Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics

Cartoonist/Writer/KY Colonel/3x Eisner Award nominee. Former college professor, former social studies teacher. This is just an archive now, find me on bluesky.

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Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 5633年前
Drew up a few Patreon commissions this morning. Gonna draw up a few more and the paint `em in one swoop, or, at least, that's the intention. 1
Drew up a few Patreon commissions this morning. Gonna draw up a few more and the paint `em in one swoop, or, at least, that's the intention.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 9733年前
Inks for a couple of commissions featuring characters from 1961's THE HUSTLER (played by George C. Scott and Jackie Gleason); gonna paint `em up black and white but with some color rim lighting to help `em pop a bit. 1
Inks for a couple of commissions featuring characters from 1961's THE HUSTLER (played by George C. Scott and Jackie Gleason); gonna paint `em up black and white but with some color rim lighting to help `em pop a bit.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 91553年前
Bunch o' pirates commission for a Patreon backer 1
Bunch o' pirates commission for a Patreon backer
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 181573年前
Found this process image from 2015, trying to figure out if there's a good way to do traditional colors with my comics without losing clarity(hard for me). I ended up doing painted backgrounds and digital characters on this one. It was a neat effect, but I haven't used it since. 1
Found this process image from 2015, trying to figure out if there's a good way to do traditional colors with my comics without losing clarity(hard for me). I ended up doing painted backgrounds and digital characters on this one. It was a neat effect, but I haven't used it since.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 12733年前
This was from a Peanuts tribute book to which I contributed an essay, about Schulz's impact on the popular awareness of flying aces & the foreign legion as adv. genres after they'd largely disappeared from the narrative market (@LexFajardoArt & @thegalorian brought me on board) 1
This was from a Peanuts tribute book to which I contributed an essay, about Schulz's impact on the popular awareness of flying aces & the foreign legion as adv. genres after they'd largely disappeared from the narrative market (@LexFajardoArt & @thegalorian brought me on board)
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 23863年前
If you're perpetually low that Dreamwork's 2003 SINBAD doesn't have an art-of book to showcase its absolutely spectacular production work, REJOICE! Because Living Lines Library put up a TON of it about 10 yrs back. I look at 'em frequently, & so ought you: https://t.co/fYrdAjnCyi 1
If you're perpetually low that Dreamwork's 2003 SINBAD doesn't have an art-of book to showcase its absolutely spectacular production work, REJOICE! Because Living Lines Library put up a TON of it about 10 yrs back. I look at 'em frequently, & so ought you: https://t.co/fYrdAjnCyi
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 7583年前
Well, it looks like I finished this page 5 years ago today (according to FB). I love playing with lettering from a formal perspective and this page is probably the one I'm proudest of in that department (meaning the blinds/whispers at the bottom, but the middle SFX is fun, too). 1
Well, it looks like I finished this page 5 years ago today (according to FB). I love playing with lettering from a formal perspective and this page is probably the one I'm proudest of in that department (meaning the blinds/whispers at the bottom, but the middle SFX is fun, too).
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 9553年前
This weekend, Richard Shephard, formerly the chamberlain of the York Minster cathedral, passed away. He was my dad's most frequent artistic collaborator, and one of his very best friends. 1
This weekend, Richard Shephard, formerly the chamberlain of the York Minster cathedral, passed away. He was my dad's most frequent artistic collaborator, and one of his very best friends.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 6523年前
The last time we were in York, Richard took Liz and I to the Glazier Trust the Stone Yard. He'd been in charge of the York Minster Fund, which raised the money for the restoration efforts. 2
The last time we were in York, Richard took Liz and I to the Glazier Trust the Stone Yard. He'd been in charge of the York Minster Fund, which raised the money for the restoration efforts.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 492203年前
Me and & @TheKyleStarks's newest, from @Skybound/@ImageComics: 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON When the worst man in Hollywood is murdered, his 6 former supporting actors (whose careers he tanked) have to fight stuntpeople, ninjas, bikers, & more if they want to solve the crime. 1
Me and & @TheKyleStarks's newest, from @Skybound/@ImageComics: 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON When the worst man in Hollywood is murdered, his 6 former supporting actors (whose careers he tanked) have to fight stuntpeople, ninjas, bikers, & more if they want to solve the crime.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 61103年前
Inks for some starship commissions, soon to be painted: two original STAR TREK series Enterprises, REBEL's Ghost, and MANDALORIAN's Razor Crest. 1
Inks for some starship commissions, soon to be painted: two original STAR TREK series Enterprises, REBEL's Ghost, and MANDALORIAN's Razor Crest.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 81323年前
