Possum Press

The important part of the game is to keep on getting up.

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Episode #005 is up now!!

Episode #004, now with fancy titles!!

Mike Kitchen and Blair Kitchen talk about conventions, and The Avengers Movie, and Creator’s Rights, and other comic stuff.

Recorded live at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo in Columbus Ohio. This episdoe of The Kitchen Bros. Comic Book Podcast, Mike Kitchen and Blair Kitchen talk to David Branstetter, the creator of Straw Man.

Show note links:

S.P.A.C.E. – http://backporchcomics.com/space.htm
Lethargic Lad – http://www.lethargiclad.com
Savage Dragon – http://www.savagedragon.com
Max Ink – http://www.maxinkcomix.com
Blink – http://amzn.to/K5WoBU
Steve Peters – http://awakeningcomics.wordpress.com

David Branstetter – http://strawmancomics.com
Mike Kitchen – http://www.ultraist.net
Blair Kitchen – http://www.possumpress.com

One of the nice things about teaching is that I can sneak into life drawing classes.  I only had a chance to draw at a couple life drawing sessions, but it’s something that I will definitely try to take advantage of in the future.  Here’s a couple drawings from said sessions:

In this episode, Mike Kitchen and Blair Kitchen discuss webcomics and other things comic related.

Show note resources:

Mark Oakley – http://iboxpublishing.com
Bill Kimberley – http://thedrivein.ca
Chris Howard – http://bit.ly/fEDpDd
Karl Kerschl – http://www.abominable.cc

http://www.ultraist.net
http://www.possumpress.com

Howdy folks.  Hopefully this will be episode 1 of many.

The plan is to have a Kitchen Bros website to host the podcast, but for now keep an eye on our blogs, twitter and Facebook for the next one, hopefully coming soon.

Well, other than the fact that Axe Cop is super funny and Ethan Nicolle is a really nice guy, there’s also a 2 page Possum and Axe Cop cross over, written by 2 of my children (Avery – age 8 and Jacob – age 6) and drawn by me!

You can read Axe Cop online at axecop.com and you can read the Possum Axe Cop crossover here.

Here’s the first page of a 3 page comic I just finished for the 2012 SPACE Anthology, which is a collection of original comics put together by some of the independent comic artists that will be exhibiting at this year’s  S.P.A.C.E.  (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo) this April 21st and 22nd, which will be taking place in Ohio.  This is one of the more fun conventions to attend as an exhibitor because it’s a smaller show, with lots of socializing between the creators.

I’d love to show you the whole 3 pages, but I should really wait until after the convention, so for now, this is all you get:)

Here’s a sneak peek at something I’ve been working on for the 2012 SPACE Anthology.  I’m a little late getting it in, but hopefully I’ll still make the final, final deadline.  This will be a 3 page stand alone, Possum Short.  I haven’t forgotten about issue #6 though, so don’t worry.  My hopes are still to have issue #6 finished for later this summer, but at the moment I’m not promising anything, as I’m barely keeping my head above water with story boarding, teaching, and being a chauffeur to 3 hockey playing kids.

I’ll let you know how this turns out when I finish it (just a taste though, because you’ve got to get the SPACE anthology if you want to see the whole thing….. at least for now).

Every year, I tell myself “I’m going to make a Christmas card this year!”, and every year I’m so busy that I look up from my drawing table and realize it’s the middle of December and I haven’t even thought of an idea, thus putting an end to that year’s Christmas card aspirations.  Well not this year!  Behold!!!! a Possum Press Christmas card!!!!!!

Hopefully this will become a tradition, now that the first one is out of the way.

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Here’s a couple more ‘in class’ animation demos I did during a couple lectures for the second year animation class I’m teaching at Seneca College. The first was done to explain the weight lift exercise to the students and try to get them to make their characters lift using the whole body, rather than just using the character’s arms.

And here’s one I did today, using good ol’ Steve Tacola, saying “Not me.” I was explaining how you can spice up your lip sync by putting in little head shakes, and showing them how to do it while keeping the character moving in a certain direction.

Both of these were done in about half an hour under a projector, on paper of course. I shot them later during the work class just for fun, and to see how they turned out. It’s kind of fun animating straight ahead and not having to go back and fix all the mistakes!

This was something I did as an in class demo for the animation class I’m teaching at Seneca College, here in Toronto. It ain’t perfect, but what do you want for a half hour or so’s work?…… (sheesh).

I thought I’d share it with you, as this is the first Possum animation I’ve gotten around to doing. Hopefully in the future there’ll be a whole lot more!

Some of you know that I’ve been teaching at Seneca College and Sheridan College this year (now you all know…..).  Well this week is reading week for both colleges, so I’ve been working on some animation for a website my church is putting together to help explain the Gospel simply, using a strategy created by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (a famous London Baptist preacher) , in a message given on January 11, 1866 to several hundred orphans regarding Psalm 51:7 “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.^[2]“  called The Wordless Book.

3 colours sc 1 rough animation from Possum Press on Vimeo.

This is a scene for a short project I am doing, explaining the gospel using 3 colours (black, red and white), based on the Wordless book, created by the famous London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

This is just the first scene, where the man will be turning black (the first colour of the 3 colours) and the whole short will be about a minute in length.

I’m a big fan of Axe Cop by Ethan Nicolle and his little brother Malachai, so when Ethan emailed me and asked me to do a pin up for his next Axe Cop book, I was super excited, but me being the slick promoter that I am (that’s sarcasm folks), I sheepishly asked if I could include The Possum in the pin up, fully expecting him to say “well, it should really be just Axe Cop and Axe Cop characters”, but to my delight, the Ethan’s reply back was as follows:  “Yeah go ahead! You can even. Do a one page comic if you want with axe cop and the Possum in it.”   Somehow I weaseled my way into doing a 2 page crossover, written by my kids, Avery (age 8 ) and Jacob (age 6) and drawn by yours truly!

Go to AXE COP.COM to read the full 2 page team up extraordinaire!!

If you’re not familiar with Axe Cop, I highly recommend checking it out!  Axe Cop is written by Malachai Nicolle (age 6 now, I believe) and is drawn by his older brother Ethan Nicolle (age 30 now, I believe).  Read the whole story here!