Post by dave! on Jan 20, 2007 16:58:44 GMT -5
Hey, SequA!
If it's your first time here, welcome! If you were at the first meeting Friday, enjoy your new forum! I'm your host, Comic's Dave Lanphear. Put your feet up. Relax. Enjoy my Craig Ferguson riffs. You too, ladies!
SequA is the brain-child of Krishna Sadasivam and Brandon McKinney, and they are the current sponsors. You see them at AI-Tampa, give them a big thanks!
The first meeting was Friday, January 19th in room 232.
We had good attendance; over 20 people showed up (that's a rough count). Everyone was invited to provide their e-mail, which I expect was picked up by Krishna or Brandon, and I'll get that list soon. That'll give us direct contact info for everyone, plus firm up the attendance count.
I didn't take notes, but some ideas were spitballed.
SequA Club Organization
It was suggested by Krishna that SequA have officers who maintain the function of the club. Krishna and Brandon will assist the officers because they recognize every member of SequA has a busy life between classes, work and family. But he recognizes that the club should belong to the school members, so he's asked us to consider nominating people to be officers for the club. Give that some thought, folks!
It was also suggested we develop a t-shirt for the club. (Jeff suggested that, I think). Plus, a logo. Krishna thought that might be fun as a contest, to open it to everyone to submit a design for logo and t-shirt, and then put them to a vote.
A blog was suggested to give us all a common place to coordinate, and Wallace and I stepped up to help arrange that. After some initial discussion what the site should contain, we realized a forum would handle SequA's needs better, so Wallace put that together. I'm in here writing our initial content this weekend!
Brandon suggested a secret hand-shake, too.
Recommended Reads
We discussed the comic book medium in general, and that the popular genre is super hero. So, outside that genre, Krishna sought some books members liked. Suggestions included:
Making Comics by Scott McCloud
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Bone by Jeff Smith
Maus by Art Spiegleman
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
Ghost in the Shell by Masumune Shiro
DragonBall Z by Akira Toriyama
At that point, we agreed there were lots more books we could discuss and recommend, so we thought about creating a list of Recommended Reads online. That'll now appear in the forum as a separate board, which will begin soon.
Sponsorship & sponsor's backgrounds
Krishna & Brandon are SequA's sponsors at Art Institute. I'll have them write a little about what their sponsorship will mean to SequA members, and what resources that may offer the club.
They then gave us a little background on their career in comics (which I'm fleshing out a little more today):
Brandon McKinney is a published comic book artist, including artist on Chronicle's Big Little Books licensed adaptations of Star Wars: Episodes I and II, artist on Warren Ellis' Switchblade Honey graphic novel (published by AiT-PlanetLar), artist on Planet of the Capes mini-series (also from AiT/PlanetLar), and artist on City of Heroes' promotional comic. Brandon's also published by Dark Horse as a penciler on Godzilla, has written and penciled stories on Elfquest, and has written, penciled & inked a 3-issue Image series titled Journeyman. I embellished that a bit to include a 2-issue run on Malibu Comics' Return to Macross, a licensed Robotech comic. Plus there's several other unpublished works I know Brandon's done; Captain Anything, and Chainsaw Bob (based on animation shorts he's produced).
Krishna Sadasivam is a blogger and webcomic artist. His site www.PCWeenies.org has run a comic panel for 8 years, and some of the comics have also been published in national magazines EE Times, "What PC?", and online at News.com and CNet. I found these additional links for more on Krishna's professional career:
www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020215S0043
www.intuitive.com/blog/blogger_interview_cartoonist_krishna_sadasivam.html
Expected goals for SequA
Many of the members in the informal discussion expressed a desire or need to see how comic books are made. There's an expectation that some training will be provided on the specific disciplines, including writing, penciling, inking, coloring, lettering, and pre-press. I chimed in that some professionals in each of these disciplines are available locally, and I'll work on getting them to SequA events in future.
SequA would also like to take field trips to see comics-related events. Krishna recommended attending the MegaCon, a comic book convention in Orlando from February 16-18 at the Orange County Convention Center.
Attending MegaCon 2007
Krishna's recommendation took us directly into the topic of attending MegaCon 2007. The bonus for us is Friday February 16th is a school holiday, so classes won't interfere if we decide we want to attend Friday. We visited the site to provide some details:
According to www.megaconvention.com, tickets are:
$45.80 for all three days - ($43 plus 6.5% sales tax)
$20.24 for one day admission - $19 plus 6.5% sales tax).
Next meeting, we'll be firming up details of who will attend MegaCon, what day we'll go, and who will offer cars for carpooling SequA members. We'll organize our attendance as a one-day event, but that's open to discussion if anyone wants to stay longer.
SequA Meeting Schedule
For the time, the most convenient time to have the full participation of our experienced sponsors is Fridays between noon and 1pm, and in room 232. This meeting time and place may change with the Spring 2007 quarter, and this will be posted in the EVENTS & MEETINGS forum.
Afterwards, there were a lot of informal discussions; people attending this first meeting were evidently excited and enlightened at the number of people with interest in reading comics, creating comics, and learning comics and sequential art here at Art Institute of Tampa. We eventually had to scoot out of room 232 to make way for Brandon's Pre-visualization class that starts at 1pm, but the discussions continued on well after.
Postscripts
All in all, not having an agenda when we first met, quite a bit was accomplished!
Welcome to your new club, SequA members!
And thanks again to Krishna and Brandon for organizing it for us!
Moderator Contact
If I missed any details, please contact me at dave.lanphear@gmail.com. I'll be glad to update this post.
