Love Love Hill

Self-published comics, zines, and goods at store.lovelovehill.com. We are a loose collective of friends who make comics together! Here, we are sharing past experiences, tips and tricks, and general LLH news. The entries can get very long, good luck! #advice #comic process #event #tutorial

[lovelovehill]

Love Love Hill is going to be at TCAF table 221! It is happening on this coming weekend May 12 & 13 at the Toronto Reference Library! Come check out all the cool comics!

[lovelovehill]

Plant Fever ~zine 2~

Another autobio zine by a group of plant lovers!

Once again, the Plant Fever group share their plantful stories of love, loss, and triumph. Here is another Plant Fever zine filled with their personal experiences with plants and the emotional roller coasters of being a plant parent. Also in this volume are some special stories featuring moms!

ARTISTS:

Wai

Rurupoi

Dirchansky

PowersWithin

Busybea

Namu

Cover illustration and design: PowersWithin

Specs

5.5 x 8.5"

full colour cover

52 pages in colour and b/w

Saddlestitched

You can also get this book at @torontocomics May 12-13, 2018!

[lovelovehill]

COOK AND CRY, Love Love Hill’s 2018 anthology with original comics and illustrations that explore the trials and tribulations associated with cooking. 

Hey, I'm not crying, that's just water steam condensation on my face!! 

ARTISTS

Wai 

Dirchansky 

An Nguyen 

Lis Xu 

SCHEN 

Linda Tea 

Laura Tryon 

Justin Lanjil 

PowersWithin 

Debuting at Love Love Hill’s TCAF table~

@torontocomics May 12-13 2018!

[lovelovehill]

We wish you the best this holiday season :) and hope that you get the chance to relax, rest, and recharge for the new year!

2017 has been one of Love Love Hill's most productive years thus far; together, we released 5+ new zines/comics and had the opportunity to showcase our wares in Canada, USA, UK, and Japan! None of this would have be possible without your continued support! 

Thank you all very much! 

We're always looking for ways to give back and to grow the comics/DIY/zine/self-pub community, so if you have any ideas of things LLH can tackle in the new year (workshop, tutorials, etc.), please leave us an ask, tweet at us, and/or find us on facebook!

Our online store is still open but please note that there may be shipping delays because of the holiday package overload currently in the postal system!

See ya in 2018! Can’t wait for all the pup pics for year of the dog :)

[ourcomicsourselves]

Super Life on the Hill By Love Love Hill

Kendra here! I’ve been making comics together with Kat for seven years. We’re a Washington, D.C.(ish)-based comic team that draws everything from erotic space shenanigans to recipe books inspired by The Rock. You can find our ongoing webcomic Spacejinx and other NSFW comics atMisadventure Central, and you can buy our all-ages stuff at Go Team KK! We’re taking turns to spotlight some comics we like for Our Comics, Ourselves this week.

Super Life On The Hill by Love Love Hill (@lovelovehill - Dirchansky/Wai/Kim) is important to Kat and I for many reasons–the most important being that we only started printing comics and zines after discovering their self-published minis, and were inspired to try out their print/layout tutorials they had been posting online. Love Love Hill is a comic circle with three core members and a rotating lineup of guest artists depending on the work. Super Life on the Hill is a perfect-bound anthology collecting their previous stapled mini-comics about their lives, their friendships, and their struggles with, well, everything! Important topics like: coming across cute things in Japan, needing to get out of a too-comfortable bed, J-pop group Arashi, and the stuffed animal scale of charm; along with strips about dealing with bed bugs and racist coworkers; all collected thanks to an intense long-term friendship that brings the comics together.

The three artists’ styles all provide a lively counterpoint to one another, and especially cool is seeing how each of the members draws the others. The art is shoujo-influenced with sparkles and screentones, but the content and the style is all unique–and with this being an anthology that spans collected comics from 6 years of content, one can see a bit of art evolution from beginning to end. Overall though, since Life On The Hill has been a side-project for the artists, the strips really just get across a down-to-earth feel that really connected with us.

Kat and I find a lot to relate to with the autobio comics here–a love of comics, a love of friendship, a love of nerdy things, and a lifestyle that involves being a single, 20-30something woman is all reflected in the comics in SLOTH. Love Love Hill is having fun with this, which should be the # rule when making comics–why *wouldn’t* you have fun with this?

[lovelovehill]

@figarizzle and @lindateaa are representing Love Love Hill and @torontocomics at SPX this weekend at table M14! Please swing by, ask questions about TCAF, and get some of your favourite comics and zines :).

