AIB Illustration & Animation Blog

Kidrobot FatCap Series at Faneuil Hall Today!

MCA of Evildesign, a local graphic artist and toy designer who has been known to visit AIB classrooms over the years, will be appearing at Newbury Comics today!...

" KIDROBOT INC. releases their new series of FatCap blind boxes tomorrow! To help celebrate, artist MCA of Evildesign will be stopping by our Faneuil Hall location at noon to sign the design he contributed to the series. Don't forget, we will also be selling sealed boxes of the series which include a limited variant figure not available elsewhere! See you at noon!" - Chris of Newbury Comics

FatCap Series 3 is finally coming Thursday, January 26! Celebrate this exciting new artist series with trading parties going down at all Kidrobot stores and specialty retailers around the globe. Be one of the lucky few to scoop up one of the two rare and regional case pack exclusives.




Guest appearances include MCA at Newbury Comics Boston (Faneuil Hall location), Julie West at KRSF, Sket One and KaNO at KRLA, Queen Andrea at KRNY and JonPaul Kaiser at KRLDN. All Kidrobot trading parties will go from 6-8pm. Check out the list below of dozens of specialty stores participating around the world then go print out your Collector’s Checklist and get prepared for the freshest FatCap Series ever!

Hub Comics featured in DigBoston

AIB's Tim Finn was recently interviewed in DigBoston (the new name for The Weekly Dig), with a special shout out to AIB. DigBoston covered his re-boot party for Hub Comics, a beloved comic store in Somerville that closed down but was bought and reopened by Finn this year. 

Read more here...
http://digboston.com/spend/2012/01/earthprimetimehubcomics2012/

COMICS OUT LOUD @ Society of Illustrators

Saturday, January 28, 2012  1:00 - 5:00PM
@ Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NYC

Featuring: LOUISE SIMONSON, WALTER SIMONSON, BOB WIACEK,

CHRIS SOTOMAYOR and JOHN WORKMAN

Curated by DANNY FINGEROTH

Comic books (and their cousins, graphic novels) are something we're all familiar with from childhood on. But if you're not involved in making them, how they come to be can seem a little mysterious and intimidating. Now, the curtain is pulled back as comics editor and writer DANNY FINGEROTH, in collaboration with the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS presents: COMICS OUT LOUD

In a manner similar to the Society's acclaimed ART OUT LOUD events, COMICS OUT LOUD will feature top comic book creators-one from each discipline of the medium-demonstrating and discussing their work processes as attendees circulate around the room and watch the process of "sequential art" (as the great Will Eisner dubbed it) being made.

You'll get to watch writer LOUISE SIMONSON, penciler WALT SIMONSON, inker BOB WIACEK, colorist CHRIS SOTOMAYOR, and letterer JOHN WORKMAN as they ply their crafts. Each creator will be working on a current assignment, so that attendees will get a sense of how team-created comics come to be. Event organizer, and longtime comics editor, DANNY FINGEROTH, will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate the role of the editor in the comic book making process.

COMICS OUT LOUD will be a rare opportunity to see top creators doing (and speaking about) their work. You will have the chance to find out everything you always wanted to know about making comics, but were afraid (or didn't even know) to ask!

 

$50 non-members, $40 members, $20 students

Food will be available for an additional $5.

Reservations are limited. Click here to reserve your spot!  

 

There will be two 15 minute breaks  

that will be designated for book and print signing.

 

images by BOB WIACEK, CHRIS SOTOMAYOR and WALTER SIMONSON    

War Machine attacks Dig Boston

Ryan Maguire's, AIB Illustration and Foundation Faculty, digital illustration Tom Brady is War Machine was attacks the cover of digboston this week. Free on the Boston streets now! From 1.4.2012 – 1.11.12

digboston is Boston's free alt-weekly guide to nightlife, opinions and events.

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