Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

xombiedirge:

Papercut Calvin and Hobbes by John Rozum / Tumblr

Part of the I Love You Man art show, opening Friday May 10th at the Bottleneck Gallery / Facebook.

actegratuit:

Sandra Chevrier

Beautiful mixed media portraits collaged with comic book pages!

thecactusthief:

A comic book I made for my Future of the Book paper. It references the kind of interactivity you’d find in a digital space. Also it’s about balloons.

teachingliteracy:

ebookporn:

Creative merchandising of analog books can make a huge impact and improve discovery significantly so why does every ebook retailer feel the same? Amazon is nearly indistinguishable from Walmart and Overstock.com who are indistinguishable from Barnes & Noble and Kobo. In web design terms the retailer landing page  is like the front 40 feet of the retailer - in a bookstore this is where most of the sites sales happen. There has got to be a better user experience that engages the customer and encourages them to browse and discover.   ~ eP

Tokyo’s Tokyo, the comic shop that looks like a comic book. (via Rico Renzi) (via deantrippe)

psuedofolio:

Got some spare time? Make a comic!

Download the sample printable comic right here!

Reasons for doing this?

1: My followers can finally have a printed comic by me.

2: It seemed like a fun activity to do, specially with young kids.

3: It might be cool if interweb folks shared tiny little mini comics with each other. And a whole bunch of people can print each other’s comics and maybe we could collect ones by other artists. So… ya know. Why not?

EDIT: AHH! Before I forget, I should mention that this mini comic format was created by the folks at http://www.pocketmod.com/ I came by their technique while listening to Fear the Boot, a roleplaying game podcast as they were interviewing Stuart Robertson an indie table top rpg designer.

If you’d like, support those folks cause they helped me discover this neat design.

EDIT2: Added tags. Dag nabbit.