The Wild Bunch

Kim Thompson and me and Jerry Moriarty having a wild time at SPX a few years back. Don't remember who took the pic. Identify yourself!!!

Readers,
I have a new little journal style mini- comic for sale on my new Etsy page:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/CarolTylerComix 

Here's the front cover and page 8 for a sampler.

Backstory: In 2009, I set up a book signing for "You'll Never Know, Book I: A Good & Decent Man" with my Dad at a place near his house - at the Historic Ernie Pyle Boyhood Home & Museum in Dana, Indiana. You know, Ernie Pyle, famous WWII correspondent. I figured we'd sell a million books at the festival, but it turned out to be a real dud. Nobody came. I felt so bad for Dad. Anyway, after he went home, I got out my little index cards and took notes on everything else going (or not going) on from our signing place on Ernie's porch.

If you purchase one of these (limited edition of 20), I will sign, add a little sketch to the back inside cover and mail it to you. Take me up on this deal, because soon enough I'll be back to a big project and won't have time for fun little gigs like this!

Homeroom Hottie

Alex & CBR -- You ROCK!!  Here's a link to an awesome just posted interview. Coming on a day when I'm having a Foreigner marathon in my studio. Double Vision, Head Games, etc. Hot Blooded, Cold as Ice. Hair rock that I didn't really listen to but couldn't avoid hearing back in the day. Inking music.

The T-shirt in the pic says Homeroom Hottie  :)

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31136

Just found out

Thank you Douglas Wolk for rating YNK Book II so favorably (#3) on the time.com Best Graphic Novels of 2010 list!

http://techland.time.com

Sketch to Art

This is an example of how a page looks before it becomes final art. I work on tracing paper first because of the tooth. I like the feel of it. I found a giant stack at a thrift store years ago, so it's the good old kind.

Then I transfer it over to the 1ply plate Strathmore paper and then ink it.

It's always kinda sad, inking over the pencils. But with the way technology has changed, I might be able to do a pencil only book someday.

Both images ©Tyler, 2010