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Continuing a Pre-San Diego tradition

July 28, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Illustrations, Real Life Happenings!

Last year, I drew a cartoon for my buddy Josh Wigler as he worked vigorously to prepare for Comic-Con International in San Diego. Josh used that cartooned image of himself for his Twitter icon up until last week… when he asked me to doodle him up a new face to run alongside his tweets. Busy with Comic-Con prep work for Dark Horse myself, not to mention I needed to do laundry and other assorted chores in preparation of a week away from home, I still wanted to keep the tradition going and doodled up this new image while washing my unmentionables.
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The Greatness of Grickle

February 22, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Highest Recommendations!, Skimming the Internets

I’ve learned that one of the nicest parts of my job is that I am frequently exposed to books that I might not have encountered were I not attempting to get them publicity. One of these recent surprises—I’m ashamed to say “recent,” as his work is really tremendous—was the cartooning of Graham Annable.
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All Day Pizza Buffet: Conflicts

February 12, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: All Day Pizza Buffet, Comicks, Illustrations

I futzed around with a few quick doodles on Photoshop and these are the kooky and amateurish results.
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How should I keep up with comics and what should I read once I decide?

January 19, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Real Life Happenings!

Keeping up with comics has become a curious situation for me over the past six months.
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Movember linkage on ComicsAlliance!

October 26, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Facial Hair, Skimming the Internets

Earlier today, my good buddy Caleb Goellner helped raise awareness about Movember by constructing a link roundup and list of great mustachioed comic book heroes over at ComicsAlliance.
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Check out “Conan the Cimmerian” and “The ACT-I-VATE Primer”

October 21, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks

At Big Apple Comic Con this past weekend, I grabbed a free copy of the last issue of Wizard I worked on before being let go. There are two pieces in this ish that it was particularly enjoyable to write, the “Book of the Month” feature on Dark Horse’s “Conan the Cimmerian” and the “Webcomic of the Month” feature on “The ACT-I-VATE Primer.” For your reading convenience, I’m posting them here.

Please enjoy and then go check these great titles out at your local comic shop!
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Great Comic Quotes: More from ‘Fear Agent’

October 01, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Great Comic Quotes!

Rick Remender’s action-packed sci-fi comic Fear Agent is always good for a quotable. Series protagonist Heath Huston is often quoting Samuel Clemens within the book’s pages and he’s usually the man who ends up with the best lines as well. Though this selection isn’t quite as raucous as the last Fear Agent line I posted here, it did have a more subtle quotability that I enjoyed.
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Straight up pluggin’ it: “Special Edition” #1

September 25, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Grassroots comics love, Highest Recommendations!, Skimming the Internets

Now, I don’t normally sit in my ivory tower of blogginess and insist you purchase things on my recommendation (aside from all these AMAZING T-SHIRTS!!!), but I must insist you grab a copy of Special Edition #1.
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All Day Pizza Buffet: Hulk versus Doctor Strange

September 25, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: All Day Pizza Buffet, Comicks, Illustrations

Another entry in my personal “Hulk versus” series.
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All Day Pizza Buffet: Train Ride

August 21, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: All Day Pizza Buffet, Comicks, Illustrations

When you ride the train into the city every morning, you start to wonder about all the other people sitting alongside you.
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