If it's your first time here, welcome! If you were at the first meeting Friday, enjoy your new forum! I'm your host, Comic's Dave Lanphear. Put your feet up. Relax. Enjoy my Craig Ferguson riffs. You too, ladies!
SequA is the brain-child of Krishna Sadasivam and Brandon McKinney, and they are the current sponsors. You see them at AI-Tampa, give them a big thanks!
The first meeting was Friday, January 19th in room 232.
We had good attendance; over 20 people showed up (that's a rough count). Everyone was invited to provide their e-mail, which I expect was picked up by Krishna or Brandon, and I'll get that list soon. That'll give us direct contact info for everyone, plus firm up the attendance count.
I didn't take notes, but some ideas were spitballed.
SequA Club Organization
It was suggested by Krishna that SequA have officers who maintain the function of the club. Krishna and Brandon will assist the officers because they recognize every member of SequA has a busy life between classes, work and family. But he recognizes that the club should belong to the school members, so he's asked us to consider nominating people to be officers for the club. Give that some thought, folks!
It was also suggested we develop a t-shirt for the club. (Jeff suggested that, I think). Plus, a logo. Krishna thought that might be fun as a contest, to open it to everyone to submit a design for logo and t-shirt, and then put them to a vote.
A blog was suggested to give us all a common place to coordinate, and Wallace and I stepped up to help arrange that. After some initial discussion what the site should contain, we realized a forum would handle SequA's needs better, so Wallace put that together. I'm in here writing our initial content this weekend!
Brandon suggested a secret hand-shake, too.
Recommended Reads
We discussed the comic book medium in general, and that the popular genre is super hero. So, outside that genre, Krishna sought some books members liked. Suggestions included:
Making Comics by Scott McCloud
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Bone by Jeff Smith
Maus by Art Spiegleman
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
Ghost in the Shell by Masumune Shiro
DragonBall Z by Akira Toriyama
At that point, we agreed there were lots more books we could discuss and recommend, so we thought about creating a list of Recommended Reads online. That'll now appear in the forum as a separate board, which will begin soon.
Sponsorship & sponsor's backgrounds
Krishna & Brandon are SequA's sponsors at Art Institute. I'll have them write a little about what their sponsorship will mean to SequA members, and what resources that may offer the club.
They then gave us a little background on their career in comics (which I'm fleshing out a little more today):
Brandon McKinney is a published comic book artist, including artist on Chronicle's Big Little Books licensed adaptations of Star Wars: Episodes I and II, artist on Warren Ellis' Switchblade Honey graphic novel (published by AiT-PlanetLar), artist on Planet of the Capes mini-series (also from AiT/PlanetLar), and artist on City of Heroes' promotional comic. Brandon's also published by Dark Horse as a penciler on Godzilla, has written and penciled stories on Elfquest, and has written, penciled & inked a 3-issue Image series titled Journeyman. I embellished that a bit to include a 2-issue run on Malibu Comics' Return to Macross, a licensed Robotech comic. Plus there's several other unpublished works I know Brandon's done; Captain Anything, and Chainsaw Bob (based on animation shorts he's produced).
Krishna Sadasivam is a blogger and webcomic artist. His site www.PCWeenies.org has run a comic panel for 8 years, and some of the comics have also been published in national magazines EE Times, "What PC?", and online at News.com and CNet. I found these additional links for more on Krishna's professional career:
www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020215S0043
www.intuitive.com/blog/blogger_interview_cartoonist_krishna_sadasivam.html
Expected goals for SequA
Many of the members in the informal discussion expressed a desire or need to see how comic books are made. There's an expectation that some training will be provided on the specific disciplines, including writing, penciling, inking, coloring, lettering, and pre-press. I chimed in that some professionals in each of these disciplines are available locally, and I'll work on getting them to SequA events in future.
SequA would also like to take field trips to see comics-related events. Krishna recommended attending the MegaCon, a comic book convention in Orlando from February 16-18 at the Orange County Convention Center.
Attending MegaCon 2007
Krishna's recommendation took us directly into the topic of attending MegaCon 2007. The bonus for us is Friday February 16th is a school holiday, so classes won't interfere if we decide we want to attend Friday. We visited the site to provide some details:
According to www.megaconvention.com, tickets are:
$45.80 for all three days - ($43 plus 6.5% sales tax)
$20.24 for one day admission - $19 plus 6.5% sales tax).
Next meeting, we'll be firming up details of who will attend MegaCon, what day we'll go, and who will offer cars for carpooling SequA members. We'll organize our attendance as a one-day event, but that's open to discussion if anyone wants to stay longer.
SequA Meeting Schedule
For the time, the most convenient time to have the full participation of our experienced sponsors is Fridays between noon and 1pm, and in room 232. This meeting time and place may change with the Spring 2007 quarter, and this will be posted in the EVENTS & MEETINGS forum.
Afterwards, there were a lot of informal discussions; people attending this first meeting were evidently excited and enlightened at the number of people with interest in reading comics, creating comics, and learning comics and sequential art here at Art Institute of Tampa. We eventually had to scoot out of room 232 to make way for Brandon's Pre-visualization class that starts at 1pm, but the discussions continued on well after.
Postscripts
All in all, not having an agenda when we first met, quite a bit was accomplished!
Welcome to your new club, SequA members!
And thanks again to Krishna and Brandon for organizing it for us!
Moderator Contact
If I missed any details, please contact me at dave.lanphear@gmail.com. I'll be glad to update this post.