Jim Zub 🎲
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Storyteller: Avengers, Conan the Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons, Rick and Morty VS D&D, Samurai Jack, Skullkickers, Street Fighter, Thunderbolts, Wayward + more!
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My Patreon page is an archive of my comic writing.
Over 240 comic scripts, pitches, and other behind-the-scenes documents.
Learn how comics are made for the price of a coffee:
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DEAR WIZARDS OF THE COAST-
I WILL WRITE THIS FILM, JUST SAY THE WORD!
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*Guy on the subway sees my Dungeons & Dragons jacket*
G: Heeeey~! D&D!
D&D is the best!
Me: Yeah!
G: I had the craziest D&D thing happen to me...
(I assume we're going to talk about hus current campaign or playing when he was younger.)
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When they say
"The camera adds 10 pounds"
they're not kidding.
Here's the effect with different camera lenses:
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He steps off the train, but turns back to look at me with a big smile and a fist raised as he yells "D&D!!"
Everyone else packed on the train during rush hour looks at me like I'm insane.
Today is starting off strong.
#DnD
#ttrpgs
#ttrpgfamily
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There's a tendency for students using perspective to start a drawing with vanishing points, randomly putting things in and hoping it works.
In my latest lecture, I stressed the importance of starting with a well-staged focal point first, then finding the perspective to match it.
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A well explained overview of NFTs.
This is the most basic argument against crypto that I tell all the people who call me. The tech doesn't work, and the fundamental idea is ahistorical and flawed. Writing it down so I don't have to repeat myself all the time.
The Case Against Crypto
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*Dude glances around and sees what station we're pulling up to*
G: Oh shit, this is my stop. Gotta go.
Me: Thanks for the story.
G: One more quick thing - Wanna know why my guy was called "Dripwell?"
Me: Sure.
G: Because he had a huge dwarf DICK yoooo~!
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G: I got in a bar brawl for real.
Me: Like, in real life?
G: Yeah, yeah, YEAH! A for real bar fight and, as it was happening, all I could think was "Aw shit, this is just like D&D!!"
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Me: Really?
G: Yeah, man and it was a nat 20! A complete tackle to the ground and that dude went down like a sack of potatoes!
Me: What about the other guy?
G: As soon as the first guy went down I scrambled over him and ran right the fuck out of there!
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G: Drippy knows when to get the fuck out of a bad situation. Move those dwarf legs and ruuuuuun, amIright?
Me: Wow. I, uh, I'm glad you didn't get hurt.
G: My shoulder hurt for a couple days. Adrenalin and all that.
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Me: Okaay~
G: So I've got two dudes ready to kick my ass and I'm strategizing like it's all a game. Y'know, improve my armor class or disarm 'em or just anything!
Me: How'd that go?
G: HAHAHA, that's the craziest part!
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G: In my head' I'm freaking out but I'm also thinkin' like "What would Dripwell my Dwarf do" y'know?!
Me: Sure.
G: Well, Drips would fuckin' go for their legs...
Me: So you-
G: So, that's what I did!
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It's tax time so I'm seeing a lot of stressful tweets from freelancer friends. No one gets into freelance art to crunch numbers, but managing that income is part of the job.
Everyone's situation is different, but here are some broad suggestions to help you out in the future:
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I archived the conversation here for future generations to enjoy:
Attached here are photos of my jacket. Unfortunately, it's sold out everywhere online.
And lastly, of course, Dripwell will show up in a future fantasy story I write. :D
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Whatever short term $ advantage Hasbro gained, it's an incredibly foolish long term strategy.
When a division is up 40% year-over-year and you still severely cut staff, you decimate company morale and communicate that no amount of hard work or success will be good enough.
Dungeons & Dragons owner lays off 1,100 staff two weeks before Christmas “to keep Hasbro healthy”
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"How do you get so much work done?"
Step 1: Don't spend 4+ hours a day arguing with people online.
Step 2: Use that time to do work and other things that bring you joy instead.
