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3-D for Me, See?
I've always wanted to draw a 3-D comic. I fell in love with 3-D comics when I put on the special glasses and read a friend's copy of...
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CU @ C2E2
I'll be a guest at C2E2 2024, April 26, 27, and 28. I'll be signing and sketching at the Hero Initiative, booth # 1575, 1-5 PM all three...
hilarybarta
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Me Tarzan, You Jayne
Jayne Mansfield was the larger than life star of the films Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and The Girl Can't Help It. A vivid childhood...
hilarybarta
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Dare to Be Stupid!
I'm one of the contributors to the upcoming anthology, The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic. As Z2, the publisher puts...
hilarybarta
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Jammin' With Jim
Here's a comic jam I did with gelatinous Jim Siergey. It was for the 89th issue of the APA-zine, Cartoon Loonacy. Loonacy is a...
hilarybarta
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Sir Hilary and Prince Valiant
A number of years ago Gary Gianni asked me to help him on the Prince Valiant strip. Gary was working on a side project or two, and felt...
hilarybarta
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Squa Tront! Spafon Wood!
Like most kids growing up in the 1960s, I liked monster and sci-fi movies. But the primary inspiration for the aliens and space-men I...
hilarybarta
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The Shadows Know
When adding shadows to your drawings, always go with what's graphically right. Forget tepid, anemic notions of "realism". Save that for...
hilarybarta
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The Dreaded Deadline Doom
The bane of every commercial artist is the deadline. Blow a deadline, and you might not get another job from that editor or art director....
hilarybarta
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Barbarian Barbering
I've drawn a two-page strip for Pretty Conan #2. Looks like volume one is also still available. Both are available at the link, here. The...
hilarybarta
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Pep Talk #13: Leap of Faith by Paul Czarnowski
Paul Czarnowski lives in Chcago and is the caffeinated brain behind the cartoon Robots With Coffee. Look for Paul on social media with...
hilarybarta
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Stupid Censors
In a recent post from artist Mitch O'Connell he included the following quote from an email that he had received, along with the photo...
hilarybarta
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A Brush With Destiny
Many years ago Canadian artist George Freeman was visiting Chicago, and somehow he ended up in my apartment. Possibly for one of the wild...
hilarybarta
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Pep Talk #12: O'Brother! by Dan Dougherty
The tall, handsome representative of the Chicago area comics community, Dan Dougherty is an award-winning writer and illustrator of...
hilarybarta
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That Time I Inked Art Adams, Part 2
This is a follow-up post on the creation of the ABC Sketchbook cover and poster. Chris Sprouse was the first artist to pencil and ink...
hilarybarta
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Pep Talk #11: Splendor! by Dan Dougherty
Chicago area creator Dan Dougherty told me to say that he is an award-winning writer and illustrator of comics and children's books. He's...
hilarybarta
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That Time I Inked Art Adams
One of the best gigs I ever had was drawing Splash Brannigan for Alan Moore's line of comics, ABC. Splash was both a descendent of Jack...
hilarybarta
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Pep Talk#10: Donald Benson
Writer Donald Benson is contemplating writing his second novel. His first is Her Temporary Prince. Donald also writes the occasional...
hilarybarta
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Yackety Jack
This is the latest comic strip in my Flip the Script project. Which means I draw the strip first, and you can see that process on my...
hilarybarta
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Pep Talk #9: The Sim-Phony by John Arcudi and Herman Melville
Writer John Arcudi's entry on Wikipedia reads as follows: John Arcudi is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on The...
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