Unlimited Wonder Comics

Home to the art and process of G.R. Lear

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Stop by the first Springwood Art in the Park this Saturday from 12 to 3 and take part in a free comics zine making activity with me. 

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My first Graphic Novel is being published in October 2023 by Read Furiously. A story about the things we hold on to and what happens when we let go of them.

You can learn more and preorder it here:  www.readfuriously.com/cursed

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December’s pick for the Graphic Novel book club and the next three months choices.

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Here is my summer workshop schedule. Please check with the library concerning registrtaion.

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This is a short video I put together this summer where I talk about my process of comic making.

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September - November 2020

I started a weekly virtual drawing class in September to help my friends and their kids through the fall of this pandemic. For October, I took word suggestions from them and made a daily drawing prompt list. Here is a sampling of my daily direct drawings on 3x5 cards with ink wash.

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August 2020

I was invited to be the visiting artist for a week of the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Summer Art Camp. I worked with the campers all week long in developing drawing and comic skills, culminating in a comic book that we collaborated on together.  Here are the pages from the comic that they each took home. Thank you to the LBIF, all of the summer camp staff, and the campers for a great week!

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July 2020

As part of the long Beach Island Foundation’s ComX art exhibition, the artists were invited to submit artwork for a free coloring book. Here are my pages that tell the story “Little Help”.

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I will be making a presentation over zoom as part of the Long Beach Island Foundation’s ComX art exhibition on comics. Sign-up to be part of this free event here:

http://lbifoundation.org/events/comx-exhibition-artist-meet-greet-qa-7-27-2/

Also presenting their process at the event: @thinkillustration @keops73​ @mattjbatt Yao Xing and Mark Rice.

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I’ll be a part of today’s live zoom call at 3 pm for the LBI Foundation’s art exhibit “ComX” and their artist’s talk session. Sign up here to attend:

https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eh7x1pkadf083a20&oseq=&c=&ch=

The free exhibit is open now until August 16 in LBI, NJ where you can see five pieces of my work.

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I’m a fan of @grissom and @philsloan comic book series “Deadhorse”, so while we wait for the next chapter of their series, I decided to make a comic telling an unofficial backstory of their character KeNT.

Check out their book here: deadhorsecomic.com

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My dragon comic I self-published in Unlimited Wonder Comics #2.

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My digital painting for this year’s holiday card.

Made with procreate on an ipad mini.

I hope every one is building warm and happy memories this holiday season! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa!

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This is the animated movie that I made with the special needs campers of Camp Fatima of NJ at summer camp this past August. I drew 100+ panels and then printed them out for the kids to color. I scanned and assembled the colored frames into the animation using Stop Motion Studio. We then have a Movie Premier activity where the campers take a short limo ride to a red carpet experience of adoring fans before seeing this animated short and another movie we made with them during the week! It’s an amazing moment getting to hear the applause and excitement as they see themselves and their work up on the big screen!

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Here is the one page comic from Magic Bullet No. 18. 

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“Beach Day”

I finished my linocut comic at the end of August. Nine panels carved from linoleum and then printed for a one page comic. I’d learned about the wordless novels of Masereel from Jason Lutz’s “Berlin” graphic novel. in the early 1900′s, Masereel told stories using wordless wood block illustrations. The linocut workshop I took earlier this summer introduced me to the carving and printing technique so I wanted to see what it would be like to make a one page comic. It took a great amount of time and work but was interesting to learn a new technique and see the project through. 

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I took a lino/woodblock cutting and printmaking class last week at Arts Unbound in Orange NJ with instructor Krystle Lemonias. I had gotten inspired by Frans Masereel and his wordless novels from the early 1900′s and wanted to experience how he went about making his images.  It was my first time and only a two hour workshop but Krystle was great at getting me setup to carve and print within that time period.