Last night my wife and I went to see North by Northwest at the old theater downtown (old as in ornate 1920s old, not old as in $1 theater old.) We were there 30 minutes early, so what better time to get in a little sketching!

Well boy and girls let start with introductions, my name is Kenneth Graves, people call me Ken (my mom and dad still call me Levan, my middle name) and I am here on behalf of Brian, one of the creators of Gravyboy. He is a friend of mine that I met through my friend and […]

How do we go about finding good comics?
There is a sea of information out there in every subject area, every genre, every persuasion. The choices are endless and it’s becoming easier and easier to publish to the masses. In comic-dom, there are Print-on-Demand sites that make publishing ridiculously cost effective for […]

This week Andy reviews Batman #667 and Joss Whedon’s run on Runaways. Brian has yet to read Runaways, and is waiting for the trade paperback so his studio doesn’t become a labyrinth of 24 page books (or 32 if you count ads.)
Be sure to check out Michael Ryan’s crazy pencils and Rick Ketcham’s brilliant […]

This is definitely the largest and most involved commission I’ve done, and I have to admit that it was a blast! It took me about a week and it’s a little bit larger than what a 2-page comic book spread is drawn at. Needless to say even with a 12 X 18 scanner I STILL […]

In San Diego I was commissioned to do a rather large drawing with three characters, monsters, and in full-color. I started on it last Saturday and finally finished last night. (At least I think I am finished, there may be a few touch ups here and there.)
Unfortunately, I still don’t have an 11X17 […]

One of the great things about the internet is the abundance of blogs. Well, maybe that’s not in and of itself a good thing, since there’s a lot of sub-par stuff out there to sort through. One of the good ones that’s related to art that I’ve come across is Dave Pimentel’s Drawings […]

When I got home today I saw a post on a website that mentioned he passing of Mike Wieringo. My gut reaction was: “Where’s the punchline?”
Sadly, there was no punchline…this is for real. Mike Wieringo has left us at the age of 44. We had gotten to know Mike over the last […]

Well, stick a fork in me. I’m done.
Tomorrow I’ll be FedExing (is that a verb now?) 200 Marvel Sketchcards I did for Upperdeck over the summer. I posted a bunch in my gallery. They were really fun, and I think I they came out pretty well. I did them the same way I do commissions […]

Wow! We’re back from Comic-Con 2007 and had a blast. Thanks to those of you who came by and mentioned the podcast (I’ll pass along your comments to Andy) and those who stopped to buy GravyBoy! Aside from fighting a cold all week (a battle which I ultimately lost, mind you) […]

So you want to make comics? Really?
Great! Do you want to be a publisher too?
Haven’t thought about it? Well, now’s the time to start thinking.
One of the struggles in doing comics over the last few years has been balancing the creative process of making the comic with the challenge of getting the […]

The countdown is on. San Diego Comic-con is a month away. One month people. It’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to survive the mass of humanity that will descend upon the west coast in search of the latest in pop culture technology. That is, if you are wise and […]

We just got back from Heroescon.
After attending for seven years, they really are all starting to run together for me. But it did seem that not as many people were buying books this year. Thanks to those of you who stopped by our table looking for new stuff (sorry for the delay…they’re coming!)
Wizard […]

I’ve started getting a little into animating. (Very little as you can probably tell…it’s not that good.) These little stick figure drawings are pretty simple using my tablet and stylus…and hopefully I’ll get the hang of it more and more as I go on.
I was just making this up as I went along, […]

I was pondering what types of things pass for headline news these days and figured I could best express my thoughts on the matter this way.

We’ve got a new show coming up tomorrow. Just FYI. Andy’s been a busy guy here lately (as we all have) but I just want to mention two interviews we have lined up. I previously mentioned Chris Sims from Chris’ Invincible Super-Blog, but we’ve also got Jonathan Coulton coming up too! […]

Who knew that getting paper cut at Kinkos could make me so happy. Why? I’ll tell you why in a little post I’d like to call:
Tips for the Indie Comic Artist:
Tip #1: Sure you can buy lined paper that’s 11 X 17 with the 10 X 15 inch drawing area all lined out […]

So, did you see Spider-man 3?
If not, I won’t ruin it for you, I’ll just make a few observations. I’ve never liked Toby Macguire as Spider-man, nor Kirstin Dunst as MJ. But I still enjoyed the last 2 movies…and I enjoyed this one too, for that matter. But whenever Macguire […]

In case you’ve never checked it out, Comic Review Weekly highly recommends:

Chris Sims offers more than just your daily dose of karate bear-fighting (as if that wouldn’t be enough in and of itself) he also gives you your daily dose of awesome comic commentary. Check it out.
Look for Chris to join us […]

Get your trigger fingers ready to right-click on “download” this week, kids. Because we’ve got an upcoming interview with the great Michael J. Nelson.

Those of you who are Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans don’t need to be told his resume. Those of you aren’t sure what MST3K is, well…you’d probably recognize […]

I’m working on some more interviews for the upcoming weeks and don’t want to give the final word until the plans are…well…finalized.
BUT
If you’re a fan of the greatest show that has ever been on TV (and by that I mean Mystery Science Theater 3000) then you should stay alert for an announcement here at Comic […]

Yes, there’s another podcast on the way this week.  Between the norovirus two weeks ago, and an unexpected death in our family last week (and all the family business that follows) I’m trying to play catch up on everything this week.  In the meantime, look…a picture!

