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I’ve got an arrow through my heart for “Eros Inc.”

October 31, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Facial Hair, Highest Recommendations!, Illustrations, Skimming the Internets

For roughly a month, I’ve been contemplating the best way to express my feelings (via blog) about the webcomic “Eros Inc.” Thanks to a recent purchase, my jumbled thoughts—thoughts so jumbled due to how much I truly enjoy this comic—have gained a little organization and I’ll now commence spouting my admiration for this strip by Michael May. Let the gushing begin!
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Webcomics in ‘Wizard’

August 27, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Grassroots comics love, Skimming the Internets

Readers of the EoP! Though I’m not normally one to mix my hobby blog and my day job, a story I conceived and edited for issue #214 of Wizard is now online and you should all check it out.
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San Diego Comic-Con from the sidelines

July 30, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Grassroots comics love, Skimming the Internets

Last weekend was the massive San Diego Comic-Con. For those living under rocks in caves on the moon, SDCC is a pop culture and comic book convention of epic proportions that is chock-full of panels featuring comic pros, Hollywood stars and specially screened clips of upcoming movies—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The show floor is loaded with nearly a bajillion exhibitors, artists, creators and vendors, and after hours there are parties out the wazoo.

Or so I’ve heard.
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Pouring one out for my homies.

July 21, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Grassroots comics love

This one goes out to my boy Josh Wigler, a badass reporter and workhorse for CBR who is up to his ears in San Diego Comic-Con prep work right now.
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Get your scroll on.

June 25, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Grassroots comics love, Highest Recommendations!

I’ve been meaning to do a big post about my favorite webcomics and my highest recommendations in that arena for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it yet (Sorry!). Still, after seeing today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weiner, I had to say something about how much I love his comic strip.
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A barbaric idea

May 17, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks

I came up with this fella on the subway home from work on Friday and finally had a chance to get him down on paper today. Essentially a spoof of a classic newspaper strip, he’s cute, cuddly and carries a big club… He’s Hagrrrr the Adorable: Baby Barbarian!
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EoP meets Pancake Lover

May 17, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Skimming the Internets

I was reading a lot about webcomics on Friday at work and doodled this little strip while editing documents. In the strip, I run into Dave Paggi’s Pancake Lover—who you can see more of over at Rowdy Schoolyard—and have a webcomic encounter with him. This one’s done in amazing ballpoint pen on a super cool legal notepad.
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A camp-centric comic strip gets Nothing More American back on track

May 10, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Marginalia

Hey folks! With things going so smoothly here on EoP, I had a chance today to get my summer camp memoir blog back on track. I won’t post notices here every time that happens, but my the new post over at Nothing More American— the first in a long time—features a comic strip I drew to introduce the story. So, head on over to www.NothingMoreAmerican.com and check out the strip!

I’ll also begin posting links to any infrequent strips I do over at NMA on the “Webcomics” page, so checking there regularly will allow you to keep up on any camp comics I do.

No stranger to danger!

April 30, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks

After drawing up my swine flu comic and feeling as if I had spent more time on it practicing perspective and scenery than actually on the characters and the humor of it, I really felt I needed to draw and post something a bit more…well, awesome.

Here’s what I came up with, and I think it turned out pretty darn good…
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Watch out for these little piggies in your market!

April 30, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Food Stuffs

I won’t claim to know much of anything about this whole swine flu thing, but—like everyone else, I’m sure—I keep hearing the name bandied about left and right. Anywho, a weird little concept spinning out of swine flu mania and a children’s story came to me last night and I figure I’d draw it up as a one-panel comic strip. About halfway through drawing it I kinda of thought, “Hmm, this was funnier earlier,” but I was enjoying spending some time practicing my doodling of entire scenes, and not just people, so I think it was a worthwhile exercise either way…

…and if that doesn’t completely undersell it, then I don’t know what does?! I best just let it speak for itself and hopefully people get a few chuckles out of it.
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