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Rassum frassum

July 7th, 2010 | by DGC
Rassum frassum

Another week and no strip… But perchance a sketch tide you over. On a parallel world things for me have been in bit of a tizzy and a dozy which has affected the progress of This EMPIRE.  This one features Niall, Jamal, and Trent hanging out at the flat. Mmh, budding bromance?

By the way, courtesy of Justin Yang from the Raleigh Sketch Jam there it a face book page featuring works from those sessions.

Raleigh Sketch Jam is a sketch group that meets weekly. What started as a couple of friends meeting to draw and appease their caffeine fix slowly turned into a open community. Drawings are drawn, coffee is imbibed, supplies/advice are shared, and the conversation never runs dry (no matter how dorky).

All are welcome to join whether you are an artist, art enthusiast, beginner, student, or your name is “Art.”We normally meet every Wednesday @ The Morning Times Cafe from 7pm- 10 pm.

Hopefully you can make it out, good times all around.

We hope to be back to our regular programming soon. Hopefully these sketches, and posts have kept things still interesting.

Thank you for reading

Regards

DGC

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New Alliances

June 9th, 2010 | by DGC
New Alliances

Oh yeah, new strip is up.  Last week I said, “This EMPIRE does go down nice with the morning coffee and donuts.” Bah!!! Anytime is a good time to read this comic. I just need to make sure I am updating on my regular schedule :)

I didn’t make to this year’s Heroes Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Aw shucks… and a whole mess of expletives. Here’s an link their blog, this year’s write up was by Dustin Harbin “budding cartoonist, or aspiring cartoonist.”

Thank you for reading

Regards

DGC

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So Epic

June 3rd, 2010 | by DGC
So Epic

Later in the day than expect, but the strip is up. This EMPIRE does go down nice with the morning coffee and donuts. Calling Trey Trent my “crack dealer” does have certain enthusiasm in it. Come on comic books (sequential story telling, words & pictures) “OMG THIS IS LIKE A CRACK ADDICTION”

“Comics Rule Everything Around Me”

Quote courtesy of Becky Cloonan; her recent works are artist on DEMO Volume II with writer Brian Wood, and the web comic K.G.B. with Hwan Cho.

Scott Pilgrim movie trailer #2 release date August 13, 2010

Hopefully this will give you the viewers more knowledge about a great story that is wrapping up on 7/20 before the movie hits.

Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni Press graphic novels)

Edgar Wright (Director, co-writer for the screenplay)

Heroes Convention 2010 June 4th – 6th

Spoon!!!!  Heroes’ convention is this weekend. In my relative short existence this has been the only comic book + random goodness convention I ever been to… For shame I know, I have a much skewed perspective (i.e. limited view) on conventions with the many others stretched across the States, and overseas.

But this will always hold special place for me, *sniff* shed a single tear :’-(.  Shelton Drum and the staff put on an amazing show achem, “my skew perspective.”

Will I be there, I really don’t know, I haven’t been in several years due things always went awry when I wanted to go. But please check out the Indie Island many, many talented people will be presenting their work.

By the way Daniel Lecky will be walking around with a book he’s putting together with some others. How to spot Daniel Lecky?  I know I know it’s the blurred War Machine costume, but maybe he will suit up again for the convention. Yes he made his own War Machine costume.

Perchance if you spot this geek there, say hello, I don’t bite, but I might get overly excited if you tell me you read This EMPIRE.

Thank you for reading.

Regards

DGC

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Sketch Day

May 19th, 2010 | by DGC
Sketch Day

It’s another great Wednesday, but no strip update.  However there is a sketch post from the weekly Sketch Jams I have been attending. This sketch features the terrific trio that runs “Hellmouths” Jamal’s recent find in his walks around the city.  The store is managed by Trent, Eshe, and Jill.  Hellmouths is part comic/game shop, book/music store, coffee/bistro café; a cornucopia of print + drink + online media.  The place is still ambiguous but I could say this is the general direction for this business establishment.

Thank you for reading

DGC

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World’s Collide

May 5th, 2010 | by DGC
World’s Collide

Greetings,

1st plug…

I forgot to mention last week to get ready for Free Comic Book Day on May 1, 2010.

“Free Comic Book Day is a single day – the first Saturday in May each year – when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE* to anyone who comes into their stores.”

So next year marked your calenders for May 2011.

I picked up some free comics, and caught up on some comics that went to the wayside.  Good times all around.

Egads moments:

The Flash #1, Barry Allen is back with “The Brightest Day.”

Invincible #71 Part one of the Viltumite War.

The New Avengers #64, Siege tie-in.

2nd plug…

Multiplex, by Gordon McAlpin

#468: It’s a Miracle

Notes from the Manager

“After How to Train Your Dragon had been out for a couple of weeks, all the glowing reviews finally got me to check the movie out. It wasn’t that I didn’t think it would be good; I just didn’t expect it to be very good. I mean… it’s Dreamworks Animation. I love (and own) Kung Fu Panda, but every other movie of theirs I’ve seen has just been pretty good — at best — just barely worth watching, nevermind buying on DVD.

To my surprise, I didn’t just think How to Train Your Dragon was a good cartoon. I flat-out loved it. Yet to say that How to Train Your Dragon is Dreamworks Animation’s best movie doesn’t even begin to explain how much I love it. It — like my favorite Pixar movie, The Incredibles; and only a handful of others — is what I consider to be a perfect movie.”

DGC commentary

Note in panels 5 – 9 are similar experiences I had seeing animated films The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Tokyo Godfathers, Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke), and Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) to name a few.  Or maybe I said too much?  If we’re happen to be watching this movie and I am having the same experience please, please reserve all commitments until we’re outside the theater because of any negative comments might have me doing the same thing Jason Atwood does in panel 10.

3rd plug…

Happy Birthday, PvP, by Scott Krutz

May 4, 2010 was PvP’s 12th anniversary, the strip started May 4th, 1998.

Goodness Gracious 12 years…

Thank you for reading.

DGC

It’s Wednesday – “My weekly comic book romance”

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