Dylan writes:
bitemecomic.com
HELLO NEW WEBSITE.
New scans of all the pages. New site. New eeeeeverything. And:
Only 10 (ten!) days until Bite Me! is for sale online! Only 2 (two!) days until Bite Me! is for sale at the Stumptown Comics Fest!
In celebration of the book’s print debut, I am declaring A BOOK GIVEAWAY CONTEST.
TERMS OF THE CONTEST:
1) re-stage a panel from Bite Me! and send in a digital photo of it.
Any panel you like. You don’t have to try and recreate it exactly – in fact, creativity will earn points. If you can get a celebrity to stand in for Claire, or instead of on horseback you’re on an elephant, or if you’re wearing a bunny suit? Aces.
The key is to get the facial expressions and general composition right! The rest is gravy.
DETAILS:
E-mail your photo to: bitemecontest@gmail.com
Please make sure your photo is less than 1Mb.
Please also be sure to send me or link me to the page containing the original panel you’re recreating!
All the original pages are now hosted on my own server - use them for reference!

PRIZES:

Grand prize is the deluxe Bite Me! package – a copy of the book, a commemorative spoon, a set of 5 Bite Me 1″-buttons, a “Real Vampires Don’t Sparkle” sticker, and an original sketch.

One runner-up gets the book with an original sketch.

Top 10 will be displayed in an online gallery on the website with my commentary.

DEADLINE:

April 24th – winners announced April 26th, when the store opens!

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Just in time for the Stumptown Comics Fest, Erika and Dylan have received giant shipments of their books from the printer. Read more at their sites:

Erika Moen and Dylan Meconis show off their brand-new books

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Ron Chan is currently working on issue #42 of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for Dark Horse Comics! He will be penciling and inking the issue, and it should be out around mid ‘09. This is an early sketch he did of the main character, Zayne Carrick.

Ron Chan's sketch of Zayne for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

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Dylan Meconis has collected her first webcomic Bite Me. This is the cover.

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Dylan Meconis’s work will be part of this exhibit:
Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics. It’s a traveling exhibit that starts at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and it “continues and expands on investigations such as Masters of American Comics, presented in 2005 by UCLA’s Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, by showcasing areas of sequential art that might otherwise be overlooked or underappreciated.”

Dylan also has a new Family Man podcast up.

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NPR’s Neda Ulaby spoke to a bunch of us at Periscope Studio about how we listen to music. Alas, they credit me as the writer of Whiteout instead of the illustrator. Sorry Greg! Anyhow, I woke up to this story and slapped at the clock radio on instinct, then realized I’d cut myself off in mid-sentence.

Also, Dylan Meconis has published the latest round of her notes for Family Man. Is there a webcomic out there, anywhere, that draws on a wider range of influences? No.

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Happy Birthday!

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Look at this batch of profiles by Dylan Meconis. Nine attractive women of various ethnicities, clearly tagged to be easily identified, with no stereotyping or wild distortion, all in a casual sketchbook drawing. Go Dylan, go!

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“Bite Me! was pretty much me having low-effort silly fun and learning as I went – my skills improved a great deal over the course of the story, but I still wasn’t investing major time in the art beyond what I needed to to make it entertaining and keep myself interested. Cartoony and all done by hand. Family Man looks completely different – it’s in a much more “realistic” style, with a lot of sensitive linework and textured digital shading, elaborate environments, actual visual research into costumes and so on. It was an intentional departure. I can still draw crazy/silly/lazy, but I wanted to do something that really pulled you into a solid-feeling world with a particular atmosphere.”




There’s a Dylan Meconis interview at Comixtalk,

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Steven Grant at Comic Book Resources reviews two of Sara Ryan‘s mini comics: Flytrap #3, illustrated by Ron Chan, and Click, illustrated by Dylan Meconis.

All three creators will be guests this weekend at The Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, and they’ll be happy to discuss their work on these or many other comics, or even talk to you about Switzerland, MMA, 18th century theology, or any of their many other various obsessions. Other Emerald City guests include Kieron Dwyer, David Hahn, Karl Kesel, Colleen Coover & Paul Tobin, Susan Tardif, Ron Randall, Jesse Hamm, Rich Ellis & Cat Ellis, Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett, me (Steve Lieber) and Matthew Clark.

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