SMALL PRESS EXPO 2017

The Premiere Event for Indie Comics, Cartooning & Graphic Novels

SEPTEMBER 16 11AM-7PM, SEPTEMBER 17 NOON-6PM

BETHESDA, MARYLAND - MARRIOTT NORTH BETHESDA HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER

[lovelovehill]

Hi everyone, hope you’re all doing well!

Here are some new releases and upcoming events that we’ll be participating in!

August 20 2017, Zine Dream, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

@figarizzle and @dirchansky in attendance, Dirchansky will debut Around the Bend (Summer 2017)!

August 31 - September 3 2017, FanExpo Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

@belugachop and Lis Xu in attendance, Wai will debut Off the Ice (Yuri on Ice fan comics) at table A387!

September 16-17 2017, Small Press Expo (SPX), Bethesda, Maryland, USA

@figarizzle and @lindateaa in attendance

October 13-15, 2017, Lakes International Comic Arts Festival (LICAF), Kendal, United Kingdom

@figarizzle and @dirchansky in attendance; debut title TBA

October 21, 2017, Canzine Toronto, Ontario, Canada

@belugachop in attendance

Otherwise, our online store store.lovelovehill.com is still open!

[lovelovehill]

Thank you all for visiting Love Love Hill crew at TCAF, VanCaf, MCAF, and Anime North this May! We hope you all had a great time and had a chance to pick up work from your favourite artists :). If you picked up any books from us and have any thoughts/comments, please let us know! We’d love to hear from you!

If you missed us at any of the events, the latest zines/comics can be bought online at store.lovelovehill.com or belugachop.tictail.com!!

We’re going to make a mini zine that will *hopefully* be released in Fall 2017... stay tuned!

[lovelovehill]

Expired Seafood: Tied Up

Back in 2010, Love Love Hill first produced a fun and sexy anthology, about the love and lust between older men, called ‘Expired Seafood’. Now it’s time to revisit the magic...

Today's menu includes a selection of aged and spicy seafood! Our chefs have prepared nine saucy, original stories revolving around the love, lust, passion, and relationships of older men—topped with dollops of heavy cream and seasoned with an assortment of bindings.

For mature diners only. If you have come for something a little spicy, then this anthology will be sure to satisfy!

The rating for the anthology is 18+

Features:

Jakface

Dirchansky

Lis

Justin Lanjil

Chrissie Calderon

Laura

Maguro

Linda Tea

Kim Hoang

Cover illustration and design: Justin Lanjil

Love Love Hill's 2017 anthology

5" x 7.75"

red and black risograph cover with gold silkscreen accents

~130 interior pages (risograph)

perfect hand bound

PLEASE NOTE: the cover artwork will be risograph black/red ink and gold silkscreen on top, so please expect slight differences from the electronic preview!

Physical copies will be mailed out May-June 2017, or you can pick it up Love Love Hill's table during TCAF (May 13-14, 2017).

VERY Limited pre-order bonus includes a random wooden pin, designed by Justin Lanjil! (limited to the first 30 orders).

[lovelovehill]

Love Love Hill’s online webstore is finally open again! If you want to preorder any of the new books and get the limited bonus items, now’s your chance!!

http://store.lovelovehill.com

You can also see us LIVE and IN-PERSON at the following events:

May 13-14 2017, Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF)

May 20-21, 2017, Vancouver Comic Arts Festival (VanCAF)

May 26-28, 2017, FBDM/Montreal Comic Arts Festival (MCAF)

October 13-15, 2017, Lakes International Comic Arts Festival (LICAF)

[torontocomics]

Debuting at TCAF 2017 Martial Spirit by Dirchansky, Wai Au, Kage

Self Published (available via Love Love Hill) 5 x 7.75" 40 pages Risograph red interiors, on natural stock Silkscreen cover $10.00

Original comics/illustrations inspired by wuxia, chinese martial art heroes!

[lovelovehill]

Cover is silkscreened by @belugachop and collated and thread-stitch-bound by dirchansky...!

Limited print run of 100 🔥come get it at TCAF 2017 (Toronto), VanCaf 2017 (Vancouver), and/or FBDM/MCAF (Montreal)

[torontocomics]

Debuting at TCAF 2017 - Super Life on the Hill (SLOTH) by Dirchansky, Wai Au, Kim Hoang

Since 2011, Dirchansky, Wai, and Kim have been drawing unfiltered autobio comics and making them available in copybon/zine format. This SUPER edition compiles Life on the Hill 1-5 mini zines, plus brand new pages of comics and previously unprinted content! Silly but real autobio comics by 3 core members of Love Love Hill.

