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.” 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. Dylan Meconis and Bill Mudron were commissioned by the Portland Mercury to create a comic strip about the Stumptown Comics Festival. Go, read: In other Stumptown news, Steve Duin’s blog at the Oregonian has a list of seven recommended convention guests to meet. I agree with six. Dylan Meconis is podcasting! She talks illustrators, webcomics, Portland, costumes, the creative process, hypothetical weaponry and more: Go here and listen.
“(Hollywood Gang Productions)has optioned rights to graphic novel The Last Christmas from Image Comics. Variety reports on the sale of The Last Christmas, illustrated by Rick Remender.
“Meconis’ illustrations give us a square-jawed man with a speech impediment who drinks, chain-smokes and works in his shirt sleeves. The image of him on the night he conceives of his famous experiment is marvelous. Working late on Christmas Eve, Harlow accidentally locks himself in the monkeys’ cage. The animals crawl all over him, nestling against his shoulders, and the annoyed look on his face is priceless.” The L.A. Times reviews Jim Ottaviani and Dylan Meconis’ Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love. (They also say she’s an OEL manga artist, but it’s a great review otherwise, so what the hell.)
Jonathan Case interviewed at the Comic Book Gazette. Sara Ryan and Ron Chan’s Flytrap, Sara and Dylan Meconis’ Click and Short Notice by Susan Tardif, reviewed at The Wright Opinion. Also, Paul Guinan’s Boilerplate got a shout-out in Publisher’s Weekly’s Stumptown coverage. Carla Speed McNeil visited the studio today. She and Dylan Meconis were cackling like lunatics working together on some design sketches.
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