Thanks guys! I posted some new pages today. Here are a few that turned out well:

Thanks you two. Here are a few more things:

First, another page from Sexbuzz that came out well.



Also here's a recent illustration job -- a book cover. I'm not very good at coloring.

Hi everyone! I haven't posted here in forever, but I've been busy working on a bunch of comics. Here are a few of them. Please let me know what you think...I'm always super open to crits, etc.
 
First, a few pages from a comic adapting a short story by Italo Calvino.


 
You can read the rest of that here.
 
Next, here's some stuff from Sexbuzz, my ongoing soft scifi thing. It's about 100 pages so far and looks like it's going to end at around 160.




 
It doesn't directly follow that last sequence, but here are a few more pages that I just finished yesterday. Posting them here first because I just love you guys so very much.

Great idea for a thread, angie, and thanks for including me.

To add to the print-on-demand list, I would dissuade people from using Comixpress (http://www.comixpress.com/). Their printing quality is pretty good, but I've have too many bad experiences in terms of turn around times and customer service to say it's worth using them. Lulu is my personal preference.

Thanks, guys -- I have a solid USB headset, but I'll give that program a try.

I do this all the time and it's really helpful.  I usually like to work from cartoonists that have really strong compositions, and do just a quick sketch of the page focusing on layout, placing blacks, etc, rather than trying to get an exact copy.  I would recommend adding Alex Toth, Jaime Hernandez, Jacques Tardi and Yoshihiro Tatsumi to the already solid list you guys have complied.

The manga companies have never really gone out of their way to do anything about it until now, is the way i am understanding it.

Apparently the majority of major manga companies have now contacted the major sites and told them to stop.

My beef is that it takes so long for translations to hit our shores, what are we supposed to do now? wait a year and a half for the stories etc to catch up?

Yes.  Look, for a long time I read as much manga online as the next guy, but I think the perspective of the manga publishers has much more merit than most of you guys seem to think (I'm not trying to pick on you in particular, Enef).  The manga market has been in decline for some time, and the publishers were bound to address scanlations at some point.  I first got into comics through scanlations, and I really am sorry to see them go, but good on the publishers for taking this united, uniform initiative rather than the haphazard address-one-site-every-once-in-a-while approach that Marvel and DC have been taking to address the same problem.  It was going to happen eventually, and it really bugs me when people act like they are entitled the right to read illegal scanlations.  Maybe some of the Naruto scanlators will take this opportunity to instead translate some of the great manga that still isn't available in English, for which I don't see as big of a problem with online distribution.

Wolcik, I'm more sympathetic to your complaint, because I was in the same situation for a while (living in a country where I couldn't get much manga in print) but the vast majority of English speaking manga readers are in countries where they could purchase manga if they chose to do so, and you can't really blame the publishers for not really taking the small minority that you are a part of in account.  It might be expensive, but for stuff that you really want to buy there's always the Internet.

On a related point, I think that now would be a great time for publishers like Viz and Tokyopop to cut the prices on their manga volumes by lowering production values.  Unlike, say, some of the more literary manga published by places like Vertical, Naruto, One Piece and the like are mass market products, and they should be treated as such in terms of presentation.  If American publishers followed the format of the Japanese tankoubons more closely (chiefly with smaller sizes and lower paper quality), I would imagine their books would be a couple dollars cheaper, and annoucning such a change now would go a long way towards appeasing the hardcore fans that will be angriest about this anti-scanlation initiative.

Anyways, sorry to derail this thread.  That was much longer than I planned it to be.  I recently finished Dylan Horrocks' Hicksville and I highly recommend it.

Thanks, guys!  Hopefully Zuda is still interested in 8 page submissions with the end of their contests, because otherwise I have no idea what I'm going to do with this thing.

here are a couple more recent comics:





Also, a couple panels from my in-progress Zuda entry...only two pages left!

Does this mean that the old interviews will finally be archived in an accessible manner?

Thanks Pi, and yes I will start serializing it online shortly.  Here are a couple more things:

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