Saturday, April 28, 2012

Linework #3


Max Morris graduated last May, so Kevin and I shared editing duties for this 3rd issue, which is now printed and about to come out any day now. Number 3 is a smaller (8" X 10") than the first two, and has a lot more pages (96). Kevin and I will be at Manifest, Columbia's big street fest, this Friday, May 4th, at the corner of Balbo and Wabash, selling all 3 issues of Linework as well as comics by many other contributors. The third issue will also be for sale at Quimby's and Chicago Comics within the next few weeks.

Here are a few pictures I took this morning:


Front Cover (drawn by me)
Back Cover (Also me)
Endpapers: Max Morris. Flap: me.
Jonathan Wilcox
Marieke McClendon
Joyce Rice
Left: Naji Sierra. Right: Carl Zeller
Here's the list of contributors:

Kyle Harter
David Alvarado
Pete Clodfelter
Michael Paxton
Betty Heredia
Naji Sierra
Carl Zeller
Michelle West
Andy Burkholder
Chris Kerr
Elio
Sam McMorris
Matt Novak
Ivan Brunetti
Max Morris
Erik Lundquist
Kevin Budnik
Joyce Rice
Chris Dazzo
Marieke McClendon
Nick Drnaso
Omar Aweidah
Jonathan Wilcox
Matt Soria
John Gregg
Jazmin Giron
Eric Roesner
Angela Caggiano
Onsmith
Lilli Carre
Paul Nudd
Marc Filerman


So That's it. All caught up. Kevin and I are both graduated now, so this third issue is our last. We'll both be at CAKE on June 16th and 17th selling our own comics and Linework, but after that our editorship is done. It's been great putting these books together, hopefully someone will carry on and make more issues. I dunno...thanks for reading.

Linework #2

By the time the first issue came out, Andy and Madalyn were no longer students at Columbia, and Onsmith was just about to graduate. Kevin Budnik, Max Morris, and I asked Ivan if we could take over editing duties for the second issue. Here's the cover I drew:

Here are some more pictures taken from David Alvarado's blog:

It's a little hard to tell in this photo, but the cover is actually a
semitransparent vellum, and the staircase drawing is underneath that.
Kevin Budnik
Max Morris
Andy Burkholder
Back Cover (Kevin Budnik
Left: Betty Heredia. Right: Paul Nudd.

The second issue came out in Fall 2011, 36 pages, color, 11" X 14". Here's the list of contributors:

Andy Burkholder
Marc Filerman
David Alvarado
Elio
John Gregg
Rachal Duggan
Claire McCarthy
Regina Rotondo
Angela Caggiano
Carl Zeller
Kevin Budnik
Brian Morrison
Eric Roesner
Chris Kerr
Onsmith
Joyce Rice
Liz Gollner
Solange Henson
Naji Sierra
Anna Felger
Nick Drnaso
Vanessa Rago
Michelle West
Kyle Harter
Betty Heredia
Paul Nudd
Omar Aweidah
Jesus Meija
Max Morris


Linework #1

Linework started in Fall 2008 by Ivan Brunetti, and edited by then-students Andy Burkholder, Madalyn Merkey, and Onsmith. I didn't start at Columbia until Fall 2009, so I don't know who first proposed the idea of a student comic anthology. I think it was Ivan's idea and the three editors ran with it. 

Here are a few pictures stolen from David Alvarado's site:

Front Cover (Onsmith)
Left page is David Alvarado. Right page is me.
Back Cover (Max Morris)

The first issue came out in the Fall of 2010, 32 pages, color, 11" X 14". Here's a full list of contributors:

Elio
Onsmith
Marc Filerman
Jonathan Wilcox
Kevin Budnik
Esther Kim
Vanessa Rago
Rachal Duggan
Kiyomi Negi-Tran
Regina Rotondo
Jen Welsing
Joyce Rice
Claire McCarthy
Naji Sierra
Madalyn Merkey
Mandy Heckman
Steve Mancione
Michelle Wang
Angela Caggiano
David Alvarado
Nick Drnaso
Betty Heredia
Andy Burkholder
Michelle West
Tannar Veatch
Eric Ellis
Max Morris


Back From The Dead

OK. So this blog was started in 2008 in preparation for the first issue of Linework. The old editors of the magazine created this blog and then graduated, and it's been dormant ever since. A lot's happened with Linework since then, but you would barely know it with a quick search on the internet, so I'll start from the beginning and try to cover everything that's happened over the last 3.5 years.