#Enter the Blue

[davechisholmmusicandcomics]

It's fun to try to find ways to control readers so that they read the panels in the "wrong" order--instead of L-R, top-to-bottom. In this page from my new graphic novel ENTER THE BLUE, the music notation pushes the reader down, up, and down, which brings a fitting momentum to Jimmy's collapse!

[eastsidemags]

Tyranny of the Muse Signing

East Side Mags is super excited to announce that we’ll be hosting local author/writer Eddie Wright to our space with his amazing graphic novel called Tyranny of the Muse!

TYRANNY OF THE MUSE by creator/writer Eddie Wright (A Broken Everything, Regular Show) and illustrator Dave Chisholm (Chasin’ the Bird, Enter the Blue) is the darkly funny, emotionally messy, and oddly sweet story about a troubled artist, a reluctant muse, and the inescapable influence of the past.

 EDDIE WRIGHT is a writer from New Jersey. In 2009 he wrote and published the novella Broken Bulbs which he adapted into the graphic novel in your hands. Always taking a scrappy, DIY approach to creative work, he often jumps from one project to the next (for better or worse), be it comics, copywriting, blogging, television writing, video production, creative direction, audio, or whatever else inspires him. He has written stories for the Regular Show comic series (BOOM! Studios) as well as several issues of the horror comic Lake Imago. In 2022 he also released the absurdist novel A Broken Everything. He is currently working on a novel, audio project, comic, and probably a few other things too.

Join us on February 25th from 1pm-5pm where Eddie will be hanging out, signing copies of his book and chatting with us about writing comics and books and his ability to manage multiple types of projects one after the other!

[reasonsforhope]

This is now a Kamala Harris for President blog btw

Obviously I'll keep posting good news as usual! And I'm going to pull up as much good news and reasons for hope about Kamala Harris's campaign as I can.

[cozylittleartblog]

the piece i made for the @stillalivezine back in 2021

[meli-mouse]

just thinkin bout stuff

[solifelessblog]

Alex carrying Henry yess

Please reblog, don’t repost :)

[outletcrash]

shakes her around like a beetle in a jar

[butcharium]

What I saw there released tears I'd held back for years: strong, burly women, wearing ties and suit coats. Their hair was slicked back in perfect DAs. They were the handsomest women I'd ever seen.

- Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, p. 28

[fiepige]

Miguel and Hobie making their entrances (I love that they both get a slow-motion reaction shot from another spider-person as they enter)

[fluffyartbl0g]

More for my crack time travel au!!!!

Speedrun/Time Travel AU

[davechisholmmusicandcomics]

In my new graphic novel Enter the Blue, part of the story takes place in a kind of alternate dimension--one created by music--and I wanted those scenes to have different storytelling rules from the "real-life" scenes. Here are a few pages to demonstrate this contrast!

The "real-life" scenes read one page at a time, with white gutters and a nice "breath" to the page provided by the negative space created by that extra gutter space.

Meanwhile, those scenes in The Blue are almost all built on double-page spreads that read across the center divide--which means on that first tier of panels I always had to have a wide panel spread that divide so readers wouldn't get confused about the reading order.

The other obvious difference between these two visual treatments is that, for the scenes in The Blue, I used blue ink washes to get the colors and values down--I just love art that's full of texture and here it makes those scenes feel so heavy and good--and also, the "real-life" scenes have virtually no instances of the color blue in the imagery!

Without getting *too* spoilery, in the climax of the book we get scenes in the real world and in The Blue happening simultaneously which provided another nice challenge.

If you're a comic creator, feel free to be bold in your manipulation of form to reflect and enhance your story/themes/plot. Comics are SUCH a form-forward medium--so, from my POV, you might as well go for it and push your pages around like this.

[silverthefarmer]

after making so many posts disputing the notion of Elliott being a snob, i am forced to make a confession: i am actually extremely attached to the idea of him being a bit a snob but specifically about literary opinions

[lycazart]

nf but crop of a heisy charm im gonna get made for myself

[respectthepetty]

Hii! Just wanted to make sure you knew that the Your Dear Daddy trailer should be subbed now on YouTube! I just found out from your post it released and went over there to watch it expecting to make use of the 50 Thai words in my brain, but turns out I didn't need them!

Anon, thanks for letting me know, so I can be even more unhealthy about this show.

*trying not to make tea kettle noises*

BECAUSE THIS IS WHY SILA IS A HEAVENLY HUMAN!

WHEN HE SHOULD BE RED!

He will become this man's angel on earth and help him see the light.

He is going to save him from himself.

They are going to save each other.

And it's all because of divine intervention.

Which I'm sure involves that ring.

This show is about to get a colors award from a pilot trailer alone because THIS IS GENIUS!

Give me the story of a red devil turning into a white knight/angel to save a sad blue boy.

GIVE ME THE COLORS!

[seishiroses]

This was Nagi's chance to say "I am not okay with a conditional friendship/partnership like that." But too bad...sometimes you win, sometimes you set up your own character development in a future arc.

[elderwisp]

𝔤𝔢𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔶, 𝔭𝔬𝔭 𝔦𝔱, 𝔩𝔢𝔱'𝔰 𝔤𝔬