Charlene Chua, illustration news » Comics http://blog.charlenechua.com Sketches, artwork, illustrations... and stuff Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:30:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Whazamo! Comic http://blog.charlenechua.com/2011/05/whamzo-comic/ http://blog.charlenechua.com/2011/05/whamzo-comic/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 17:23:29 +0000 Charlene Chua http://blog.charlenechua.com/?p=1054 whamzo comic

View full comic at WHAZAMO!

I was invited to contribute a 1-page web comic to WHAZAMO! I was asked to do a short about a book that made a difference in my life, and my book is ‘How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way’.

WHAZAMO! Ontario Graphic Novel Month is an online comics celebration by Open Book: Toronto. Be sure to check out the other shorts that are and will be going up! There is also a short video to be released at some point this month featuring the contributing artists.

Lots of love to Ian Daffern of Vepo Studios for inviting me to contribute to Whazamo!

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However, I am happy to announce that the comic anthology Liquid City 2 has been released! You should be able to pick it up in stores now.

Click image to preview 'Worn'

My husband and I contributed a short story called ‘Worn’, which I think I slammed out over 4 or 5 days several months ago. The style is a bit of a departure from the usual, but I think it worked out quite well. For Sandman fans, I hope you enjoy the stylistic influence of Marc Hempel (I loved his work on Kindly Ones and his stuff has been an influence on me ever since).

Liquid City 2 is the brainchild of Sonny Liew (Wonderland, Regifters, My Faith in Frankie), and is a compilation of short comics by artists and writers who hail from South East Asia. There are some lovely stories in this book – I really liked ‘Salvage’ and ‘Paper City’.

You can preview all the stories on the comic’s official website. The book should be available at all comic book stores now, or on Amazon.com

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Some new work for Salon, which is a specialty magazine for the salons and stylists. It was a very fun job where the editors and art directors decided to go all retro-stylin’! I did a bunch of illustrations for their special business issue, so each piece covered a specific business tip like making the most of photo shoots, increasing counter sales and recruiting. I also did a 2 page comic spread covering ‘a day in the life’ of a Toronto stylist who was trailed by a business expert who gave him tips on improving his business day.

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Newsarama did a nice interview with my friend Sonny Liew about the upcoming Liquid City comic anthology. It’s a good read, so check it out! My husband and I have a story in the anthology (a whole 17 pages!). The tome is going to weigh in at over 300 pages I hear, but it’s a great collection of rather unique viewpoints from artists and writers mainly from Southeast Asia, so hopefully the size and price aren’t going to put off anyone later! Book comes out in November.

(By the way, the art above is the cover art, by Shelly Wan)

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title 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 ]]> http://blog.charlenechua.com/2008/07/squareenix-vs-sony-the-split/feed/ 2 Character sketches for comic http://blog.charlenechua.com/2008/06/character-sketches-for-comic/ http://blog.charlenechua.com/2008/06/character-sketches-for-comic/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:33:04 +0000 Charlene Chua http://blog.charlenechua.com/?p=287

Character sketches for a personal comic project I am beginning to draw. Hopefully this one will get finished… eventually. Need help with screentones.

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