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  • Roundup: Creator Talk with L.J.-Baptiste on Comixscape

    Roundup: Creator Talk with L.J.-Baptiste on Comixscape

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    L.J.-Baptiste’s Creator Talk covered the intricacies of webcomic publishing.  He showed some very early character sketches from the beginnings of Comixscape, when it was called Toonatics, citing early influence from shows like Looney Tunes.
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    He talked about how he developed Tyler, the main character of Comixscape, from a fairly stereotypical creation of L.J.’s childhood into the kid he is today on the page. Comixscape originally began as part of DigBoston‘s Sunday Comics Project, and L.J. decided to migrate it to its own site and eventually put together a team of animators, voice actors, and other production staff to produce the first few pages in animated format (starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1KicfjwHbY).  He has also been working with a long-time collaborator to pitch several animated TV shows to studios in California.
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    Comixscape currently updates twice weekly; L.J. did go on hiatus for a time in order to create all of chapter four as a buffer. The new pages have just begun to be released.  L.J. showed a selection of his original pages and also brought copies of Comixscape #1 to sell.

     

  • Creator Talks: L.J.-Baptiste

    Creator Talks: L.J.-Baptiste

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    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Please join the Boston Comics Roundtable (BCR) for our next Creator Talk with cartoonist L.J.-Baptiste on his webcomic series COMIXSCAPE, a story about the absurd adventures of a young boy and his pet raccoon in his new town. The event will take place at the Boston Comics Workspace at 561 Windsor Street in Somerville, Studio 306, and begin at 2:00 pm on Sunday August 23. Admission is free and open to the public, though a suggested donation of $5 is welcome.

    L.J. will discuss the development of the web series and go over the process of creating each chapter as well as streamlining the upcoming fourth chapter. Additionally, he will go into his technique for creating motion comics, detailing each step from holding auditions, to directing, producing, animating, and all manner of logistics. L.J. will also talk about his forthcoming ventures such as a character song mixtape and how these kinds of outside the panel projects affect his writing.

    It promises to be an engaging afternoon of comics, animation, and fun.

    About L.J.-Baptiste
    L.J.-Baptiste is a 22-year-old artist from Dorchester, MA. His current work is COMIXSCAPE, which he began for DigBoston‘s Sunday Comics Project back in 2013. L.J. continues to work on the series in the hopes of reaching the climactic schoolgirl-zombie apocalypse that will be its final scene.

    Read his comics at http://www.comixscape.net/

    Where: Boston Comics Workspace, 561 Windsor Street in Somerville, Studio 306
    When: Sunday August 23 at 2:00 PM
  • Read “Comixscape” by L.J-Baptiste

    Read “Comixscape” by L.J-Baptiste

    Chapter 3 of COMIXSCAPE  by our own L. J-Baptiste, is about to wrap up at comixscape.net.  Now’s a  good time to catch up on the comic before chapter 4 resumes in March.  COMIXSCAPE is about 12-year old  Tyler Wesley and his adventures in his new neighborhood. Along the way he makes friends, enemies and figures out just where he fits in within the madness that is his new environment!