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comixology:

A comiXologist Recommends A Comic That Brings Them Joy:
Jonah Chuang recommends Starlight

If you like comic book heroes and Pixar’s Up, this book is for you. Starlight made me tear up more than any book has in a long time. It’s the heartwarming story of Duke McQueen, the Flash Gordon/Adam Strange/John Carter-ish man from Earth who traveled to a distant planet and saved the universe, but has since come home, gotten married, had kids, and then aged forty years. Now his kids are grown, his wife has passed, and everyone thinks Duke is a crazy old man who imagined his ‘adventures’. Even his kids avoid him. All this changes, though, when a young visitor from the world Duke saved comes to ask for his help once again.

This is such an interesting and spin on the classic space adventurer story. These iconic heroes are the quintessential alpha males— cocky, strong, fast, proud, full of life, and steeped in glory and adoration— so you’d never think of them as old, sad, and lonely men, but that’s what happens to Duke in this story.

Goran Parlov’s artwork is so great for this book. It’s really grand and gorgeous, while being minimalistic enough to be reminiscent of the style of those old space stories. If you’ve read Fury MAX, you know what I’m talking about. Parlov really knows how to cast the stillness in the lonely moments, and bring out the pomp in the great fight scenes. There’s so much life to each image, you can almost hear the soundtrack playing over it.

Starlight’s a pretty great book for the holiday season. Assuming your holidays are anything like mine, there’s also very little snow, lots of family tension, and some really great emotional victories that make you tear up and feel like there are still great things in the world.

STARLIGHT!

[Read Starlight on comiXology]

Jonah Chuang is a Production Coordinator Assistant at comiXology and aspiring disciple of Mark Millar.

gunshowcomic:

Thank you thank you thank you thank you. Thank you for stickin with me for however long you have stuck here. Gunshow was fun to do but I gotta do something else. I just have to. Thank you. Some important links for you: 

•my main site, will soon be a easy way to check on what im doing. 

•BACK is my other comic I am still doing with Anthony. We’re just getting started with it. 

•Pinocchio, a comic adaptation. While not as dark as Gunshow could be, it’s a very interesting story I think. Which is why I’m doing it. 

•Midnite Surprise, art blog and will probably post dumb one-off comics off and on. 

•My twitter, a good way to follow what I’m doing and will be doing. And again.. Thank you.

diaemyung:

Funny thing is I was the worst student when I was in Korean Art School. I still remember my teacher told me that I don’t have any talent of art and I should give up to go to art college. She said like that just because I didn’t follow her education like sitting on the chair and sketch an apple for a whole class. She didn’t even teach me how to use materials, she just gave me a sample drawing and copy it exactly the same for two months. I thought it wasted my time, so I quit it and started to learn by myself.

Of course, I’m not a perfect teacher or artist. It’s just my opinion.