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Upcoming Art Gallery Show: We Love Webcomics
Piximix is proud to present We Love Webcomics, a group art show celebrating the art of webcomics at the Double Punch Gallery in San Francisco, running from August 6 to September 10, 2011. A wide assortment of popular webcomic artists will be providing prints and original art and merchandise for display and sale at this special event. For the latest updates, please visit the official site at http://www.welovewebcomics.com
The world of comics is changing. In the past decade, the web has exploded with thousands upon thousands of comics in an absolutely staggering range of styles and subjects. Webcomics have created a rich new space for both artists and readers alike.
Whether it's a seasoned comic artist looking to take a chance on personal and experimental work or a new artist who simply wants to share their work with friends, the internet has lowered the barriers for comic publishing and allowed creators to release their work quickly and easily directly to readers. With this ease of publishing and unparalleled freedom of creative expression, the browser is quickly replacing the newspaper and publications as the source for the latest must-read comics. Add to that the ability for readers to spread their favorites like wildfire across the internet and you have a powerful environment for independent content to thrive.
It's an exciting time to be following comics and we're thrilled to be able to present such a talented and diverse selection of artists and their work in a unique gallery setting. Featured artists include John Allison (Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery), Scott Campbell (GREAT SHOWDOWNS, Double Fine Action Comics), Rebecca Clements (KinokoFry, Ruffle Hall), Audra Furuichi(nemu*nemu), Andy Ristaino (Skronked), Natasha Allegri (Pancake Pancake Pancake), Nathan Stapley (My Comic About Me), KC Green (Gunshow), Michael Jonathan (Eros Inc., Quail),Daniel M. Davis (Monster Commute), Sarah Sobole (Doctor Cat, Cat Ghost), and Kyle Hoyt (Appley Rotten, Pixipets).
Located within San Francisco's premier designer toy and character art destination, Double Punch, We Love Webcomics is a fun and compelling snapshot of the online comic scene.
SHOW INFORMATION:
We Love Webcomics
August 6 - September 10, 2011
Opening Night: August 6, 7pm
Double Punch Gallery
1821 Powell St.
San Francisco, CA 94133
11:00am-7:00pm Mon. - Sat.
11:00am-6:00pm Sun.
email: contact@welovewebcomics.com
MEDIA INQUIRIES:
For additional show information or to inquire about artist interviews or quotes, please contact Kyle Hoyt via email at kyle@piximix.com.
ARTIST BIOS:
John Allison
Self taught artist and non-self taught writer John Allison accidentally became one of the first webcomic artists with his daily Bobbins strip starting in 1998. He rose to prominence in 2002 with Scary Go Round, which ran for seven years and spawned eight printed collections. During this time he designed a lot of tshirts that people really liked, and a few that people just didn't understand at all. Despite giving away almost everything he has ever drawn for free on the internet, he's earned a living for eight years this way. His current project is called Bad Machinery and it's about mystery solving children. You'll like it!
Scott Campbell
Scott C is sometimes known as Scott Campbell. His watercolor paintings can be found in magazines, comics, children's books, video games, and galleries around the world. The GREAT SHOWDOWNS and Double Fine Action Comics are his two internet ventures. GREAT SHOWDOWNS are a series of cute little smiling watercolor paintings depicting famous moments of tension in film. Double Fine Action Comics is a weekly webcomic strip telling the tales of various little characters, including a Knight, Muscleman, and 2-headed Baby. Some of his non-internet projects include the children's book Zombie In Love from Simon&Schuster, and the video games Psychonauts and Brutal Legend from Double Fine Productions. A newly released art book from Insight Editions entitled AMAZING EVERYTHING collects many of his paintings to date. Scott lives in New York City in a building made of bricks.
Rebecca Clements
Rebecca Clements is a cartoonist/illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. She has several webcomics including KinokoFry, Me and G, and Secret Mystery Diary, as well as a kids comic,Ruffle Hall. Her work tends to be cute, colorful, full of chickens, ladybugs and bees and other such things, and full of charm and imagination. Her diary comics are as imaginary as often as they are true. She has a strong enthusiasm for environmental sustainability, social justice, etc and this comes across in her work (in particular, The Donation Project which aims to encourage people to support the things they want to exist in life, and BEC, a TED-inspired social comic featuring ideas from her readers about how they've improved their lives). Tea drinking, video games and children's books are large sources of inspiration.
Rebecca lived and worked in Japan for a number of years before becoming a full-time cartoonist. She's worked on video games, book illustration, animation storyboards and many other things. She is currently working on a children's book. She wants to see you smile.
