Tiny Onion is busy, busy, busy. James Tynion IV’s creative studio just announced their NYCC plans, which include the PRINT newspaper, and a new initiative they are calling the “Artist-in-Residence Program.” The program’s first enrollees are colorist Jordy Bellaire and letterer Aditya Vidhikaru, both recognized masters of the craft and regular collaborators on the Tiny Onion Project. However, as part of this program, the two will also develop their own original series, which will be published by Image Comics. Details are below.
Tiny Onion says: “Our goal for this initiative is to create a better version of ‘exclusive’ contracts that not only provide stability and guaranteed work for talent without all the usual red tape, but also to To celebrate him as a multi-hyphenate creator. It is an important member of the tiny onion ecosystem. ”
Tiny Onion Editorial Director Eric Harburn said of the program: “We believe that comics are a team sport and that every creator featured on our books deserves to be treated as a world-class talent and use their skills and passion to move our medium forward. ”. With our artist-in-residence initiative, we plan to shine a spotlight on the unsung heroes of comic book creation and give them a platform to create their best work yet. ”
Portrait of Jordy Bellaire by Fernando Blanco
Jordie Bellaire is an Eisner Award-winning colorist based in Portland, Oregon. Geordie is best known for his color art in The Nice House on the Lake, Phantom Road, The Vision, Pretty Deadly, and Tiny Onion titles w0rldtr33, as well as guest contributions to TheDepartment of Truth. well known. She is also a writer for series such as Redlands and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Portrait of Aditya Vidikar, by Aditya Vidikar
Aditya Bidikar is an Eisner Award-nominated letterwriter and writer based in India. Aditya’s recent lettering work includes Aquaman: Andromeda, 20th Century Men, and Tiny Onion titles TheDepartment of Truth, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, w0rldtr33, and Spectregraph. Contains.
As for NYCC’s plans, Tiny Onion will have a double-wide booth at NYCC and launch Tiny Onion Presents (TOP), a print newspaper covering comics available for just $1 per issue. Popverse had more information.
The newspaper, titled Tiny Onion Presents (TOP for short), is what the studio describes as a “festival of the printed word,” featuring retrospectives of the comic and previous Tiny Onions and examinations of the success of the indie production. It is a mixture of completely new articles such as. An interview with publisher Silver Sprocket and creators Josh Hixson and Tyler Boss…
“TOP serves many functions,” Tiny Onion founder James Tynion IV told Popverse. “We wanted people to feel the personality of the Tiny Onion team. We wanted to create a fun place where people could be the first to hear about our next big swing. We wanted to create a product for comic conventions that felt truly exclusive and special, but most importantly, showed readers how much we love the medium of comics as a whole. That’s why I created TOP.
This edition includes Razorblades Presents Sunday Scaries, featuring new horror comics by Brian Revell, Caroline Cash, Courtney Menard, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Jenna Cha, Josh Simmons, Marie Enger, and Sam Alden. ” is also included.
All this for 1 dollar? It’s coming in!
As mentioned earlier this week, print comics journalism also includes The Comics Courier, a collection of serious comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb. The Kickstarter for it has already doubled in funding, so let me tell you, print is back, baby!
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