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And here’s the colored version of A mini Tour de Comics. In the same extremely small thumbnails way.
Yesterday evening, I finally completed my short comic about making comics. I have named it ‘A mini Tour De Comics’.
I completed the whole 11 pages in 7 days, an achievement for my speed.
I have sent it to ComixIndia.com for publishing in their forthcoming booklet on the same topic. The booklet will contain entries from some more people on this subject, nearly 10 pages from each author.
Once they publish it on their website, I will keep one copy here for free download. Who knows, the current B&W comic may acquire some colors by then 
Since a post about making comics is incomplete without some pictures, and I am not supposed to publish it here before the publisher does it, here are very small thumbnails of the comic. They are large enough to entice an interest, and small enough to be unreadable 
These are 2 initial (unfinished) pages I did last week for my ‘Comic on Making Comics’
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- Unfinished
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Few days back, ComixIndia.com asked for submissions. The topic? Short ‘comics’ about making comics. In essence, some form of graphic narrative which would be useful for any comics creator in making of comics.
I initially decided NOT to participate for 2 reasons:
1. I want to finish the current story I am working on as soon as possible (I am working on it since more than 5 months now)
2. I have already read ‘Making Comics’ by Scott McCloud and ‘Comics – the Sequencial Art’ by Will Eisner, and felt that there was nothing more to say about making comics. I also felt that I would not be able to avoid copying these masters if I did venture into this arena.
When my concious mind was made up not to participate, my subconcious mind started generating new ideas for this project. My resistance to these ideas lasted exactly 1 and a half days before I gave in and started sketching down the ideas on paper.
Last week I completed the 11 page draft of a preliminary guide for a comic to make comics. Then I finished rough sketching of all 11 pages and inking of 3 pages by last weekend. I am working on 8th page now, and intend to finish this by coming weekend.
To complete this project faster than my usual ones, I employed a more cartoony style of drawing, as opposed to the more realistic style I frequently use. The emphasis is on clean, sharp, continuous lines, and less shading. You may not find much of intricate shading here. Someday soon, I am also planning to color it. When it’s done, I will release it as a free PDF download.
Keep watching this space for more.
Last weekend I watched one of the most anticipated movies till now – Avatar.
This post is not about Avatar!
This post is about the man behind Avatar, and the dream he lived, and what it signifies for me.
Innumerable pages and bytes have been spent on writing about Avatar and its creator, James Cameron. Cameron, who has created such pathbreaking entertainers like Terminator 1 and 2 (and no, he did not have a hand in the godawful T3), The Abyss. Aliens, True Lies, Titanic and now, Avatar was a truck driver when he was 22!
Since the day he watched Star Wars in 1977, he had a dream – to make something even on a grander scale. Finally he realized his vision with Avatar.
I will not talk about Avatar here, even though I thought the movie was fantastic. What I am more impressed about the passion with which JC persued his dream, how far he worked (and made others work) till it was perfect to his ideas, and in the whole process, did not ever let any critic change his course.
I envy that guy not (just) because he is so wealthy, or successful, or famous; but because he is one of the rarest few who have the means to follow their lifelong dreams with full passion.
Someday I want to be in that position. My dream may not be to make something grander than Avatar (although that’s not a bad idea at all), but it will be as close to my heart as Avatar has been to JC’s.
An announcement for all budding and wannabe comics authors/artists.
Comixindia.com (a comics enthusiast site) and Pothi.com (A self publishing print-on-demand site) annonced at the end of Nov 2009 about a magazine, COMIX.INDIA VOLUME 1 – RANDOM SELECTION.
The magazine is introduced to publish an anthology of sorts of independent comics creators in India.
The following are guidelines for submission
1. A4 size, black and white, at least 20 pages, at most 40 pages each.
2. Scanned / created digitally at 300 DPI and above.
3. Any topic (that’s why it’s called Random Selection)
Due to the inherent nature of Print-on-demand, there’s no up-front monetory investment on the part of authors. The magazine copies will be printed physically only when somebody orders (and pays for) them.
The deadline for submissions is 31st Dec 09. So if you are interested to be in this project, you can check out the site comixindia.com.
I have already submitted my story ‘The Replacement’ for this issue.
The below picture is a sample cover for this anthology, and the actual cover page will greatly differ (actually, it will have no resemblance to this page whatsoever)
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