Audra Furuichi
Hailing from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii, Audra Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga are the co-creators of nemu*nemu, an original online webcomic that has been running since 2006. The duo are inspired by not only anime and manga, but Saturday morning cartoons, Sunday funnies, and a good dose of "small kid time" nostalgia.
nemu*nemu follows the charmed lives of two tween girls, Ani and Kana, and their magical stuffed toy pup pals, Anpan and Nemu. Their adventures go just about anywhere imagination can take them; including (but not limited to) the skies via a flying box, a water world guided by an over-sized duck, and outer universes with another mysterious pup named Enchilada and his bird companion, Pollo.
Audra runs the show, publishing new comics tri-weekly while Scott assists in the shadows. She is also a past recipient of the Charles M. Schulz Award for Excellence in College Cartooning for her previous work, CultureSHOCK!.
Andy Ristaino
Andy Ristaino is currently the lead designer on the cartoon network animated show Adventure Time. When not working on animation he can be found drawing comics in his spare time. He has had several graphic novels published through SLG including Escape From Dullsville and The Babysitter as well as had comics printed in numerous anthologies including Popgun vol. 4, Meathaus S.O.S., and Nickelodeon Magazine. You can see more of his comic work on the web at skronked.blogspot.com.
Natasha Allegri
Natasha Allegri lives in Burbank, California and works two cubicles down from Andy Ristaino at Cartoon Network on the hit show, Adventure Time. She has a cat named Pancake, who she frequently features in webcomics on her blog, Pancake Pancake Pancake. Pancake likes her pet mouse, things that are smaller than her, and scratching up expensive sofas. Pancake also likes treats, even though they make her FAT.
Nathan Stapley
Nathan Stapley was Born in California, attended Academy of Art in San Francisco, worked as concept artist for Lucas Arts and Double Fine Productions and has been uploading web comics since 2004. He was a member of the comic “collective” Hickee, published by Alternative Comics and has shown his paintings in galleries across the USA since 2005 or so. Nathan Stapley hopes you are doing good.
KC Green
KC Green does the webcomic Gunshow, which is written as one word… usually. He currently resides in Massachusetts, where there's a river he thinks about living in. However, it's too expensive, so he sticks to this hollowed out tree he found. He works as a printer for Topatoco and just ate a bucket of chicken. Why did he do that? He stays up too late.
Michael Jonathan
Michael Jonathan is a twenty-six year old writer/illustrator living in Los Angeles with his awesome girlfriend, Nan Lawson, and two cats, Milhouse and Dodger. He is the creator of Eros Inc., an online comic about cupids living and working in Los Angeles, which has been running since 2008. He is also the creator of the diary webcomic series Michael Jonathan is Jewish, about his somewhat recent trip to Israel, and Quail an indie-folk, kung fu musical. When he's not working on comics, he is an executive/writer's assistant for the MTV show Good Vibes.
Daniel M. Davis
Daniel m. Davis is a Peoria, Arizona based illustrator and co-founder of Steam Crow LLC, creators of Good Monster Goods.
Daniel has been seeing monsters since he was little, and had an "imaginary friend" in the summer of 1973 who promptly stole his pie. Since then he has illustrated, written and published 5 books about imaginary beasties, all crafted in his vintage style. He also creates the MonsterCommute.com webcomic, a dystopian monster adventure.
Daniel is also the founder of Tiny Army, a Phoenix based illustration group dedicated to bringing together local illustrators to share strategies for success.
Sarah Sobole
Sarah Sobole is an artist from Cleveland, Ohio. She just recently started posting her comics online. Sarah is currently drawing Doctor Cat, a weekly webcomic about a cute doctor who happens to be a cat. She also posts a variety of comics on her other website, Cat Ghost.
Kyle Hoyt
Kyle is a San Francisco based designer, illustrator and co-founder of the wickedly whimsical character goods company, Piximix llc.
He currently writes and draws both the deceptively cute Pixipets and the colorfully gothic Appley Rotten webcomics, and illustrates the spin-off site, Appley Zombie Art, which features brightly zombified versions of icons from the world of literature, film and videogames. Some of his past webcomic work includes the action series, Kaboom Bros., and the fandom comedy,Fan Art. One of the winners of Tokyopop's inaugural Rising Stars of Manga competition, his work has also appeared in multiple illustration books.
In addition to his comic work, Kyle has produced character design, illustration, animation and storyboards for national ad campaigns, prominent consumer and technology brands, and social games. He does not sleep.
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-Cat
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