Brian Kolm
Author's posts
Dec 10
TMBG "Bastard" video
Just posted today at TMBG.com is a new music video from the Venue album. It features some fantastic 2D drawn animation. From the newsletter: This week’s new streaming video is one of the excellent bonus tracks off of the Venue Songs DVD – Bastard Wants to Hit Me with visuals from Laika House. Laika is …
Dec 06
Update 12-6-05
After an exciting weekend of teaching and learning, I spent last night taking the 55 rough pages and scanning them in. They where then placed in InDesign in the right order. It’s amazing how much you catch your errors when you “read it out loud.” Just like catching a spelling or grammatical error when reading …
Dec 06
Drawings of Me
I went out to dinner with friends on Sunday. While we were waiting for our sushi, TJ Basa spent the time sketching me. Here is the first drawing; it looks just like me: This one is very cool; it is drawn on a napkin with a chopstick with the end burned by the candle on …
Dec 05
A link from Planet Lar
Larry Young was nice enough to link to me today from his site: AIT/Plantet Lar, based on my comments to the talk he was part of at the Cartoon Art Museum (last Thursday). Here is the post he is refer too. Thanks Mr. Young. I can’t express enough how helpful you book, TRUE FACTS, has …
Dec 04
Marvel Rubber Stamps
Here are some images of a Rubber Stamp set featuring the Marvel Superheroes. front back NOTE: Images of the stamps are coming soon. The characters depicted are the same as the drawings used on the inside of the box, including Spiderman, Thor, Mr. Fantastic, Hulk, Spiderwoman etc. tags: marvel/superheroes/rubber stamp/stamp
Dec 04
Happy Birthday
This weekend I had two great experiences. I taught cartooning classes at two birthday parties at the Cartoon Art Museum. Both parties were fun and I hope the guests had a great time. Here is a sketch I did in prep for one of the class: I am available to teach art/cartooning at all types …
Dec 04
NC-NCS Christmas Party
On Saturday night I attended the NC-NCS (National Cartoonist Society) Christmas Party. It was an intimate event hosted by Michael and Nichole Jantze (Mike draws the now-online strip, the NORM). The food was excellent and I had a really good time. Here are some photos from the event: There where English style party crackers (not …
Dec 03
Creative Creators Energy
On Thursday night the Cartoon Art Museum hosted the Creators Meeting that featured a panel on marketing comics. It even had Larry Young who wrote TRUE FACTS. The theme this time around is Marketing, Self-Promotion and Distribution. Writing and drawing your own comic is only one small part in making a name for yourself in …
