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More Toughguys with guns

I just can’t stop drawing these

Read Mumbai Macguffin for Free

Liquid Comics has put their back catalog (most of it) on Issuu.com and you can read Mumbai Macguffin for free.
Mumbai Macguffin is sort of like Three Days of Condor meets Slumdog Millionaire meets Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Enjoy!

MUMBAI MACGUFFIN
Writer: Saurav Mohapatra
Artist: Saumin Patel
Synopsis:
A high-octane adventure through the never-before-seen underbelly of Mumbai, [...]

Some nice videos on how a comic book is produced

Via Ron Marz :

Writing with Chuck Dixon

Pencils

Inking

Colors with Laura Martin

K.I.S.S. Me a Purple One – new 9PG panel online

A new Nine Panel Grid Column about Over-writing and Purple Prose is online at http://www.comicswaitingroom.com/npg11.html
About Nine Panel Grid:
9PG is an infrequent column I write about the art and craft of writing in general and comics in particular.

Oh my god, you're punching me! — New Nine Panel Grid column online

Latest installment of Nine Panel Grid at Comics Waiting Room – http://www.comicswaitingroom.com/ninepanelgrid8.html
Know when to walk away…

Mukesh Singh interview

I recently did an interview with Mukesh Singh (DEVI, Gamekeeper, Shadow Hunter) for Comics Waiting Room.
Mukesh was the artist for issues 1-5 of DEVI for Virgin comics and then moved on to Gamekeeper and Shadow Hunter. He was a Russ Manning award nominee for promising newcomer artist at San Diego Comic-Con 2008.
Currently he is working [...]

Nine Panel Grid

 

I write a (very infrequent, but that’s going to change ) column for Comics Waiting Room called Nine Panel Grid. I just posted the fifth installment of that titled “22 Pages of Doom“. 9PG is an attempt to share whatever I learned from exploring the craft of writing comic books as a writer [...]