Marty, Danny and I were interviewed for the Artist Alley podcast at candycornstudios.com. The interview was taken at Stellarcon a few weeks ago, and we talk about the book and making comics, etc…
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW

My first impressions of Shark-Man upon spotting it at the local comics store: “Garish. Derivative of so many other comics that combine the name of an animal with ‘man’. Not worth my time.” Thus, I’ve once again learned the lesson that you truly can’t judge a book by it’s cover. Shark-Man is worthy of note. […]

We’ve got a new show coming up in the next day in addition to another interview (that I’m really looking forward to.) I’ve been fighthing a stomach virus for the last 24 hours, but I think I’m over the hump now. Not an experience I recommend.
In the meantime, Here’s a Pilgrim.

As to embark on another year of fanboyness…here’s a reminder

Image Source: http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html 

GravyBoy was reviewed at Newsarama.com today.  The podcast even got pimped a little in the comments section.
Click Here to go to the review. 

This pretentious waiter wants you to try something new today. Perhaps calamari or escargot. He thinks caviar is overrated and touristy. If you order it, he’ll express his disgust with a slight, almost unnoticeable puff of air from his nostrils. He also thinks all Americans are fat and lazy.
His most embarrassing secret is that […]

When my grandmother was born, World War I wasn’t quite world wide yet, and most streets were not paved. Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States.
“Buffalo Bill” Hickok was still alive, and people still remembered, first hand, when our nation was at war with itself.
Her philosphy of money management was formed by the […]

Marty posted this today on the gravyboy site.

Where have I been you might ask?  I was in semi-warm, but very sunny Orlando Florida at Megacon.  To prove it, there’s a section in the Newsarama review that includes a blurb on GravyBoy as well as me and Danny (the colorist on the book) looking very tired.
New show will be up in a day […]

I just wrapped up an interview with Cameron Reilly on his G’day World podcast.  We talk about comics.  That’ll be show #201.  Check it out.  I demand it.
Please?
In two days I head down to sunny Orlando Florida for this year’s Megacon.  Nothing like a good 9 hour road trip to clear your head after hanging […]

ComicSpace is comicdom’s answer to Myspace.  Except it’s better designed and it works.
Look for an interview with its founder here in the next couple of weeks!

I hate waiting.  At least I did until I realized it’s a golden opportunity to steal people’s souls…er…I mean sketch them. Bring on the 30 minute wait, restaurants of America!

We’ve got some interviews lined up for the coming weeks and our first should be comic’s painter Mark Sparacio.  Mark is an incredible painter whose work stretches from DC Comic’s Green Lantern to Dark Horse’s Shi, to indy titles such as some book called GravyBoy.
Look for the interview very soon, in the meantime check out […]

A few years ago I bought a small, pocket-sized sketchbook. There was just something cool about it, but it was misplaced and I forgot about it after a while.
Then last year I stumbled across a site about the Moleskine notebook. “Wait!” I thought, “That’s my notebook. Where IS that thing?!?” […]

In the February or March issue of Preview Magazine (where North American shops order most of their comics from) GravyBoy issue 1 will hopefully be among the throng of titles. Here’s the cover art to that issue. Randy Green (Witchblade, Emma Frost, Academy X)did a great job as usual on the pencils, Rick Ketcham […]

Sometimes I get the chance while doing commissions to do some semi-obscure characters. In fact, it seems that I typically get requests for characters that are out of the mainstream consciousness. This particular one features a couple members from the JSA. There’s so many more characters even in the superhero genre than […]

When do you know it’s time to drop a book from your reading list? Well, only YOU can answer that question for you. But here are 4 reasons why I have in the past:
- TOO MUCH EXPOSITION - This was the foe that finally defeated the Teen Titans in Brian’s world. I […]

I don’t know what it is about the character of Mary Marvel…or Captain Marvel…that fascinates me. Maybe, in the case of the Cap, it’s the idea of a kid being able to transforms into a superpowered adult at will. Who of us wouldn’t have liked to speak a magic word and then “SHAZAM!” […]

For those of you who aren’t in the know, each year contains 5 seasons for the comic book aficionado. Sure there’s the standard winter, spring, summer, and autumn nonsense. Any buffoon can enjoy those…but it takes a special kind of buffoon to enjoy the other. And we, sir, are just the type […]

We finally got our problem resolved with gravyboy.com.  Apparently some hacker crook decided it would be fun to go into one of our seldom used directories and create a fake Royal Bank of Canada login page.  I’ll have to hand it to them, it was great work.
Dirty thieves.
In other news, look for the first episode […]

For 2007, I’ve decided to try a little experiment. I’ll upload a short 3-5 minute sketch video of, well, me sketching. Why? 1)Because we have a comic book to promote, and every little bit helps and 2) people seem to like that sort of thing.
LINK TO THIS WEEK’S VIDEO SKETCH

I’ve had links in my previous post to www.gravyboy.com.  This is the place that houses our comic, webcomic and other nonsense that Jack Rabbit Stewdios puts out.  If you’re wondering why, when you click on the link, it says “site suspended”…that would be because someone hacked it, set up a phishing page, and was trying […]

One of the features on this blog will be our weekly webcomic, Fanboy Almanac. FA covers the misadventures of four average fanboys and the sideways world in which they live. Some of the material is fictional….some of it…well you can’t make this stuff up. Check out our archives at http://gravyboy.com/fanboyalmanac/archive.html