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inspiration. Monthly in NYC. All are welcome!
Dare2Draw is a non-profit organization. Our main mission is to help provide networking, mentoring and promoting opportunities, for cartoonists of all levels, while raising money for artists in need. We share resources for artistic development, while encouraging good health and business practices. Live dynamic action models. Drawing contests. Prizes. Music (all kinds). Workshops and break-out groups.
inspiration. Monthly in NYC. All are welcome!
Dare2Draw is a non-profit organization. Our main mission is to help provide networking, mentoring and promoting opportunities, for cartoonists of all levels, while raising money for artists in need. We share resources for artistic development, while encouraging good health and business practices. Live dynamic action models. Drawing contests. Prizes. Music (all kinds). Workshops and break-out groups.
For Artists, by Artists: Together We're STRONGER!
Batman by Mark Chiarello
Big Thank You to our Special Guest
Mark Chiarello
Illustrator and DC Comics Art Director!
For giving us a wonderful, inspirational and frank talk and checking out everybody's cool work!
Thanks to Grace Randolph and Simon Fraser for hosting this month's Dare2Draw!
And Thanks, especially, to
everyone who came to draw with us!
Special Thanks to our friends at The Society of Illustrators and The Blue HIVE Studios staff for putting together another
great evening!
We'll be updating everything soon...
Our next Dare2Draw will be on THURSDAY, June 27th!
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Dare2Draw at
Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd St, Betw. Park and Lex
6 to 9:30 PM Cover $15
Special Mentoring Guest Artist:
Mark Chiarello was born on Halloween, in 1960. His book "Heroes of the Negro Leagues" (Abrams Publishing) was named the second best sports book of 2007, by Amazon.com.
A graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, Mark was fortunate enough to have as roommates, Kent Williams, John Van Fleet, and George Pratt. He worked as an illustrator for Disney World for a short time in the 1980's, then went on to work for Marvel Comics and ultimately DC Comics, where he is currently Art Director.
Mark lives in Maplewood, NJ with his wonderful wife Catherine and wonderful kids, Jack and Rose, and his almost wonderful dog, Oscar.
www.markchiarello.com
A graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, Mark was fortunate enough to have as roommates, Kent Williams, John Van Fleet, and George Pratt. He worked as an illustrator for Disney World for a short time in the 1980's, then went on to work for Marvel Comics and ultimately DC Comics, where he is currently Art Director.
Mark lives in Maplewood, NJ with his wonderful wife Catherine and wonderful kids, Jack and Rose, and his almost wonderful dog, Oscar.
www.markchiarello.com
With Special Guest Hosts
Grace Randolph and Simon Fraser
Grace Randolph
Grace Randolph is the writer and creator of
"Grace Randolph's Supurbia", which is published by BOOM! Studios. Prior to Supurbia, she wrote the mini-series "Marvel Her-oes" as well as "Muppet Peter Pan". She's also written for DC Comics, Archaia, and Tokyopop. Outside of comics, Randolph is the host and creator of one of YouTube's top movie news channels, Beyond The Trailer. And after a year with Marvel as the host and writer of The Watcher, Randolph launched another YouTube channel - Think About The Ink - which covers comic book news and is featured on the hit comic book website Bleeding Cool.
You can find out about all this stuff and more on her website, www.gracerandolph.com
"Grace Randolph's Supurbia", which is published by BOOM! Studios. Prior to Supurbia, she wrote the mini-series "Marvel Her-oes" as well as "Muppet Peter Pan". She's also written for DC Comics, Archaia, and Tokyopop. Outside of comics, Randolph is the host and creator of one of YouTube's top movie news channels, Beyond The Trailer. And after a year with Marvel as the host and writer of The Watcher, Randolph launched another YouTube channel - Think About The Ink - which covers comic book news and is featured on the hit comic book website Bleeding Cool.
You can find out about all this stuff and more on her website, www.gracerandolph.com
Simon Fraser
Simon Fraser is a British comics artist and writer best known for his work on Nikolai Dante, a series he created with writer Robbie Morrison, in 2000 AD. Fraser's early work includes Lux and Alby Sign on and Save the Universe, Roy of the Rovers, and Shimura in the Judge Dredd Megazine, where he first collaborated with Robbie Morrison.
The pair then created Nikolai Dante, a swashbuckling adventure story set amid dynastic intrigue in a future Russia. Returning to the Judge Dredd Megazine, he collaborated with writer Rob Williams on Family, a black and white series about a Mafia family with superhuman powers, which has recently been published as a collected edition. He drew a four-part adaptation of Richard Matheson's Hell House. He has just completed The Adventures of Nikolai Dante for 2000 AD, and is now working on the 2nd book of his proposed Lilly Mackenzie triliogy. which is being published online as part of the online comics collective, Activatecomix.
The pair then created Nikolai Dante, a swashbuckling adventure story set amid dynastic intrigue in a future Russia. Returning to the Judge Dredd Megazine, he collaborated with writer Rob Williams on Family, a black and white series about a Mafia family with superhuman powers, which has recently been published as a collected edition. He drew a four-part adaptation of Richard Matheson's Hell House. He has just completed The Adventures of Nikolai Dante for 2000 AD, and is now working on the 2nd book of his proposed Lilly Mackenzie triliogy. which is being published online as part of the online comics collective, Activatecomix.
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