Recap: Bleeding the Narrative at UMD

Sep19
by on September 19, 2011 at 9:17 AM
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“Bleeding the Narrative: Comics in Art and Culture” was on September 9, 2011. The University of Maryland gathered five creators who were in town the day before Small Press Expo: Jim Rugg, Robert Ullman, Monica Gallagher, Alexis E. Fajardo, and Carolyn Belefski.


The event started with each of us presenting about ten minutes worth of material. I talked about my influences, inspirations, design work, illustration, freelance work, and comics.


After our presentations, we took questions from the audience for about an hour more.



Guests were able to come up to us one-on-one to ask questions after the roundtable. They also served soda and cookies at the reception. I got enquiries about graphic design and was happy to give advice to the students. About half of the audience planned on going to SPX that weekend – an added plus was that SPX provided free passes to all roundtable attendees!



I was very impressed with my fellow panelists and their quality work. I left the event feeling inspired to create after our discussion.



You can listen to audio of the roundtable here:
http://curls-studio.com/media/bleeding/umbc1.mp3
http://curls-studio.com/media/bleeding/umbc2.mp3

Here is my presentation, so you can follow along with the visuals: http://curls-studio.com/media/bleeding/umbc_presentation_carolynbelefski.pdf
(All personal work, comics, and freelance design projects © Carolyn Belefski and Curls Studio)

Thanks to all who attended the event or who are listening to it now. Drop me a line at info[at]curls-studio.com, if you have any follow-up questions.

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Starburst Magazine: All Comics Are Created Equal

Sep14
by on September 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM
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My comic strip Curls was mentioned today in the column “Adventures On Alternate Earths” by P.M. Buchan in Starburst Magazine, the UK’s longest running Sci-Fi magazine, first published 1978.

The article is titled “All Comics Are Created Equal” and features Lizz Lizz, Adam Cadwell, Andi Ewington, Marc Ellerby, Rachel Pandich, and many more creators to discover!

Please read the full article here: http://www.starburstmagazine.com/columns/adventures-on-alternative-earths/753-all-comics-are-created-equal

I respect that even though it’s not the author’s cup-of-tea, he is able to see the appeal:

“On a completely different note, I’ve been talking to artist Carolyn Belefski about her webcomic Curls recently and she could seriously teach you a thing or two about self-promotion! Given my fondness for Maakies and Hubert Selby Jr novels it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I found Curls too innocent and lighthearted for my taste, but damn that lady can draw! With an art style reminiscent of Frank Cho’s Liberty Meadows Carolyn has an accomplished pen that was made to draw nationally syndicated newspaper strips. Working on the assumption that not all of my readers can be black-hearted cynics like me then some of you are going to LOVE Curls because it’s an adorable strip featuring a character shaped like a piece of toast and if there’s any justice in the world Carolyn will get the chance to keep on making comics like this for the rest of her life and have them collated into massive telephone-directory sized books.”

What a great quote. Thank you so much to Starburst Magazine and P.M. Buchan.

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Intervention is September 16-18, 2011

Sep13
by on September 13, 2011 at 2:44 PM
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How much of your day do you spend on the internet — looking at comics, watching videos, reading blogs, connecting with friends, tweeting, or just surfing?

At Intervention – The Internet Culture Convention – you can meet, talk with, learn from, and party with the people you see online everyday.


Curls Studio will be hanging out in Artist Alley this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday — and would love to meet you at Table 40 (see map above).

This is our first time at Intervention and the con is in it’s second year. Check out the programming schedule… there’s so much to attend — Cosplay Burlesque, Dating Advice For Nerds, Creative Marketing 101, and Balancing Your Commitments are just a handful of topics Intervention has in addition to comics, gaming, podcasting, and anything else cool on the internet and in real life.

I’m looking forward to this convention and to learn more about LARP.

Intervention
September 16-18, 2011
Hilton Washington DC/Rockville
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852

From Friday at Noon to Sunday at 4PM

Here are the hours Curls Studio will be at Intervention in Artist Alley, Table 40:
Friday: 2PM to 8PM
Saturday: 10AM to 7PM
Sunday: 10AM to 3PM

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Speaking at University of Maryland 9/9/11

Sep07
by on September 7, 2011 at 10:41 AM
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I was invited to speak at the University of Maryland this Friday, September 9, 2011 from 1-3PM.


Bleeding the Narrative: Comics in Art and Culture

Panelists: Jim Rugg, Robert Ullman, Monica Gallagher, Alexis E. Fajardo, Carolyn Belefski

The University of Maryland is in College Park, MD, 20742. The roundtable will be in the Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture, which is on the 4th floor of the Art-Sociology Building.

I will be discussing my work, visual style, technique, inspiration, storytelling, career background, art direction, graphic design, illustration, freelance, and comics.

Open to the public. Hope to see you there and at SPX this weekend! Fear the turtle.

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