Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Garen Ewing

@garenewing.bsky.social

1.1K followers 620 following 300 posts

Illustrator, writer, comic creator. Julius Chancer, Curious Expedition 2, Arnie Bird, The Lost Expedition, Logos For Shows & more ... Also historian, karateka and Human. And what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? https://linktr.ee/garenewing

linktr.ee

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Mar 6

I have ended the online preview of The Brambletye Box (for now). You can read more by becoming a Patreon supporter, if you're able, otherwise it's next stop: book! (um, eventually)
Strip: www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/garen

Montage image, promo for my comic strip - The Adventures of Julius Chancer - The Brambletye Box; showing Julius and Sir Alfred standing in the middle, and either side of them four panel extracts, cropped - a museum guard falling back as a person in Chinese costume leaps out; three men in black raising their bowler hats; a female opera singer in 18th century wig and dress, and a Chinese magician waving his hands over a ring of blue flame.

7 14

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ooh yes! I had a toy one with one of those zip-pull things so it shot across the floor :-)

1 2

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 29

I wasn't allowed to join my daughter's school class Facebook group as they thought my name sounded "American". I suspect because they identified Ewing with TV prog Dallas (actually it's a Scottish name).

1 1

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 29

I have a full checklist here: www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi...

The Adventures of Julius Chancer - publications checklist

www.garenewing.co.uk

1 1

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 29

Those were the very first RO pages to see print, in Spring of 1999, three years before part 1 in BAM! Just a preview, really. I think it was only three pages and two were printed the wrong way round!

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks for that post, Richard. If I had any spare copies of anything I'd send them on! (Alas, I don't ...)

1 1

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 23

You too, you deserve all the good things!

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hey Emma - just to let you know I've deleted my previous replies to your post as I've always had a policy of 'no self-pity' on social media and this was a rare lapse. (Emphasise it's my reply, not your post, which makes a very important point - thank you!)

1 2

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 19

A handful of these still available! #smallpressday

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Aug 17

It's #smallpressday and I still have a few copies left of 50zine - a collection of nearly 100 pages of my writing on comics, film, music, games and history I put together for my 50th birthday (well, 4 years after it ...)
garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi...

4 6

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 15

I use DropBox for all my file-moving, but how long before AI creeps into their t+cs as well? (If I haven't missed it already).

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 15

Ah, ok - that's the US terms, these are the outside-of-US terms.

WeTransfer terms + conditions 6: Content (outside of US)

2 1 2

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 15

Is the WeTransfer thing true? This is what's on their website right now.

Screenshot of WeTransfer terms & conditions 6: Content.

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 6

Oh! I thought you were off and away. Well, I'm really pleased about that :-)

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jul 6

You've been fantastic, Andrew. Always impressed by you out in the media - calm, rational, factual and super nice :-) Very sad to see you go, but thank you for all you've done.

1 1

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jun 30

Lovely drawings. Morris Minor for me - a friend had a lovely burgundy one (a bit of a bumpy ride though). Another friend had a Mini but he was something of a boy-racer and souped it up - felt ill whenever he gave me a lift (fault with him more than the car, but it's an association now!)

1 1

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jun 28

A video for the weekend: roughs, pencils and finished art from my adventure comic, The Brambletye Box.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaE-...
#comics #wip #pencils

The Brambletye Box comic - roughs to pencils to finished art

YouTube video by Garen Ewing

www.youtube.com

5 5

Reposted by Garen Ewing

Internet Archive @archive.org · Jun 26

Welcome to the public domain, GODS’ MAN (1929) by Lynd Ward. 🖋️📖 A haunting, wordless story told through woodcuts, this early graphic novel follows an artist’s Faustian bargain.

Read it here ➡️ archive.org/details/gods...
🧵

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #GraphicNovel #ArtLiterature

Title page of the graphic novel “Gods’ Man" framed by "Welcome to the Public Domain" text and graphic. Text reads: God's Man, A Novel In Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. The figure in black in the foreground as two men in the background have their backs to him.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. A man with a peg leg sits, hands spread apart as he looks up.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. Close on the hands of people holding up their hands with varying numbers of fingers extended.

18 360 890

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jun 15

I know what you mean. I often think sound effects are redundant as you do 'hear' the action. I put them in, take them out and then often put them in again! Happy either way, really :-D

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Jun 15

Comics Workshop went well at the the Forest Row Festival yesterday. Here's my 'Anatomy of a Comic' hand-out I (rather hastily) made for a previous workshop a couple of years ago that remains quite useful.

Double-page spread of comics pages and panels showing various parts of a comic: panels, tiers, narration, balloons, establishing shots, close-ups, timing, sound effects, etc ...

1 11 20

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · May 21

That's amazing and wonderful - drawing, colour, composition - the whole art.

1 1

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · May 16

My Dad's 3rd wife was a typesetter. She showed me the huge machines she worked on and typeset a few pages of my fanzine (c.1985). A month later we bought an Apple Mac and a laser printer - her job was gone within months of that.

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · May 16

I worked at a newspaper in the early 90s - computers were just starting to come in, they were used to layout the ads, but the rest of the paper was pasted up old-school - glue, bromides, typesetters, scissors,etc!

2 1 20

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · May 10

@emmaillustrate.bsky.social Beautiful piece of art in your new newsletter. Good luck with it!

1 2

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · May 4

Feel I should post some Star Wars art today - in fact I think I only have one thing, this invite I drew for my son and his friend's 5th birthday (7 years ago). #starwarsday #starwars

Children's birthday invite illustration - a line drawing, coloured, of two 5-year old boys dressed as Jedi with light sabres (one red, one yellow); Darth Vader's head looms in the background of space, also showing the Death Star, TIE-fighters, X-Wings and C3PO and R2D2.

2 14

Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · May 4

As a paid subber to Duolingo I'm hugely disappointed in the move to AI instead of real human translators. I am ending my use of the app.

2 17