Step 3: That's it.
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Another perspective drawing lesson:
How to quickly check scale and proportion without a grid!
After critiquing a student's rough room construction I asked if they were okay with me using it as a demonstration since the error they made is a common one.
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Surreal experience just now.
Our Animation department gets 5 minutes notice that
@VancityReynolds
is stopping by to tour the facility.
I tell people to throttle back their expectations. There is no way he'll take photos with people. It'll be too crazy.
I was wrong.
What a champ
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Whatever your thoughts are on Thundercats Roar, these parodies popping up are pretty great.
#ThunderCatsRoar
#CartoonNetwork
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Every time someone writes his name as "Spiderman", an angel cries.
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Received an email from a struggling would-be screenwriter looking at comics as a way to get their story out (and, of course, have it turned into a movie).
Comics are not the dumping ground for your unpublished novel/screenplay/TV show pitch.
Honest.
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Today, one of my students nervously asked me-
"Is
@matthewmercer
as nice in person as he seems online?"
And the answer is "no."
He is even _nicer_.
I was stunned at how kind and generous he was.
I know it sounds a bit dramatic, but we hit it off immediately. He's the real deal.
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Preview pages from RICK and MORTY VS DUNGEONS & DRAGONS
#1
, available at your favorite local comic shop Wed Aug 29!
Story
@PatrickRothfuss
@JimZub
Artwork
@meanwhilestudio
@leonardoito
Editors
@sarahgaydos
@thrillothechase
@DavidHedgecock
@OniPress
@IDWPublishing
@Wizards_DnD
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Inside Versailles is stunning.
That said, if I was a French peasant I would have been in the mob that killed all these bastards.
The opulence almost makes you physically ill.
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Just popping onto Twitter after my morning class-
Apparently you people _really_ like Dripwell! :D
Thanks for all the kind words and signal boosts on this.
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Cab driver: What brought you to LA?
Me: I was here for Comic-Con and then came to LA after for work.
Cab: You worked Comic-Con?
Me: Yeah. I write comics for Marvel.
Cab: Awwwww shi~it, BLAAAAAAAAAAADE, mutha f**kaaAaaaaaaa~!
(This is going to be a good ride to the airport)
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Butt-Kicking For Goodness!
Thank you,
@matthewmercer
. You are the giantest space hamster a legendary ranger could ever want.
#DnDLive2019
#DnD
#CriticalRole
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Hey
#DnD
community-
I'm doing research for a thing.
Tell me the positive effects D&D or other tabletop games have had on your life, and share this with other people so they can tell me too.
@Wizards_DnD
@paizo
@CriticalRole
@TheZoneCast
@SJGames
@wwpublishing
@matthewmercer
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RICK and MORTY VS DUNGEONS & DRAGONS II: Painscape
(D&D comes to Earth along with Rick Sanchez's old D&D characters)
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS VS RICK and MORTY Tabletop Roleplaying Game Adventure
(Rick is your DM and your game will never be the same)
#DnD
#dndlive2019
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Seeing both of these this morning is quite the one-two punch.
Instead of automating menial tasks to free up time for relaxation and creativity, people are hellbent on automating creativity to chain us to menial tasks.
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If you haven't seen "The Thief and the Cobbler," seek it out and marvel at some of the most insanely fun and nuanced classical animation ever drawn on 1's...
The film was never properly completed, but the original scenes are jaw-dropping.
#RIPRichardWilliams
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Conventions...
...Even after all these years, they can still surprise me.
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Nope.
Corporate entertainment/press is always looking for the next trend to elevate or declare dead, when the answer has _always_ been the same-
QUALITY CHARACTERS AND STORIES
That's it.
That's the magic formula.
Do that. Keep doing that.
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These Japanese covers for Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl are top notch!
Well designed, iconic, and eye catching.
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Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor
Into the Spider-Verse won Best Animated
Black Panther nominated for Best Picture
There are 35 films in the IMDB list of Oscar nominated/winning comic-based pictures:
I think we're okay.
