Writing, editing, storytelling, and more from Jim Gibbons
Remember, like a million years ago, when I slapped together a bunch of Adventure Time art into a wallpaper I called “The Many Faces of Finn?” To date, that post has scored my blog more hits than any other blog entry I’ve done here at Enemy of Peanuts. In short, that little wallpaper I whipped up is kinda popular on the internets. So popular, in fact, that it’s just received its own bit of fan art at the Adventure Time tumblr!
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Well how about that! Though I sent it over to them months ago, the tumbleblog for the upcoming Cartoon Network show “Adventure Time” has just started posting fan art left and right and finally got around to posting mine!
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As I’ve blogged before, I’m a massive fan of Pendleton Ward’s “Adventure Time,” and with the show finally getting ready to go on air, I’m pretty darn excited.
So excited, in fact, that when I saw a series of Finn (the radtacular main character) headshots from the Cartoon Network senior staff presentation on the Adventure Time Art Tumblr, I just had to piece them all together into a wallpaper for my computer.
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As I’ve blogged before, I am a massive fan of “Adventure Time.” And, I am awesome. So by super technical science, these kids who painted an “Adventure Time” mural in their dorm are extremely awesome!
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All Day Pizza Buffet
A series of simple doodle cartoons that I update on occasion.
Enemy Of Peanuts: The Webcomic
A sprawling, haphazard adventure about a lone warrior in a legume-filled world that’s out to get him.
Electric Manhole
…indefinitely postponed.
Casual Cartooning
Other little strips and comic images I’ve drawn up on a whim or because they make me chuckle.
Nothing More American
Infrequent strips from my summer camp memoir blog
Sketchy Book
Random illustrations.
I love comics and I love beer, so I’m pretty psyched about this dream project: I’m writing the new comic Legend of Ninkasi: Rise of Craft. Ninkasi, one of Oregon’s absolute best breweries, is partnering with Dark Horse Comics for a beer-soaked adventure comic and, luckily for this beer-swilling comic nerd, they asked me to write it! Continue Reading “I’m Writing Legend of Ninkasi: Rise of Craft”
I have a love/hate relationship with year end “Best Of” lists. I love them, because I’m curious to see what books, movies, TV shows, styles of yogurts, sweatpants, and cute puppy videos are among the year’s best and most loved. But I hate them because, as Powell’s Staff Picks Top Fives remind me, there are way too many good books that come out each year for me to possibly read a good amount of them, let alone read them all.
Back in 2010, knowing I couldn’t keep up with new releases well enough to do a decent “Best Of” list, I began simply listing all the books I read as a study in… myself, I guess. How much did I read? What did I read about? What time of year did I read most? This probably ends up only being interesting to me, but heck, I’ve been doing it for over half a decade now so I guess I’ll keep it up!
(Check out previous My Year In Books posts: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.) Continue Reading “My Year in Books: 2016”
Every year, instead of a “My Picks for Best Books of the Year” list, I make a “Here’s What I Read This Year” list. I’m way, way, way behind on this post … 2015’s been a busy one so far! But, in keeping with the grand tradition (Check out previous Years In Books, if you’re so inclined: 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.), here’s what I read in 2014… Continue Reading “My Year In Books: 2014”
Much like last year, as opposed to a “Best of” list, I’ve compiled a list of what books I read in 2011.
The books are listed chronologically based on when I finished them. Notable reads are marked in italics. The novels I read were work related, but otherwise, this doesn’t include stuff I read specifically for the purposes of my job.
Here’s the list of the 50+ books I enjoyed this past year.
Continue Reading “My Year in Graphic Novels: 2011”
Recently, Dark Horse social media guru Spencer Newlin-Cushing asked me to write up a staff pick for the newly-launched Dark Horse Digital Store. I was more than happy to oblige and wrote up this recommendation for King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel…
“Grab a cup, boy. If it’s a tale you want, then, by Crom, a tale I’ll give you.”
From a face rife with deep grooves, either of wrinkles brought on by age or sword scars of battles long past, a graying Conan’s words to a Nemedian chronicler in search of the barbarian king’s most intense exploits acts as the perfect introduction for this action-packed series. Less the bar-brawling warrior now, but no less formidable, King Conan recounts a tale that focuses on a time when his army had been decimated and, cutting down swordsmen left and right, the brawny ruler is eventually taken captive by a power-hungry wizard—and that’s when the fun really starts!
King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel is the quintessential tale of the young Cimmerian thief, mercenary and pirate who grew to be a leader of men. With bloodshed and beheadings, monsters and mayhem, Tim Truman adapts a tale from legendary pulp scribe Robert E. Howard that’s the perfect introduction for a new reader to Conan’s exciting adventures and another thrilling chapter for longtime fans to read. And with art from Tomás Giorello that caused ComicBookResources.com to exclaim “Giorello gets a lifetime pass to draw this character and his world because he does it with such texture and poise,” what more could you want?!
—Jim Gibbons, Assistant Editor