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Virtual Comic Con & Art Jam!
Tags: Facebook, Comic Con, Art, Jam
Campaign: none
Added: 3/20/2009 1:25 AM PT
Last Modified: 3/20/2009 1:25 AM PT
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Facebook Comic Con is an unofficial virtual comics, animation and media convention bringing together the robust community of industry professionals and fans registered on Facebook.
Facebook Comic Con aspires to give comics fans, creators, dealers and all industry professionals, a well deserved voice of prominence in the emerging communications network. To utilize Facebook tools in order to strengthen comics fandom within the global community.
Upcoming events will include interviews, panel discussions, costume competitions, script & portfolio reviews, film screenings, and more. Guests will include the grandest comics professionals in the field, most of whom are registered on Facebook.
We strive to transform Facebook Comic Con into a venue for all comics creators. To promote their work. And to help compensate for conditions which make it difficult for the many creators who find themselves not working in comics today. We believe that in as much as comics properties are on the rise in world culture, so must the lot of comics creators improve so that no one who's contributed to this industry is neglected.
We believe these goals are attainable within the emerging global communications systems, of which Facebook is a leading pioneer.
As an incentive to launch this effort and enlist as many fans and pros as possible, founder Michael Netzer is offering a free digital convention sketch to the first 1,000 members to register at the con and who request a sketch. Requests will be accepted as a wall post on events page for this offer, in this group. Sketches will be uploaded to photos section in low rez web format. High resolution files for printing will be emailed to everyone wishing them.
Talk it up and urge your friends, fellow comics fans and favorite comics professionals, in your friendly network, to join and attend Facebook Comic Con. Take part in celebrating this grand event for the comics community on Facebook.
Facebook Comic Con - Bringing a big day for the comics on Facebook!
Facebook Comic Con was inspired by Ed Reliuga.
Facebook Comic Con is a project now under construction, preparing for a grand gala premiere celebration on the weekend of March 12-15, 2009.
ABOUT FACEBOOK COMIC CON
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=47256529494
GALA PREMIERE | Thurs-Sun, Mar 12-15, 2009
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=49005654494&id=46479664897
GUESTS | Creators, professionals, journalists and promoters
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=47255529494
EXHIBITORS | Publishers, stores, dealers and organizations
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=47691619494
GUEST & EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=63366131619&topic=7395
CREATE YOUR OWN GUEST & EXHIBITOR TABLE
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=49379994494
POWWOW HALL | Panels & Interviews
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63942372515
PREMIERE COSTUME COMPETITION
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=48014919300
PORTFOLIO & SCRIPT REVIEWS
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62560913342
PREMIERE PROGRAM BOOK | Workgroup
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=129354295205
GUEST LOUNGE | Closed area for guests only
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61331624017
MEMBERS MEZZANINE | Open to all members.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=59016592455
PRESS ROOM
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51610092108
1,000 FREE SKETCHES
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61680430615
Invite friends, comics fans and favorite comics professionals in your friendly network to join Facebook Comic Con and take part in the celebration.
INHERENTLY NOTABLE
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=54828152653
An art jam session dedicated to and in appreciation of veteran comics artist DAVE SIMONS. March 12 - June 12.
INHERENTLY NOTABLE is the second virtual Art Jam event @ Facebook Comic Con, dedicated to and in appreciation of veteran comics artist DAVE SIMONS. Please help us in honoring Dave Simons, by sketching your rendition of him and/or any of the many characters which he has worked on. Sketches should be accompanied by the tagline "Inherently Notable" where possible.
Guest professional artists are on hand to advise and critique submissions. The art jam is open to all members of Facebook Comic Con.
ART JAM SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:
1-) Post your art jam sketch for review in the photo section of the event page.
2-) Only post your own art. Joint collaborations okay.
3-) Art can consist of any sketched pieces. Reviews will address the nature of each submission.
4-) Do not post more than THREE (3) drawings for each artist. Artists who post more may have their work removed from review event.
5-) Caption your art as follows: FBCC ART JAM 2 | YOUR NAME | NAME OF EACH IMAGE.
6-) Art will be reviewed in the comments thread of your image.
7-) The review can then be discussed further in the comments thread or a board discussion forum.
GUEST OF HONOR &
HONORARY GUEST REVIEWER:
Dave Simons
SIMONS JAM GUEST REVIEWERS:
Daniel Best, Representative of Inkwell Awards
Bob Shaw, Representative of Comic Art House
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"Dave Simons is an American comic book artist known for his work on Conan, Ghost Rider, Red Sonja and Spider-Man for Marvel Comics and Forgotten Realms for DC Comics. He is also known for commercial storyboard and games artwork work on The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs and Greyhawk Ruins.
Dave Simons grew up in New York and always wanted to be a comic book artist. "I always wanted to do comics since I was about eight years old," Simons said, "so I started making a point of drawing something every day. I figured if I just kept doing that, then eventually I'd get better at it." After a stint in the Coast Guard, and a chance series of meetings with Frank Robbins, Simons elected to undertake formal training to be an artist. As part of his education Simons attended the now legendary art workshops run by Marvel Comics artist John Buscema. It was wile attending these classes that he became friends future comic book artists Ken Landgraf and Armando Gil. It was through Landgraf that Simons produced his first published work. Breaking away from Landgraf, Simons and Gil formed an alliance and friendship that continues to this day.