Self Published (available via Love Love Hill) 5.5" x 8.5" 210 pages B/W interiors Hot pink cover $20.00

[lovelovehill]

Super limited online pre-order bonus coming soon!!

Otherwise come get the book at @torontocomics (May 13-14 2017) at Love Love Hill’s table~

[powerswithin]

So excited to announce the first volume of the Plant Fever Zine: An autobio zine by a group of plant lovers! Debuting at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2017!  This zine contains a collection of short stories about our experiences with plants. We truly have Plant Fever…

Plant Fever Zine Vol 1 Color + B&W 44 pages cover to cover Contributors: @rurupoi @powerswithin @dirchansky @belugachop

We will also have Plant Fever merch… but more on that later hehe.

[lovelovehill]

Will be at the @lovelovehill table during @torontocomics May 13-14 2017!

[lovelovehill]

Hello. I'm curious one where you guys print your zine like Human Plantation? I've been searching for good (inexpensive or just right price) printing companies that do perfect binding. All the ones I found online are damn expensive and CDN to USD conversion plus shipping is ridiculous. I'm currently running my own fandom zine and a personal one. Anything would be appreciated, thank you and have a good day!

Hi! We printed Human Plantation at a local print shop in Montreal. If you click under the “links” on our tumblr, you’ll find a list of printers, albeit a bit outdated.

What you can do is shop around the print shops in your own city, go in and ask them for samples, quotes and compare prices.

-Wai

[stilleatingoranges]

The significance of plot without conflict

In the West, plot is commonly thought to revolve around conflict: a confrontation between two or more elements, in which one ultimately dominates the other. The standard three- and five-act plot structures–which permeate Western media–have conflict written into their very foundations. A “problem” appears near the end of the first act; and, in the second act, the conflict generated by this problem takes center stage. Conflict is used to create reader involvement even by many post-modern writers, whose work otherwise defies traditional structure.

The necessity of conflict is preached as a kind of dogma by contemporary writers’ workshops and Internet “guides” to writing. A plot without conflict is considered dull; some even go so far as to call it impossible. This has influenced not only fiction, but writing in general–arguably even philosophy. Yet, is there any truth to this belief? Does plot necessarily hinge on conflict? No. Such claims are a product of the West’s insularity. For countless centuries, Chinese and Japanese writers have used a plot structure that does not have conflict “built in”, so to speak. Rather, it relies on exposition and contrast to generate interest. This structure is known as kishōtenketsu.

Keep reading

[melgillman]

Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies for Cartoonists!

Hey comic-makers!  Looking for funding or short/long term studio space to help you make your comics?  I put together a list of grants, fellowships, and residencies with an established, positive track record for accepting cartoonists!  (There are also many, many arts grants/etc. out there that have not accepted any cartoonists yet, and I absolutely encourage you to apply for those too!  But I’ll be limiting this list to ones that already have demonstrated interest in comics.)

I’m sure there are ones I’m missing, so feel free to drop me a line if you know one I should add!  I’ll keep updating the list periodically :)

GRANTS

Creators for Creators

Cupcake Award

The Dash

Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities  

PRISM Queer Press Grant

Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize

Society of Illustrators M Prize  

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence

Catskill Center Artist in Residence

Comic Art Workshop

Donaldson Writer-in-Residence

Inbound and Outbound TRANSIT

Maison des Auteurs  

Sitka Artist Residency

Thurber House Graphic Novel Residency

Tulsa Artist Fellowship  

US National Parks Residencies  

[saoirse-a-k]

Human Plantation, Love Love Hill [purchase here]

Plant-themed femme body horror short comics anthology from Toronto based manga collective Love Love Hill. As you may know, femme body horror comics are VERY much my wheelhouse, so when I saw this at TCAF I obviously had to pick it up. I like that each piece had kind of an artist’s statement at the end talking about the approach they took to the assigned theme. Nice to see some people who had never or rarely done horror comics taking a shot at my favourite genre!

Highlights: “Rhododendron” by Linda Tea, “Housebound” by Laura Tryon and “Voice” by Powerswithin.

[powerswithin]

Ahh thank you so much for picking up a copy! Glad you enjoyed it :D