Stick Figure Night Live! is a series of stick figure comic “recreations” of episodes of Saturday Night Live. Just as the show itself is performed live, the comics are drawn “live” while watching the show (with the occasional assist from DVR or some digital clean-up post scanning).
The new issue of SpongeBob Comics, the fourth, in fact, can be purchased today at better comic shops everywhere.
Here’s the cover, drawn by me over a layout by Graham Annable:
I also drew 12 interior pages, four of which are a story written by my good friend Brian Smith, creator of the The Intrepid EscapeGoat, a great book worth checking out/asking your local comic shop to order.
Comic-Con International 2011 in San Diego, CA has passed us by, and as in years past, the show is a bear. I survived…and I’d call it successful, but for getting sick on that very last day. Suffice it to say I flew high while I flew but it was a rough landing.
That said, the show was not without highlights and plenty of sketches, so let us talk about that!
Before the show even started, as I walked to the convention center for Preview Night, I happened to see and recognize Scott Aukerman and Kulap Vilaysack, host and co-host, respectively, of the podcasts “Comedy Bang Bang:The Podcast” and “Who Charted?”, also respectively. These are both great shows to which I listen regularly, so that was, at least for me, a celebrity sighting worth mentioning. Scott’s the man behind the must-see comedy show at LA’s UCB Theatre Comedy Bang Bang: Stand-Up (formerly Comedy Death Ray). There is a definite linkage between comics and comedy, and if you listened to Episode One of MY podcast, “Stuff Said”, you’ll know it’s a thing I’m sort of fascinated by (heck, I even did this comic (contains mild language), the closest I’ll come to “performing” stand-up).
The point of all that being: hey, listen to those shows, they’re great!
But surely you’re asking, “Gregg, what’s the story with that puppet at the top of this post?”
It’s summer. It’s July. And that means it’s time for San Diego Comic-Con International.
Yep, it’s Convention Time…and at this year’s Comic-Con you can find me in Artists Alley, table FF-18! Stop buy, have a chat, buy a thing, etc!
The second episode of “Stuff Said with Gregg Schigiel”, my talk show podcast situation, is now up and available at stuffsaidshow.com and iTunes (search “Stuff Said with Gregg Schigiel”, naturally)…check it out!
I’ve gone and started a podcast. It’s called “Stuff Said with Gregg Schigiel” and it’s a show of me talking to people in and around the world of comics, cartooning, etc.
Where can you learn more and hear it? Right HERE. (where you can also follow a link to subscribe via RSS and/or iTunes)
The first episode’s available now, with more to come…enjoy!
Hey gang, the latest issue of SPONGEBOB COMICS, the third issue, is now available at finer comic shops everywhere!
I’m responsible for drawing 10 of the 32 pages in this issue. But of extra note and excitement, is that those pages were done in collaboration with the one and only Ramona Fradon, who for those who don’t know, is a legitimate comics legend. As a comics artist in the 1960s she had a great run at DC Comics drawing Aquaman, and she co-created the fantastic character Metamorpho: The Element Man.
And while this collaboration mostly involved my drawing pages that were sent to Ramona to work on, I did get a chance to meet and chat with Ramona at Comic-Con in San Diego last year which was an absolute pleasure. Plus, I picked up this piece of art which, well, I’ll let it speak for itself:
I’ll be at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC this weekend, 6/3-6/5, sitting at Artist Alley table AA-220. I’ll have original art, prints, sketches, books…a veritable smorgasbord!
Meanwhile, for those noticing a gap in when I last posted, I can only say I’ve been working and traveling and doing less updating. That said, over the past month or so I attended a tremendous Free Comic Book Day at Acme Comics in Greensboro, NC, closed out the first season of Saturday Night Live by closing out the first “season” of Stick Figure Night Live, and have been plugging away on the usual mix of SpongeBob SquarePants, TMNT comics for Russia, and the latest, Spider-Man work for a magazine to be published in Italy. A truly international enterprise.
I’ve got some other stuff in the oven which I’d rather not talk about too much until it’s properly golden brown and delicious. But until then, if you’re in or near Charlotte, stop by and say hello at Heroes Con!
Stick Figure Night Live! is a series of stick figure comic “recreations” of episodes of Saturday Night Live. Just as the show itself is performed live, the comics are drawn “live” while watching the show (with the occasional assist from DVR or some digital clean-up post scanning).
Stick Figure Night Live! is a series of stick figure comic “recreations” of episodes of Saturday Night Live. Just as the show itself is performed live, the comics are drawn “live” while watching the show (with the occasional assist from DVR or some digital clean-up post scanning).