Approaching then-Marvel editor Rick Marschall at a convention in the late 1970s, Simons was able to get his samples seen and assessed. At the time Marschall was overseeing the black and white magazine line for Marvel and Simons was duly assigned the duty of inking the first issue of the Howard the Duck magazine. After submitting the story Simons was assigned a fill-in Falcon story, which he inked with the assistance of Gil over Sal Buscemas pencils. This marked his first professional work for Marvel and in mainstream comic books.
Simons was then assigned both pencilling and inking jobs for Marvel. One of the artists who's pencils he inked was Gene Colan. "Gene Colan was always my favorite penciler to work on," says Simons today. "That was like a match made in heaven because a lot of people didn't understand Gene's shading. I thought 'this is great, this is a great jumping on point if you're gonna do black and white stuff'." Even Today Colan speaks highly of Simons's talent as an inker. "Do you know how few artists have ever been able to ink my very complex and often inscrutable pencils? Do you know how exquisitely Dave Simon inks my pencils?" says Colan, "I've yet to see anything Dave has done that I haven't loved! Artists and inkers have come and gone but Dave remains today still at the top of his form!" Simons attention to detail came into high demand in the 1980s and his inking credits include artists such as Keith Pollard, Ron Wilson, Frank Miller, John Buscema, Marc Silvestri, Greg LaRoque, John Romita Jr, Ed Hannigan, Walt Simsonson and more. Titles that featured his inking include Thor, The Thing, Marvel Premiere, Night Thrasher, Iron Man, King Conan, Dr Strange, Star Wars, Star Trek, Thundercats and others.
Simons's tenure at Marvel wasn't limited to inking. He proved himself to be a very capable penciler and his pencils and ink combination were featured in titles such as the Spectacular Spider-Man, Team America, What If, Marvel Comics Presents, Bizarre Adventures, Red Sonja, Web Of Spider-Man, King Conan. He also provided cover art to titles such as Power Man & Iron Fist, Ghost Rider, Darkhold, Machine Man, Kull The Conqueror, Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two In One, Crystar, Moon Knight and many others, along with pin-ups for the black and white magazine Savage Sword of Conan. "Pencilling, if you're doing it right," said Simons, "is a much tougher gig than inking. Even though I usually liked to know what was going on, with inking you don't necessarily have to be involved with the story. With pencilling you have to be intimately involved with the story because you're the one who's bringing the writers work and intentions across to the readers, as to what he's trying to communicate there. You have to think of the drama, the camera angles, and the composition, make sure you leave room for the word balloons, all those sorts of things."
Simons' best known Marvel work was his run on the first series of Ghost Rider. His run on the title saw him first inking veteran artist Don Perlin before joining with Bob Budiansky to create one of the best remembered runs of the characters history. Budiansky and Simons worked with writers Roger Stern and J.M. DeMatteis. "The only speed bump we hit in this whole thing was when Simons, who of that team is the unsung hero, left," Budiansky recalls. "He used to come to the office dressed in leather. I mean, this was not an act, he'd come dressed in one of these black leather, zipper jackets. I don't know if he also wore leather pants. He might have worn them. But anyway, the point is, he knew how to ink leather, which was really important for Ghost Rider. So when he left the book we never really were able to replace that look that he gave the book. The rest of the team was all somewhat saddened by his departure." Marvel attempted to duplicate the highly detailed and rendered look that Budiansky and Simons were able to give the character when the character was relaunched in the early 1990s but never quite succeeded.
In the 1990s Simons left Marvel and crossed companies to DC. At DC he worked on titles such as Deathstroke The Terminator, Spelljammers, Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, the latter he inked over Rags Morales's pencils. "I liked the combination of me and Rags Morales" says Simons, "He has that Frazetta thing going on and I was hip to that and tried to bring that out a lot." Simons also worked on a number of cartoon based books during his time at DC and his work is featured in titles such as Cartoon Network Block Party. During this time he also illustrated Roger Rabbit at Disney.
In the late 1990s Simons left the comic book industry and moved into animation. As an artist he provided storyboards to such shows as Captain Planet, Exo-Squad Masters Of The Universe, Zula Patrol, Psi-Kix and Maya and Miguel. Recalls Simons, "The list of shows I've worked on is certainly longer than the list of comic books that I've worked on at this point." Simons also directed the show Spy Dogs and worked again with Gil on this show, hiring him as a storyboard artist. Simons has the distinction of working on both an animated TV program and the comic book spin-off at the same time, this was when he worked on the animated show Courage The Cowardly Dog, which he subsequently drew the DC comic book of the same name.
Simons is known as a creator of characters. He has developed his own co-creation, Beastball Saga, with Sebastian Mondrone. He is also developing a new character, Donna Thyme, with writer Daniel Best.
Simons's most recent work has been on the book Army Of Darkness, along with contributing art to various trading card sets issued by Rittenhouse. He has also contributed art for Dynamic Forces Red Sonja variant cover series and the '100 Hulks' project. Simons is also active with commissions."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Simons)
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