Before I give my weekly reckoning, just thought I’d share some news:
I had a great show at the Seventh Annual CrockerCon at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The show ran from 6pm-9:30, and all evening, clips from my Youtube.com/DiaryOfAStrugglingComicsArtist channel played in the 260-seat auditorium!
At 6:30 I gave a presentation including a 10-minute sample of not-yet-released footage! At 8:30 hosted a panel interviewing local comics artists on their gallery show that’s up now, and we discussed definitions of “art” and explored differences and similarities between comics and other artistic media, such as paintings, literature, and film. Here I am at the gallery show, where two of my Doris Danger original art pieces were on display.
The Sacramento Bee did a brief write-up about Crocker Con, where they spotlighted my name:
“Setting this year’s event apart was a special presentation by Chris Wisnia, a comic artist who also runs a blog and YouTube channel called “Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist” where he interviews other successful comic artists about their work and experiences.”
You can read the full article HERE.
Okay, onto the Reckoning.
This month, I posted some new Doris Danger web comic pages, beginning HERE. It took some extra “fidgeting time”, as I updated the posts for Chronological readings of Doris Danger, the FBI, Felk, Mull, and Sleet (click their icons below the images!), because I realized that, chronologically, Doris would need to be captured by FBI in Chapter One, THEN be escorted by Mull and Felk in Chapter 35, THEN be taken to Felk and interrogated for Chapter Three and broken out by the Monster Liberation Army, THEN return back to Chapter Two, and so on!
I also posted a high-res print of Spwumm, Pointing Fiend! (for YOU kind $4 Patreon patrons, and a PDF of Doris Danger’s Volume 3, Chapter 4 (for YOU kind $1 Patreon patrons).
Also, if you go to Sner-Snee’s splash page, YOU kind $4 Patreon patrons can see the full-color (thanks to Ricky Sprague) published image, AND the original black-and-white scan, AND the pencils by legendary Dick Ayers, who inked Jack Kirby’s 1950’s-60’s giant monster comics! Dick actually penciled his version and had panel one of what wound up being the next page all fit into his (unused and altered) version.
I’ve also been posting a selfie video talking about my Doris Danger comics, every week, over at Youtube.com/DiaryOfAStrugglingComicsArtist. I consider them the equivalent of commentaries on DVD’S, but with the added bonus that I always film them in exotic settings around the globe!
And speaking of Youtube.com/DiaryOfAStrugglingComicsArtist… we’ve posted a couple free vids for EVERYONE! That means YOU!:
78. RYAN SOOK (video, approx 2:35, Public)
80. STEVE NILES (video, approx. 4:45, Public)
There are dozens of great freebie vids, if you pop over to our Diary Index page. Please enjoy!
And lastly, for YOU kind $7 Patreon patrons, we’ve recently posted the following videos:
74. JIM STARLIN 2 (video, approx 2:20, $7 Patrons)
75. SAM KIETH 3 (video, approx 1:40, $7 Patrons)
76. KELLEY JONES (video, approx. 2:10, $7 Patrons)
77. CECIL CASTELLUCCI 2 (video, approx. 3:00, $7 Patrons)
79. RYAN SOOK 2 (video, approx 2:50, $7 Patrons)
81. STEVE NILES 2 (video, approx 2:35, $7 Patrons)
Can you believe we’ve hit eighty videos?? Wow! Couldn’t have done it without all YOU! Thanks so much. You are appreciated.
Sincerely,
Chris