A page of “Carob” by Glynnis Fawkes, from our new food-themed anthology Sprouts:
Pre-order our new food-themed anthology Sprouts by May 13 to get it signed, sketched, and shipped for free! Tell your friends! (seriously, it’s a big help)
Transcript of comic: [Read more →]
Categories: anthologies · comics
A page of “Harvest Time” by Stephanie Piro, from our new food-themed anthology Sprouts:
Pre-order our new food-themed anthology Sprouts by May 13 to get it signed, sketched, and shipped for free! Pre-orders increase our first print run – get your copy now and help us cut down on trips to the printer! Tell your friends! (seriously, it’s a big help)
Transcript of comic: [Read more →]
Categories: anthologies · comics
Starting on May 1, 2010 (Free Comic Book Day), Trees & Hills will relaunch its free comic TWIG in a new format. While still a single sheet printed in B&W on both sides, it will now be folded in half to make four 5.5″ x 8.5″ pages and released bimonthly rather than monthly. As before, we will also publish TWIG online as image files to read, with the current issue available as a pdf for anyone to print and distribute.
Our first deadline is April 15, with subsequent deadlines at two-month intervals (June 15, August 15, etc.). We will accept strips from under a page in size (they should ideally fit the width of the page) up to 3 pages long (the front page has less space available because of the title); we can also accommodate a single 8.5″ x 11″ page. Previously published material is fine. All submissions should be suitable for a “general audience”, as we’ll be leaving them around in restaurants & etc. Email 600 dpi B&W or 300dpi greyscale TIFs to organize@treesandhills.org, or mail clean photocopies to us at PO Box 645, Winchester NH 03470.
Categories: calls for submissions · comics · T&H publications · TWIG
Check it out – Greylock Arts of North Adams, MA has put up an online exhibit (with in-person viewing kiosks) of Hourly Comics made by Trees & Hills folk last year (which serves to remind us: Hourly Comics Day is coming, February 1!):
“Hourly Comics Day 2008: A group exhibition of Hourly Comics created by the Trees and Hills Comics Group on February 1st, 2008
Hourly Comic Day is an event where cartoonists from all over the world draw a journal comic for each hour they are awake. The guidelines are simple: “For every hour that you are awake on february first (that’s february first for whatever time zone you happen to be in), you make a comic describing something about the past hour. Maybe you ate some cereal? Maybe you used the restroom? Say you wake up at 7am. make a comic some time before it becomes 8am! then after 8am, make a comic before it becomes 9am!”
Colin Tedford and Daniel Barlow, co-founders of The Trees & Hills Comics Group put the word out to their group. Members of the Trees and Hills group took on the challenge of the hourly comic. This exhibit is a collection of some of the local comics created that day.
A kiosk for viewing both exhibitions will be available at MCLA Gallery51, 51 Main Street, North Adams MA. Gallery51 is open Monday-Sunday 10-5 pm.”
Categories: comics · events · hourly comics day
Photo: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur/Times Argus
By Daniel Barlow
Vermont Press Bureau
Published: November 29, 2008
MONTPELIER – Tim Newcomb has satirized four sitting Vermont governors over hundreds of political cartoons during his 25-year career – and he usually always feels bad about it afterward.
One cartoon this year showed Republican Gov. James Douglas in a rubber boat literally riding a wave of national party contributions soon after vetoing a bill that would place new limits on campaign fundraising.
Newcomb’s Douglas takes key traits from the real-life politician and transforms them into exaggerated quirks as the cartoon version sports just a wisp of hair, a thin frame and oversized glasses across a childlike face.
“Jim Douglas is such a gracious gentleman,” Newcomb said Friday from his downtown Montpelier studio. “He is such a naturally likeable guy that I find myself apologetic to him whenever I see him.”
Read the rest at the Times Argus Web site.
Categories: articles · comics · interviews · vermont
Here is the August issue of our free monthly comics flyer TWIG, featuring work by Adam Kaiser, Colin Tedford, Tim Hulsizer, & Marek Bennett.
Right-click and download the PDF to print, copy & distribute in your area. (current month only) If you do, drop us a line (organize@treesandhills.org) to let us know where you’re putting them so we can know how cool you are!
On to the comics! Click to enlarge.
To submit material, send your 300dpi comics to organize@treesandhills.org (should be suitable for “general audience”).
Here is the fourth issue of our free monthly comics flyer TWIG, featuring work by Tim Hulsizer, Colin Tedford, Jade Harmon, Marek Bennett, & Jennifer Omand.
Right-click and download the PDF to print, copy & distribute in your area. (current month only) If you do, drop us a line (treesandhills@gmail.com) to let us know where you’re putting them so we can know how cool you are!
On to the comics! Click to enlarge.
To submit material, send your 300dpi comics to treesandhills@gmail.com (should be suitable for “general audience”).
TREES & HILLS COMICS EXTENDS 2008 SPRING THAW TOUR
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Fresh off a successful weekend at the MoCCA Arts Festival in New York City, the Trees & Hills comics group extended its Spring Thaw Tour to include a final convention date in New Hampshire.
Members of the social cartooning group will engage the audience at the Arts Alive Festival in Dover, N.H. in a massive participatory comics jam. Festival-goers of all ages will create their own original comics panels and add them to a series of interactive ongoing comic strips, organized by award-winning cartoonist and comics educator Marek Bennett and other members of the Trees and Hills group.
Categories: comics
Here is the third issue of our free monthly comics flyer TWIG, featuring work by Tim Hulsizer, Colin Tedford, Marek Bennett, & Jade Harmon. Sorry it’s so late – MoCCA madness got in the way.
Right-click and download the PDF to print, copy & distribute in your area. (current month only) If you do, drop us a line (treesandhills@gmail.com) to let us know where you’re putting them so we can know how cool you are!
On to the comics! Click to enlarge.
To submit material, send your 300dpi comics to treesandhills@gmail.com (should be suitable for “general audience”).
Here is the second issue of our free monthly comics flyer TWIG, featuring work by Colleen Frakes, Colin Tedford, Morgan Pielli, Tim Hulsizer, & Jennifer Omand.
Right-click here and download the PDF (current month only) to print, copy & distribute in your area. If you do, drop us a line (treesandhills@gmail.com) to let us know where you’re putting them so we can know how cool you are! This month: bring some to your local comic shop for Free Comic Book Day (Saturday, May 3)!
On to the comics! Click to enlarge.
To submit material, send your 300dpi comics to treesandhills@gmail.com (should be suitable for “general audience”).