#alec longstreth

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Alec Longstreth, Exposition Indies Americans, Quai des bulles, 2019.

[isleofelsi]

Mala and Prop found something mysterious in the woods!

There is ONE WEEK left in the Isle of Elsi Kickstarter! Thanks in advance for checking it out and spreading the word!

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Animation for Cartoonists!

Hello! I am a cartoonist who is teaching an animation workshop this summer at @cartoonstudies July 9-13

Because of my background, I will be paying special attention throughout the workshop to the various ways that the comics and animation mediums overlap!

I have found that there are many animation techniques that can be applied to your cartooning process to make it more efficient (and vice versa!).  

We will be looking at the work of cartoonists who worked in animation, and animators who drew comics!

Folks like Jeff Smith, who started an animation studio with two of his friends after college, creating 2D and stop motion animation, before launching his beloved comic book series Bone.

Or my comics hero, Carl Barks, who worked as an inbetweener and storyboard artist at Disney from ’35-’42 before beginning a 25-year career as one of the most popular and prolific American cartoonists.

We’ll also look at the work of Hayao Miyazaki who moved back and forth between anime and manga, serializing his Nausicaä story to build enough interest for it to eventually be turned into an animated feature.

There are only five weeks left to register for the class! It is open to students 16+ and there are need-based scholarships available.  CCS alumni can take the course for 50% off (email me for the code, or check the CCS message board).

It's gonna be so much fun! Come hang out with me for a week in Vermont this summer and draw and learn and draw and learn and draw and draw and draw!

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Milwaukee Portfolio Day • Sunday, March 12th 6-8pm

Roast Coffee Co. • 2132 E. Locust St. • Milwaukee, WI 53211

Join cartoonist Alec Longstreth (Phase 7, Basewood) for comics talk over coffee at The Center for Cartoon Studies’ Milwaukee Portfolio Day! Bring your portfolio or sketchbook for a review, enjoy some complimentary java from Roast Coffee Co, and learn all about the MFA and Certificate programs at CCS, while drinking some coffee! Did we mention there will be coffee, and that it’s free?

Space is limited! Register now!

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Guest Teachers Galore

So here’s a thing I didn’t do all of last semester, which I really should have: named our guest teachers and sung their praises. Because The Animation Workshop, my school, really knows how to find the good ones!

Here’s my third semester teachers and what they taught (with links to their own websites and my appropriate tags):

Lauren Weinstein - Comics Without Fear Alec Longstreth - Color Alexis Deacon - Illustration Dave McCaig - Color Mårdøn Smet - Style Exercises (Tove Jansson and Brecht Evens) Sara Ryan - Dialogue and Captions Kyle Baker - Acting in Comics Martin Rauff - Worldbuilding (specifically the making of Magic Mishaps) Farel Dalrymple - Visualizing Your World Dan Mazur - Comics History Needless to say, it has been an incredibly giving semester and I am so lucky and grateful to be where I am. Here’s to the fourth! - Q

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🔥 WE DID IT! 🔥

Tonight the Isle of Elsi Book One Kickstarter reached 100% of its funding goal!

Thanks to everyone who backed the project, or helped spread the word this month! I couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you.

An extra-special thanks to @redgoldsparks for all the mentions here on Tumblr!! Please show em some support and preorder eir book Gender Queer which comes out May 2019 from Lion Forge!!

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The Isle of Elsi Book One Kickstarter is almost 50% funded! If you like fantasy adventure comics, check it out and please help me spread the word!  THANKS!

[isleofelsi]

The Isle of Elsi Book One Kickstarter is now LIVE!

I am currently crowdfunding a 144-page hardback collection of Isle of Elsi!

If you like lighthearted fantasy adventure comics, then this is the project for you! It’s got dragons, wizards, talking wolves and lots of silly wordplay.  Check it out and spread the word, thanks!