Writing, editing, storytelling, and more from Jim Gibbons
When we last left our hero, he was doing some badass inner-monologueing as he trudged through a desert followed by a mysterious shadow. Let’s see what happens next, shall we?
Continue Reading “‘Enemy of Peanuts: The Webcomic’ Part 2”
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…
Continue Reading “No stranger to danger!”
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 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.
Continue Reading “Watch out for these little piggies in your market!”
This one’s all about the nostalgia.
It’s not the most striking image, but I think the reason this cover deserves to be among the entrants in CCC (my Choice Comic Covers!) is because I saw so little of it that it as a kid that it became somewhat a novelty. When I flipped through my comic collection, this classic cover would always remind me of the last time I pulled it out, read it and loved it. I was normally so engrossed with the interiors that I never thought much about the cover, till I’d be searching through my comics again weeks, months or years later and it’d call out to me. I picked it back up so many times during these shuffles through my childhood comics, giving it another go with each rediscovery, that I literally read the cover right off my copy of Uncanny #308
Continue Reading “Choice Comic Covers: ‘Uncanny X-Men’ #308”
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.
Please contact Jim at jimgibbons1[at]gmail[dot]com for all writing, editing, and other inquiries.
Last night I finally got a chance to sit down and finalize some of the storyboards I had been working on for Enemy of Peanuts: The Webcomic, so here’s the first two panels. I’m running a few different versions here because I still haven’t perfected much of anything (including my own artistic skills, so more versions put out means more chances to slightly impress someone, right?!). Right now, I’m shooting to deliver at least a few panels to a full sequence a week (anywhere from the meager two panels here on to five or seven bits of a fight scene), and I’ll try to post them each week on Sunday night or Monday.
Thanks for checking it out, folks! Any and all feedback is welcomed below!
As a writer and editor (as well as an intern, reporter and freelancer), I’ve racked up a load of clips and links across the print and online mediums—once upon a time, that is. Here’s a semi-comprehensive catalog of my ol’ journo work.
A bunch of these links are dead now, but I’m leaving the list intact for posterity’s sake.
Freelance Writer (Late 2009)
Comic Book Resources
Associate Editor of Wizard magazine (February 2009-September 2009)
Editing clips
Writing samples
WizardUniverse.com News Editor (December 2007-February 2009)—Due to numerous Web site erasures and relaunches, all of the below links associated with WizardUniverse.com are now dead. Apologies.
Interviews
Reviews
Columns
Features
Beat News
Reporting for the Columbia Missourian (August-November 2007)
Wizard Freelancer (August-November 2007)
My days as a Wizard intern (Summer 2007)
Reporter, Staff Writer and Senior Staff Writer at student newspaper The Maneater, aka “The often embarrassing olden days of Jim’s journalism career.” (2003-2005)
Interviews
Reviews
Sidebars and mini-features
While sorting through a bunch of papers—searching for receipts and other tax nonsense after my recent move to New Jersey—I came across a Valentine I received from my lovely girlfriend Jessi.
I’d say this is easily the best greeting card I have ever received, because the premise is so ludicrous, but then I looked closer and remembered the stunning (and possibly prognosticatory) addition made by Jessi back in February (almost a month before this blog’s historic launch).
Further verification that my sworn enmity against legumes predates this blog, as well as verification I have a really swell girl!
The first “promo” images (known to many as “doodles”) for Enemy of Peanuts: The Webcomic, which—as the images say—is coming soon!
Now, an explanation:
As a guy who reads a butt-ton of comics, it’s pretty hard not to come up with an idea or two for some of my own panel-by-panel storytelling—Enemy Of Peanuts: The Webcomic is one such idea. EoP came to me as the name for a strip I could do based on a few ideas that had been kicked around by some close friends and myself back in college (former roommate Matt Misch and good buddy Frank Johnson stand out as people I recall discussing the idea with, though there are assuredly many more). Essentially, the story would be based loosely on me but more so on my allergy (peanuts! legumes!), and the original idea was almost entirely me fighting Mr. Peanut…constantly. The idea has evolved quite a bit since then (including the creation of the Enemy of Peanuts, who—though fictional—is twittering away already), as it had a comic appeal I couldn’t quite pass up, and I’ve now started laying down some of the over-arching plot outlines, fight scenes and such. It should be a lot of fun, so stay tuned.
As far as the art goes, I’m well aware that I am not an artist (I’d say “amateur cartoonist” at best), but years of doodling comics and characters in notepad margins shouldn’t go to waste! So, here, I am going to be tackling art duties on the strip…for now. In a perfect world, some amazing unknown artistic talent (Holy Shit! It could be you!) will stumble across my “strips” (read: storyboards) and offer his skills to make this hobby into a real cinematic adventure. Or, with luck, practice will make perfect and I’ll get kinda good. Who knows?!
That said, I’d love to get some feedback on the photoshop aid I’m using for the time being. The promo images above are all the same save a photoshop effect making them look, hopefully, better. I’d be insanely appreciative of anyone who’ll leave some comments about which effects you like better and which image-style has or would have you most excited to read the EoP’s adventures every week (or whatever the posting schedule ends up being for the strip).
That’s all for now. Thanks for stopping by and checking the early stages of Enemy Of Peanuts: The Webcomic out, and please, leave a little feedback