Totally Biased- General Grudge

  That's right, it is time for another TOTALLY BIASED comic book review, and today we tackle Gary Shipman's beautifully and wonderfully made comic book TITAN: MOUSE of MIGHT on the first day of its second campaign to raise funds for the sequel.  It's true, the blog is back and in full swing after having to take a back seat while I was doing daily pages for my  Learning how to draw webcomic: WOW POW and BAM!  Hopefully now that I finally have that project finished I can get back to daily blog content again. So with that said- On with the review! Spoiler alert: It's a darn good comic book over all. Gary Shipman was another indie creator I did not know anything about other than a couple of appearances on Mike Miller's  Drawn and Quartered , and I had not backed his campaign for the first   Titan Mouse of Might  on Indiegogo until  Edwin Boyette  endorsed the book after enjoying some preview artwork. I backed the book then on his opinion and I am very glad I did because

Add caption Yesterday I got a backer email from Red Rooster's Indiegogo announcing that the second part of the PDF would be emailed to backers that night. I actually got kind of excited,  because as some of you might remember, I enjoyed the art and story of the first PDF  despite some of the problems with lateness and consumer communication with the Breitweisers and their campaign. I joked in a Tweet that a new phrase would rise out of the whole Red Rooster debacle: "Better Late than Red Rooster." The first part of Red Rooster was a big surprise for me personally because even though I had been critical of the Breitweisers and many of the people they associate with,  and I had been vocally critical of the Allegiance Walmart deal and the disappointment many of those books made me feel , I was SHOCKED once I trudged through all of the annoyances of the downloadable comic's DRM to read it and find out that I actually loved the story and the art. But, I am sad to report, p

It is time for another TOTALLY BIASED comic book review and today I will be reviewing the excellent KAMEN AMERICA by  TIM LIM  and writer  Mark Pellegrini . Kamen America was a pleasant surprise to me and turned out to be one of the best Indie comic books I have bought and read in years. In fact, it turned out to be one of my favorite comic books ever and I am very glad I took a chance on supporting it, after deciding to do so while writing my  Soulfinder  review which was drawn by the same artist, although that book was drawn in a totally different style. Kamen America was originally funded on  KICKSTARTER and I missed out on it the first go around because I assumed that I would not like the book based on the art style. I have notoriously always had a prejudice towards Anime/manga style comic books and more often than not assumed they were not for me. Don't ask me why, but in the past most books using such a style just never clicked for me personally. So that prejudice, along wit

So it has been about two months since I did my  first sketchbook video and  BLOG POST about my attempt to try and relearn drawing after being frustrated and tired and quitting around twenty years ago. Things have , as I am sure you can imagine, been up and down since then. I've made some improvements and also hit my own share of roadblocks, but for the most part I feel I have been improving and having fun. I just thought I would make a quick blog post and share the new sketchbook video and a couple of scans of drawings. I recommend  clicking on the video and watching it on YouTube instead of embedded because I have not figured out how to make it a proper viewing size in the blog yet. 😀 I mentioned drawing a comic for the blog in my last sketchbook update and as you can see in the video I did do about five pages. The original plan was to do the comic as a training exercise and to also show off the plot for a very original idea I had for a book. I wanted to at

Another day and another Totally Biased Comic Book review! Today I will be reviewing "The Napalm Brothers" by  Six Combat Scale ! Sorry I do not know his real name, and the book did not have a credits page that I could find, so I will have to use his Twitter handle. I backed The Napalm Brothers on  IndieGoGo  where I got a printed version of the book, and a no-drm PDF copy for just 10$, and that included shipping! I thought for such a reasonable price, and knowing that the book was already finished and would ship very soon, that I did not have much to lose taking a risk and backing the project. This IndideGoGo raised just over 1800$ on 131 individual backers. I really liked and totally respect this business model and hope to see more creators going the route of offering a book that they have at least completed the artwork, coloring, lettering and such and have the book ready to go to the printers. It is better for all involved and I believe brings about more trust fr

This is the Totally Biased Comic Book Review of Soulfinder by Douglas Ernst and Timothy Lim. Souldfinder is a great, original property that is somewhat of an interesting mix of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown and the CW's Supernatural. This graphic novel by  Washington Times  columnist and comic book industry influencer   Doug Ernst  was crowd funded on  IndieGoGo  and raised a respectable 33,237$ for a first time campaign and the creators did an excellent job of fulfilling the project and giving their backers a quality product with no industry drama. I like and follow both  Douglas Ernst  and  Tim Lim  on Twitter. They are both nice guys and treat their fans well and tend to try and stay out of the  "comic book war" dramas that seem a daily part of life on Twitter. I personally feel that Doug sets the standard for how a creator should act "professionally" online and when dealing with the various factions and personalities in the current movement