values

PGH PA 19