Publishing, Portfolio, Podcasts & Potpourri by Gregg Schigiel
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 … Read more
Available today at better comic book stores: The second issue of SPONGEBOB COMICS, with a cover that looks a lot like this: Under that cover by Brian Smith (The Intrepid EscapeGoat, The Stuff of Legend) is another 32 pages of SpongeBob stories, including eight pages with pencils and inks by me.
This coming weekend, March 4-6, I will be at the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, Washington. It’s a great convention with a whole slew of talented guests and participants. I recommend it! I’ll be there sketching and talking and selling all kinds of goodies from copies of SPONGEBOB COMICS #1, X-BABIES comics, Puppet Hero prints, … Read more
Today, in fine comic book shops everywhere, SPONGEBOB COMICS #1, in which I penciled eight pages, hits the stands.
January’s come and gone and what do I have to show for it? Well, for starters, next week, 2/9, sees the release of SPONGEBOB COMICS #1, a bi-monthly series in which I’m a contributor. More on that next week The “Convention Sketches & Commissions” section has gotten a big update, showcasing art from the past … Read more
As mentioned two posts ago, the ongoing feature here of Stick Figure Night Live comics have spawned their very own “spin-off” site, appropriately named stickfigurenightlive.com. While I’ll continue to upload the comics where they’ve been posted here (click “Comics” above), at stickfigurenightlive.com, you’ll also get the occasional “commentary track” talking about the process behind the … Read more
It occurred to me that while I’ve been working fairly steadily on comics and comic related business in 2010, everything I’ve been working on won’t see print until 2011…and some of it won’t even see print in the United States.
So come February 2011, SPONGEBOB COMICS #1 will start the bi-monthly run of that series. More on that in the coming months, I’m sure.
And in the past month or so I’ve got a new cultural comics icon to add to my “I’ve worked on…” list: the heroes in a half shell themselves, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There’s a slight catch though. Remember when I said “some of it won’t even see print in the United States?” Well, these TMNT comics are being published in the UK, Russia, Poland, etc.
So for what it’s worth, I thought I’d share a couple of pages of inks of said comics. Here’s a 2-page story wherein the Turtles get into it with the Foot Clan at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
I recently made my second visit/appearance on the podcast Drew & Mike Save the World, this time joined by Chris Giarrusso. We get Googled and we talk about Comic-Con, robot news, and more. You can download it through iTunes or go to this link here and download Episode 0019: “You’re About to Meet the Wizard”.
Once again I’m attending Comic-Con International in San Diego, specifically holding it down in Artists Alley, table FF-18. I will have books, original art, and prints for sale, along with doing “sketches by request”, as usual. Over the years a lot of people have lamented the growth of the con and that “it’s not even … Read more
Tomorrow, June 3, the X-Babies mini-series I wrote gets released in its “graphic novel” collected edition; all four issues, alternate covers, and even some design/development sketches…96 pages under glorious paperback stock covers!
With its release, I wanted to share an e-mail sent to myself and (X-Babies artist) Jacob Chabot shortly after the release of X-BABIES #4 in January. It’s a long one, even edited a bit for content (and be warned, there are spoilers) but worth sticking with it. The sender, Dennis, wrote:
