Periscope: Portland's storyboard and comics studio.

Matthew Clark has put up some more of his art from the third issue of The Crime Bible



And Ron Chan has put up a ton of new art over at ronchan.net, including one piece that might be the most important drawing of this, the 21st century.

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CBG: For those not in the know, please explain the basic concept of Sea Freak.

JC: Sea Freak is the story of an atomic sea mutant in the 1960's whose poet soul is at odds with his need to eat teeny boppers. And that's not his only worry. He also has a chorus of three little crabs living on his body, and they want nothing to do with a change of diet. Still, he's adopted a human sense of justice from reading old Shakespeare plays, bottled and tossed into the sea by an unknown party. He decides to follow the bottles' trail, hoping to find a kindred spirit at the other end, and to at last be free of his monstery ways... It's only when he finds the trail's end that he realizes how far he has to go.

Jonathan Case interviewed at the Comic Book Gazette.

Sara Ryan and Ron Chan's Flytrap, Sara and Dylan Meconis' Click and Short Notice by Susan Tardif, reviewed at The Wright Opinion. Also, Paul Guinan's Boilerplate got a shout-out in Publisher's Weekly's Stumptown coverage.

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"The artwork of Ron Chan is crisp and fits really well with the story being told. Ron did a great job of presenting the reader with the range of emotions each character( well, except Mr.Bloomberg of course) was experiencing."

G.Rodrigue reviews Ron Chan's A Dummy's Guide to Danger at Comicnews.info.

Ron's been doing a lot of storyboards for big clients recently, and developing his caricature portfolio as well.


And of course Ron's done great work with Sara Ryan on Flytrap. Do you blog about comics? We'd love to send you one of Ron and Sara's minicomics, absolutely free! Just write to us at periscope.studio (at) gmail.com and tell us where to mail it.

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"This happens to the story's main character, and I don't know how Ryan could have done it any better. We get a remarkably vivid sense of the frustration and confusion she feels, and artist Dylan Meconis is up to the task, enhancing and adding nuance. "

Johnny Bacardi reviews Sara Ryan and Dylan Meconis' CLICK.(Read the whole comic online for free.) He also reviews Flytrap #3, illustrated by Ron Chan, and X-Men First Class #3, written by Jeff parker and featuring a backup illustrated by Colleen Coover.

Colleen's work is also under discussion at Millarworld, where they're talking about adult comics, and everyone agrees that she's one of the best out there. If you've got an opinion on the matter, join in!

And David Hahn's Bite Club just got a rave review over at It's Thursday, I'm in Love

So, no word from blogspot on getting rid of the blogjacking spammer yet. If anyone reading this knows anyone who works for blogger/blogspot, any contact there would be hugely appreciated.

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"DC’s new Minx imprint has been a source of intense industry conversation since it was announced as the company’s new, concerted effort to get girls to read comics (well, comics published by DC, rather than manga). It’s hard to evaluate how well the line does in meeting its goal as I’m not, nor have I ever been, a teenage girl.
But it certainly seems like (Good as Lily) should hit the target audience. The story reads like young-adult fiction with a teen-movie accent, and the art resembles something between manga (black and white, digest-sized, occasional use of the Eastern visual lexicon) and Western original graphic novels. "

Las Vegas Weekly reviews Jesse Hamm's Good as Lily (and Ron Chan's A Dummy's Guide to Danger, too)

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Ron Chan's been caricaturing MMA fighters:
Rampage Jackson


Randy Couture


More fighters forthcoming. The thread title is from a poster on this MMA board, where they've been going nuts for Ron's drawings.

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The second episode of FLYTRAP is now online. This one's called "Deep, too." It's illustrated by our own Ron Chan, who recently completed "A Dummy's Guide to Danger" from Viper.



You can also read (or re-read) the entire first episode of Flytrap, here.

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Rich Ellis cold got him a website.

Sean Bieri visted the studio today and informed us that his comic JAPE is going to be appearing regularly at serializer.net

Ron Chan's "A Dummy's Guide to Danger" got another good review.

Stumptown is this Friday:


Colleen Coover's assembled a couple of mini-sketchbooks that she'll have for sale. Look for these:



She's also gonna be gloving up with the Thing Hands on Friday, participating in the Comic Art Battle, and Steve Lieber and Colleen are on a panel on Saturday along with Paul Chadwick, Kazu Kibuishi, Aaron Renier, and Ezra Claytan Daniels. I think they're talking about comics.

Okay, that's all.

posted by Freddie Mercury

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