So here's the Deal.

I am planning on canceling this blog becuase I just hate having a million websites that I half way use. I have reMINDblog.com active and very busy so please go there if you want to see anything new. Trust me, there is plenty of new stuff over there. I post new pages every Monday and new articles about making graphic novels every Thursday. Check it out! http://remindblog.com/

My other reason for cancelling this one is the fact that I no longer really like Blogger. I am so happy with WordPress that I might as well just keep using it for all my future blogging endeavors. If I choose to start a new personal blog, I guarantee it will be with Wordpress. But then again, every year technology changes so much that you have to keep moving to stay in the game.

Anyway, This will be my last post here. In a few weeks I'll pull the plug on http://jason-brubaker.blogspot.com so get it while the gettin's good. Whatever that means. And go to reMINDblog for any future anything from me.

It was fun while it lasted.

- Jason

reMIND - Spread 10

Here is Spread 10 but very small.  I have a large version of it with commentary on my new blog at:

reMINDblog.com

reMINDblog has moved to reMINDblog.com

Hey all! This blog has been moved to a WordPress blog which means if you want to keep following the progress of reMIND then go to reMINDblog.com from now on.

You can keep following this blog which will be a random art blog but I assure you that it will be very random in subject and posting dates. 

I hope you enjoy where reMINDblog is going. I will keep posting Mondays and Thursdays on the new blog, only at http://reMINDblog.com!.

- Jason

Making Your Own Comic Font

This article has been moved to it's new home at the link below:

http://www.remindblog.com/2010/01/14/making-your-own-comic-font/

Publish a graphic novel?

Publish a graphic novel?

Most people look at me cross-eyed when I tell them my dream to publish my graphic novel. Most of the time I have to explain what a graphic novel is before I can continue describing my fantasy.  Then there are those who think I'm just a dreamer who's never going to finish because I've been working on this crazy side project ever since they can remember.

Well, now I can proudly just give them my blog address and keep my mouth shut.  

But posting my pages online has been a whole new adventure.  I can honestly say I'm terrified of what people will say when they see what I've been meticulously knit picking for the last 3 years of my life.  I just started using Google Analytics last week and can't even concentrate anymore while at work.  Every second I'm checking my stats.  Just yesterday I realized it only updates once a day.  What a relief.  Now I only check it in the morning. But that doesn't stop me from looking at my rankings on Comic Blog Elite.  At some point I figure it will all get out of my system and I'll be able to log onto a computer again without checking my feedback.  

 

Yesterday was rough.  I tried to pretend it didn't matter and I ended up with a headache and a stomachache. 

Progress is progress

These last few months I've set aside reMIND and focused on finishing up my old Phobos comics. It's a joy to tap into those old pages and try to spruce them up with some new dialogue and possibly new drawings. Phobos 5 had a major retooling; scrapping almost three quarters of the original comic drawn back in 1994 and adding new major moments to the story. Talk about a George Lucas moment. Sometimes I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels working on Phobos again.  After all it's not really my best work and I don't want to showcase it.  I guess I just need closure in order to fully move on to my new projects.

Because of this need to complete Phobos, I'm totally feeling like I'm dropping the ball on reMIND.  One of my goals is to submit reMIND to the Xeric Foundation to try and get a grant to help pay for the printing.  The next submission deadline is March 31st, so I have five months to get as much coloring finished before I submit.

If anyone is confused at what Phobos is, it's a comic I started in high school that got picked up and published and then cancelled shortly after.  I had five issues finished that were shelved for over a decade. Four of them were never seen.  Now that I've been trying to find my place in the graphic novel world I decided to reprint Phobos to learn how to publish and sell comics.  I've never published a graphic novel before so I brought back Phobos in attempt to learn printing, marketing, and selling.  It's been a great learning experience and I've spent way more money then I've brought in but I'm slowly whittling down this giant log of confusion into something I am starting to understand.

On a different note, my Man Baby picture finally made it on the ManBabies.com site.  It looks like it was there for a while but I only found out today. Here's the link: Manbabies.com.