May 2008
Robots Are People, Too! number 2
A second issue of RAPT is coming. With some of the same contributors (Dan Boyd, me, Lou Copeland, Fran Matera, Jason Franks, Jason Maranto and more, this issue is sizzling and we will soon have prevews and more.

Robots Are People, Too!
A 36 page Anthology of Comics, Art and Prose Featuring the work of many Tampa Bay and Orlando area artists and writers,
with a few international guests, including:

Lou Copeland, Victor Claudio, Steven Mangold, Rose Wilson, Jerry Stanford, Niki Paksoy, Jason Franks, Daniel Boyd, Fran Matera, David Lamontagne, Nathan Wiedemer, Nick Abadzis, Jason Maranto
and Greg Vondruska
Go here to preview and buy.


Summer Goes Slowly: September 2006.
In February, I recieved a 2006 Individual Artist Grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County to
publish this new 48 page book. (It took me awhile to finish!)

Thank you so much to the Arts Council and the
Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners for their support.

To celebrate the publication of Summer Goes Slowly, there is a book release party and a solo exhibition of my art work at:

Horizon Line Gallery on Saturday,
September 16th , from 6 to 9 PM.
11005 N. 56th St. (South of Fowler on 56th St.)
Tampa, FL 33617
813-988-3424
Read a Tampa Tribune profile of my work.
Preview a few pages of the book here.

Also, to the left are photos of the front cover of the book, back cover, and inside front cover.

The book is $4.00 and 48 pages.


(and I pay postage!)

Thanks to my comics shop' sales rep Tony Shenton and these fine retailers for ordering Summer Goes Slowly:
Jim Hanleys Universe

Chicago Comics

Comic Relief

Porridge and Crackers: A surreal story of bird thievery.
Snake Charmer: A preview of this 16 page story.
Worker Bee: 32 pages of this 64 page story.

Illustrations: Here are some spot illustrations. Click to enlarge

sketch journal

penandbrush.net

write me: gvondruska@gmail.com

I have made a new site penandbrush.net to promote Tampa Bay Cartoonists
Tampa Bay cartoonists:
Lou Copeland
Mike Maihack
Greg Vondruska
Dan Boyd

Jason Franks
(Jason is now back in Australia)
Jim Fern

Jason Maranto

Sara Rosenbaum
Josh Sullivan

Fran Matera
Website I built for Fran Matera, a friend who had been drawing comic strips since the 1940's! Check out the site.

Orlando cartoonists:
Blue Rose Studios
Read the great Same Old Story by Steven Mangold and Nathan Wiedemer

Joel Carroll


ed siemienkowicz

comic book artists, process and techniques A few notes and links I put together to good how-to-sections on the net.
comics and comic sites:
nick abadzis
penandbrush.net
Nannah Laveaux- Jason Franks cool webcomic
blue rose studios
The Ciderview Project
failure
drew weing's comics
antar ellis
miss rose crowe's site
Sleepover Comics - I have a comic in Cole Johnson's great anthology Pink Medicine.
dave kiersh comics
chris onstad's achewood
les mcclaine's evil space robot
derek kirk kim's lowbright
serializer
jesse reklaw's slow wave

Drawings, Paintings and more: Here's a variety of stuff that's fun.Click to enlarge

sketch journal
more sketches
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