Marc Davis has been a big influence on me as an artist. It was Marc’s style of pen and ink with watercolor washes that influenced the look of a lot of my work, including my current style of comics starting in BTGC#2. Besides being a talented animator at the Disney Studios (Tinker Bell, Mallifciant,Cruella DeVille), […]

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I recently did this poster for the Cartoon Art Museum for their upcoming Comics for Comix event. BTW It will be held on Feb 10, 2006.

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The Animation studio, A. Film, producing the animated film Asterix and the Vikings has an image of the official poster.

They have created the film with a talented english voice cast (Paul Giamatti (Sideways) as Asterix), even though IT WON’T BE RELEASED IN THE US. Let’s cross our fingers that that changes.
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While doing some research on Google, I found this helpful page(s):from a lecture on Stupid Plotting Tricks By Teresa Nielsen Hayden.

While most story tellers strive to be unique and original, sometimes it’s best to stick with a time tested story element instead of reinventing the wheel. Ms. hayden’s workshop is part of the […]

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Booksteve’s Library is a site about…well everything. As the author, Steven Thompson states in the heading:
A look at books, movies, comics, music, ads and collectibles from my vast and virtual pop culture library.
I was lead there from Cartoon Brew with pictures of Hanna-Barbera Land at Kings Island. I went there on a trip with […]

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From the semi-official Alex Toth website tothfans.com. They post scans of the Mr. Toths work every day on a regular basis. I went to the site today and found that the page of the day was the cover of Hanna-Barbera TV Stars comic with a Super Hero theme. The next page, tomorrows is […]

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It has come to my attention that some of you don’t realise that I have two diffrent blogs. The other one is my Production Log for my comic book sieries Beyond the Great Chimney.
Most of my notes on craft and technique as well as my artwork will be more likely found on the log. […]

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I have been busy working on some graphic design projects, whice has taken some of the time away from BTGC. I am also planning to update the site through out the next two weeks leading up to Wondercon.
In the realms of the continuing adventures of your BTGC friends, I have just about finished the […]

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