Planet Comic Book Radio

Stumptown Comic Festival

I'll be exhibiting at the Stumptown Comic Fest in Portland, Oregon the weekend of April 26 & 27. I'll be at Table #9 alongside Jason Martin. This week's interviews features a talk with Jason and his new publishing endeavor, SUPER REAL GRAPHICS PRESENTS: GNOME, an interview with GNOME creator David Dwonch and a discussion with Stumptown Co-director Kip Manley. Portland, here I come! And I'm bringing Demolition Dove!

PODCAST 041508: Jason Martin, artist

• Jason Martin is the inaugural guest for Planet Comic Book Radio
  
• The comic books community in the Portland area, including the comic books festivals held there.
  
• Floating World Comics who held the ROM art show December 2007.
  
• His favorite comic shops.
• Things From Another World 
• Excalibur Comics 
• on the Marvel sketch cards that he was commissioned to do by Upper Deck
• getting the gig through deviantART 
• the characters he's allowed to do
• on Gnome, a comic book he's publishing through Super Real Graphics
  

• as a non-profit foundation to support the comics and arts in the Portland area
  
• Comics Month in Portland
• the first Stumptown Comics Fest in 2004
• benefiting the local artists
• giving out the Stumptown Trophy Awards
• growth of Stumptown
• the comic books community in Portland
• early influences
  
• Stumptown's schedule of events

• about the graphic novel, Gnome
• why is it set in the 50's?
• on Special Education, published through National Press Comics
• on Life and Death
• on his preferred process where someone else draws his comics and he inks it
• on the collaborative environment arising from his preferred process
  
• on his podcast, The Geeks Savant
• more on Gnome

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• www.JimLujan.com
• Recent experience at the San Gabriel Valley Comic Book Festival
• His work as an animator http://youtube.com/jimlujan
• got featured at Spike & Mike's 
• working on a DVD collection of his animations
• early artistic influences
• John Byrne
  
• Mike Zeck
• Paul Smith
• Iron Fist vs. Captain America by John Byrne from his brother, Bob
  
• incident at Thriftymart, way back when
• (TV?) cartoon influences
• Underdog
• Looney Tunes
• getting the animation bug
• life before animation
• animation now

• on live art
• interested parties for live art, please contact Jim at www.JimLujan.com
• San Gabriel should have live art performances
• his process of creating animation
• more on influences by other artists (listed on his website)
  
• on the creative talents in and around San Gabriel Valley
• calling out for the formation of an association of artists in the San Gabriel Valley
• on the Nuvein Foundation for Arts and Literature

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