Jamaica D : Blog

Hey, I finally got Wordpress together and moved my blog over to JAMAICAD.COM . This blogspot is going to stay up as an archive, but if you want to see anything new you'll want to go here: JAMAIC...

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Mission: Comics & Art presents "Dee's Siren Song" by San Francisco based artist Jamaica Dyer, who's first graphic novel, Weird Fishes, a collection of her web comic was recently published by S...

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I got to go to Sketchcrawl in San Francisco this Saturday! I've wanted to go to these for years, so it was a great first-time hanging out with a bunch of animators, students and fellow arti...

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My gallery at SLG Boutiki Gallery opened last night! The reception was great, a bunch of cool fans and gallery-walkers came around. If you missed it, you can stop by all month long over at 577 S ...

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/11/signing-and-slg-gallery-opening.html

(this is one of those few times I'll double post comics here and on Weird Fishes .) There are so many people to mention that I didn't get to draw! Jon Bean was a great table partner, and Serena ...

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An amazing time! Hopefully you enjoy my journal/sketches/watercolor comic depicting the moments I can remember from the show. The artists on the Personal Stories panel are all fantastic, go check...

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The Weird Fishes GN is now out in select comic shops! Here the lovely Amy A. shows off a copy at Atlantis Fantasyworld! Here's my zombie girl halloween drawing featuring my lovely roommate...

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/10/weird-fishes-and-sketching.html

I realize that I hate writing blog posts but I love writing in my sketchbook, so why not write my blog entry in my sketchbook! Then it's just a matter of getting it so people can read it.... oh h...

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In preparation for APE, I started working on some TINY canvases that I got at the art store. They're like 2 inches wide. And they will be for sale at the con. I absolutely love working on them. (...

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I finally got myself back into the habit of bringing my sketchbooks around with me. In school this practice was strictly enforced, and it's no big surprise that I ended up going out with my...

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/08/sketching-in-coffee-shops.html

I'm very excited about October! It's just been announced that I'm going to be one of the special guests at APE this year, which is pretty amazing. APE has always been my favorite convention, ...

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Slave Labor put together this amazing trailer for Weird Fishes. I'm really moved by it... you can only spend too much time living with your comic and going through the whole writing process befor...

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/07/weird-fishes-trailer.html

Comic-con's arrived in a storm and I did some last-minute planning to get myself there. I'll be doing some promotion at Slave Labor for the upcoming Weird Fishes graphic novel, I am told there...

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Got a call yesterday that I can do anything I want for the poster as long as it's for a rock show and has the information they need on it and gets done ASAP. So I scribbled up this girl and go...

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/05/rock-poster.html

I'm thinking about doing a children's project with kitties, so I've been doing lots of sketches of the ones I have around here. Enjoy!

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/05/kitty-sketches.html

I've been geeking out over the video game "Persona 3" lately. It's a Japanese fighting game/role playing dating sim where you get engaged in going to school, building up your friendships, deve...

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I finished the cover for Weird Fishes! It took me several weeks to get to this image, after several attempts and lots of planning and sketching. I had to consider how to convey the story in th...

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I've been working on some menu illustrations for Red and 515, two fabulous cocktail lounge/restaurants in Santa Cruz. Just yesterday they made their way into the advertising in the SC Metro newsp...

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/03/cocktail-lounge-illustrations.html

So what have I been doing for the past few weeks? Painting my comic. It's been a rapid change from 1-page a week to doing about 15 a week to finish for my book's deadline. I had a couple weeks of...

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/03/painting-comics-for-ages.html

Here's a spread I got in Your Music Magazine #65 about Weird Fishes. It turned out nicely, and copies of the book are floating around the Bay Area. Not bad!

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2009/02/your-music-magazine-interview.html

While I may not have had a chance to see snow this winter, I did get to work on this action-packed skiing episode of Esurance! Lots of fun characters in this one, and I really like how the backgr...

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Here's the latest page of "Weird Fishes" without letters. I got some new watercolor paper that's pretty nice, and the pad is just about the perfect size for comics. Here's some "in progress" work...

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2008/12/weird-fishes-page.html

Go read the Wine Hobo story online! Thanks to Dark Horse for publishing my weird little story!

http://jamaicad.blogspot.com/2008/12/nightmare-of-wine-hobo.html

The Happy Tree Friends Episode I worked on is online! I cleaned up drawings for a lot of the Splendid and Splendont poses, as well as the exploding whale. It was a VERY surreal moment while clea...

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My latest project is a little comic for Dark Horse Myspace Presents! The story was part of my senior animation storyboarding project and it's pretty cool to see it as a comic... I'll link to i...

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