October 21, 2008
I have a comic coming out from Oni in January:
TRUE TALES OF THE ROLLER DERBY: DOPPELGANGER AT THE HANGAR
Written by: Lisa Titan and Nader Absood
Illustrated by: Dennis Culver
Colors by: Pamela Rambo
32 pages, standard, full color interiors
$4.99
Goodie Two-Skates is missing! And who are these new skaters–the freakishly perfect freshies that have suddenly shown up? The Wheels of Justice have to find Goodie and get to the bottom of this mystery before Nationals, or the Icy Blonde will succeed in corrupting the team forever!
September 8, 2008
Long time no blog.
I would probably update more if I didn’t need to sleep and blogging didn’t feel like doing chores. Anyway here are a few awesome things happening in Culver’s bullpen:
ITEM: My Vegan Zombie shirt was unable to penetrate the arcane selection process at Threadless despite the boing boing bump. So I made it available for sale here.
ITEM: The family that plays Dungeons and Dragons together totally buys T-shirts that I made together
Buy the shirt here.
ITEM: Speaking of Dungeons & Dragons, I am playing again for the first time since I was like 19. The circle of Nerd is complete. I made a drawing of my character at my sketchjournal.
ITEM: I’m working on a comic for the local roller derby league and it’s going to be published by Oni. Not sure if it will be distributed beyond Portland at this point but when I know more so will you!
ITEM: If you’re planning on participating in this year’s election, now’s the time to register to vote if you haven’t.
ITEM: Thriller is still a good album.
ITEM: I’ve been tutoring in cartooning for Picasso Home Art School. My student is a 16yo interested in Manga. We’ve been focusing on lessons in general drawing and storytelling. Tutoring has really helped me organize my own ideas about art and I plan to share some of that here soon.
ITEM: We’ve been gardening! And by “we” I mostly mean Wendy but I do help sometimes. We’ve been growing tomatoes, pumpkins, sage, and mint. I am amazed that we have somehow coaxed life from the earth but I’m also suprised I’ve managed to keep animals alive for so long. ALL GROWNS UP!
July 15, 2008
For the three people that read this and not my lj.
March 31, 2008
The first eight pages of my new comic Buckshot has been featured on Myspace Comics today.
Check it out here and let me know what you think.
March 3, 2008
In Marvel Comics there is a group of bad guys called the Circus of Crime. It’s basically a Circus with a ringmaster that can hypnotize people, a strong guy that is strong, a snake lady that controls snakes, and a clown that looks like pedophile(pretty much your standard clown) Somehow they run a successful circus in and around New York City and they rob their patrons. Here is a miscolored picture of them:
There is a trend in comics for opposite versions of the hero or groups like the Fantastic Four has the Frightful Four and the Justice League has the INjustice Gang so I figure the same should follow for the Circus of Crime. Except my opposite number for the CoC would be a little more modern and uh more french.
The Cirque de Justice!
They will bore the crime right out of you!
February 29, 2008
Here’s a movie idea:
First Gentleman (probably starring Vince Vaughn or Will Ferrell)
What do you do when your wife becomes the most powerful person in the free world? Quit your dayjob and kick it in the White House!
Comedic moments could include:
Playing video games in the Situation Room.
Football with your bro-hams on the White House lawn.
Kegger on Air Force One
Pranking the cranky VP
Hijinks, hilarity etc…
Feel free to send me bags of money Hollywood Execs that may be reading this.
February 13, 2008
I have a short comic up at Myspace Comic Books.
It’s a story co-written with Josh Smeaton and art by me starring our character Rocket.
It’s a Myspace exclusive and it’s entitled“The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.” Check it out!
January 23, 2008
January 15, 2008
January 14, 2008
If I don’t get this comic out of my head I think it’s going to kill me.
Wendy (the lifemate) and I were talking the other night about developing characters as she’s taking a creative writing class right now and I came to realize how much my Buckshot story is a bastardization of ideas that have been percolating in my head for a while now. I actually sat on it for a year or so and just filed it away in a loose ideas folder on my computer. It wasn’t until Jeff and I decided to co-write a comic did it all start coming together. Now I have 96 pages thorughly plotted out and 32 pages written and waiting to be drawn.
False starts in writing are a bitch but false starts in comics will break your heart I completed four (and a half) pages and then decided it wasn’t matching what was in my head and started over from the character designs on up. I’ve completed two pages of the revisions and I’m much happier with it but damn do i wish I was better, faster, stronger (Daft Punk Andy Khouri shout outs.) Ideally I’d like to be able to pencil ink and color a page in a day but I’d settle for two days as it’s currently taking me about three.
The other end of that stick is trying to figure out the zen like balance of not overthinking the work making everything too stiff looking versus going too fast and making everything too sloppy. And not getting too stuck in my head about being too in my head. Thinking less and drawing more.
If you click over to my sketchjournal, I’ve actually posted the new and old pages for comparison and if you keep on scrolling down you’ll find some character designs too.