A project I've been working on has horses in it and I've been enjoying drawing them. Sometimes it takes multiple attempts to get 'em right but when I do it makes me real happy. 1
A project I've been working on has horses in it and I've been enjoying drawing them. Sometimes it takes multiple attempts to get 'em right but when I do it makes me real happy.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 3243年前
Signing some thumbnails to mail out today! I mostly wrote my first book, Catfoot's Vengeance (originally published as Crogan's Vengeance), in quarter-page thumbnail sketches in 2007/8. I've got these thumbs up on my store, if you're a process person: https://t.co/0ZflPPnyDg 1
Signing some thumbnails to mail out today! I mostly wrote my first book, Catfoot's Vengeance (originally published as Crogan's Vengeance), in quarter-page thumbnail sketches in 2007/8. I've got these thumbs up on my store, if you're a process person: https://t.co/0ZflPPnyDg
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 9813年前
Classic Star Trek Klingon Battle Cruiser drawing for a Patreon backer 1
Classic Star Trek Klingon Battle Cruiser drawing for a Patreon backer
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 18773年前
Hey, it's Albrecht Dürer's 650th birthday today! Celebrate by basking in the radiance of his drawing of Jesus doing communion with pirates 1
Hey, it's Albrecht Dürer's 650th birthday today! Celebrate by basking in the radiance of his drawing of Jesus doing communion with pirates
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 0423年前
I've done next to nothing but this Trigger Keaton fightin' story for the Skybound X anthology for the past couple weeks or thereabouts. But it's done! 1
I've done next to nothing but this Trigger Keaton fightin' story for the Skybound X anthology for the past couple weeks or thereabouts. But it's done!
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 6693年前
I'm currently drawing page after page after page after page of sidekicks fighting stuntmen and I'm having a real good time. 1
I'm currently drawing page after page after page after page of sidekicks fighting stuntmen and I'm having a real good time.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 151283年前
Just saw a thing about learning perspective, and it reminded me how invaluable I found slim-and-to-the-point PAT QUINN's BASIC PERSPECTIVE FOR COMICS & ILLUSTRATION when I was learning it. None of the other books clicked for me but man alive, Pat's was exactly what I needed. 1
Just saw a thing about learning perspective, and it reminded me how invaluable I found slim-and-to-the-point PAT QUINN's BASIC PERSPECTIVE FOR COMICS & ILLUSTRATION when I was learning it. None of the other books clicked for me but man alive, Pat's was exactly what I needed.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 1,7197,7233年前
Thought I'd share my approach to placing figures in an environment, which I use a lot in wider shots that establish the location of a given scene and the spatial relationships of the characters to it, and to each other. 1
Thought I'd share my approach to placing figures in an environment, which I use a lot in wider shots that establish the location of a given scene and the spatial relationships of the characters to it, and to each other.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 11813年前
"Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton is is both incredibly funny and... a fabulous example of how to keep pen and paper action sequences just as dynamic as they are on a moving screen." From this @Polygon's comics spotlight (by @NerdGerhl): https://t.co/YbwOA6Yevi 1
"Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton is is both incredibly funny and... a fabulous example of how to keep pen and paper action sequences just as dynamic as they are on a moving screen." From this @Polygon's comics spotlight (by @NerdGerhl): https://t.co/YbwOA6Yevi
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 5923年前
6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON #3 just went to press. Ain't that a kick! 1
6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON #3 just went to press. Ain't that a kick!
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 141853年前
I'm trying to figure out a fertility monster that an old cult in the deep Smokies would've worshipped, and I'm reckoning on which here design is creepiest. I like antlers because they can be independently present as iconography, but it might be scarier without? Let's vote! 1/2 1
I'm trying to figure out a fertility monster that an old cult in the deep Smokies would've worshipped, and I'm reckoning on which here design is creepiest. I like antlers because they can be independently present as iconography, but it might be scarier without? Let's vote! 1/2
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 9833年前
Process for a couple of panels from a recent educational comics job: roughs for approval (requiring adjustments to include a caption I'd missed putting in), then tightened pencils, inks, and colors. 4
Process for a couple of panels from a recent educational comics job: roughs for approval (requiring adjustments to include a caption I'd missed putting in), then tightened pencils, inks, and colors.
Chris Schweizer@schweizercomics 3523年前
Swing by your local comic shop for chapter three of 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON, on shelves today! If you're looking for plenty of karate fights, mystery, danger, and burgeoning friendship, we've got you covered. 1
Swing by your local comic shop for chapter three of 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON, on shelves today! If you're looking for plenty of karate fights, mystery, danger, and burgeoning friendship, we've got you covered.