Scott McCloud will be giving a lecture titled “Comics: A Medium in Transition”

American comics are changing fast. Bolstered by the literary ambitions of the “graphic novel” movement, a flood of international influences and the growing importance of new technologies, the comics landscape shifts regularly in surprising and increasingly unpredictable directions. Author and comics artist Scott McCloud puts all these trends into perspective in a fast-moving visual presentation.

Scott McCloud has been writing and drawing comics since 1984. His book Understanding Comics was a New York Times Notable book for 1994, and is available in 16 languages. McCloud has lectured on comics and digital media at Google, MIT, Pixar, Microsoft, and The Smithsonian Institution. McCloud’s online comics can be found at scottmccloud.com.

The lecture is free and the details can be found here.

Science is truly a boon to the modern cartoonist.  Today we learn how to make own own TRUE TYPE FONT in a matter of minutes using the free services of yourfonts.com

You can do it in two ways. Print the font generator templates, write in all the letters with your favorite pen, scan & upload to the generator OR do what I did by downloading the template as a gif, bring into photoshop and write in all the boxes with your wacom tablet.  Check out the font I made in about 10 minutes:

So yeah you don’t have to use that lame comic book font you and everybody else has been using in their webcomics; you can afford to be original!

Download the RR Anderson Cartoonist Font AS SEEN ON C.L.A.W.!

By grace of Kings Books and the Tacoma Arts Commission, the CLAW have been announced as official participants in this year’s King’s Books Wayzgoose!!! to take place on March 1st, 2009 at noon.

From Kings:

C.L.A.W., the Cartoonist’s League of Absurd Washingtonians, is a viciously serious secret society bringing together talented Washington state cartoonists.  Consisting of Elliott Trotter, R.R. Anderson, Mark Monlux, James Stowe, two zombie assistants, and a chinchilla, this group seeks to bring sequential art and illustration to the masses.  This is their first Wayzgoose designing a Steamroller Print.

What will the CLAW create? Who knows, but by the fish of the great Pacific, it will be glorious.