Could comic book movies finally break the Oscars in 2020?
@BenSTravis
explores the early awards chances of
#Joker
and
#AvengersEndgame
:
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Ten years of Marvel movies and total global box office domination have all converged at last to give us this moment...My Mom's movie review for AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (SPOILERS)!
Enjoy and feel free to share.
#MomMovieReview
#AvengersInfinityWar
@Avengers
@Marvel
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An artist who occasionally sends me portfolio pages sent a message wondering if they've been blacklisted because they're not getting any response to their latest samples.
I fully understand how frustrating and disheartening that can be, but the answer is probably much simpler-
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Rick Sanchez understands why we people play tabletop RPGs in
Rick and Morty VS D&D II
#1
(in stores now).
(With shout-outs to Relics & Rarities and Critical Role for good measure)
#CriticalRole
#DnD
#RelicsAndRarities
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Okay,
@JacksonLanzing
, on your recommendation I'm watching RRR and it's an Epic Bollywood Shakespearean Musical Action Tragedy.
Don't watch any trailers, friends.
Just dive in and get ready for a ri~~ide.
@RRRMovie
#RRR
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Ms. Marvel is correct. :)
As fun an Easter Egg as referencing 616 was in Multiverse of Madness, I do wish they'd followed the previously established numbering.
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Let me make it simple:
SPIDER-VERSE is the best Spider-Man film and easily one of the BEST comic book films of all time.
You are not ready.
YOU
ARE
NOT
READY
@SpiderVerse
#SpiderVerse
#SpiderMan
#SpiderGwen
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Let's get
#mikewieringo
trending for all the right reasons.
Mike's work was and is the most heroic and joyous version of each character I can imagine. Every image he put to paper felt hopeful and powerful.
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Quick trip to grab food for family. First time to the grocery store in over two weeks.
Midway through my shopping list, I look up and it dawns on me:
I'm the only guy here wearing a mask.
Every woman has one, but none of the men.
Customers, staff, security.
You fucking fools.
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@matthewmercer
I hope your birthday was "double bird to a demon's face into an elegant backward swan dive" awesome, my friend.
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Riri Williams fans + cosplayers:
Not sure if you saw the first look yesterday, but IRONHEART is getting a new armor design that will debut in an upcoming Champions issue!
@St3Caselli
did a wonderful job designing Riri's new look.
@Marvel
@CBCebulski
#cosplay
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Normally I draw on paper for my in-class demos, but the document camera died so we moved to a different class where there was only a digital tablet set up.
Here are the in-class sketches I did while talking about drawing organic forms, with notes added after class.
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An animation industry friend reached out to ask me about creating his own graphic novel.
He assumed, like a lot of entertainment people do, that he could waltz in, get his concept published and then pitch it as a movie/TV show.
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RRR has the emotional highs and lows of three or four films packed into its bombastic 3 hour runtime.
Highly recommended, and the less you know going in beforehand, the better.
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Remember six months ago when I mentioned that comic piracy numbers were easily 20x legitimate buyers and it was a real problem?
Sometime yesterday a bunch of other comic pros looked closer, saw the numbers and the cold chill of it really hit.
Yup.
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If you proudly describe yourself as a "contrarian" or just do stuff "to get a rise out of people", you're not the intellectual powerhouse you imagine yourself to be, you're just a selfish fool with stunted social skills.
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I've posted up examples of student work from the first year Animation Layout & Design class I teach at
@SenecaCollege
(like these Kitchen scenes attached here), but that doesn't really give you the scope of what one of these final drawings entail.
Let me show you-
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You get ONE CHANCE to write a six issue run on one established comic series, which one is it?
For me?
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Jim Zub is a pen name. "Zubkavich" is my Ukranian family name.
My great-grandparents came to Canada and never returned so I don't have deep ties to Ukraine, but it's part of my family history and gut-wrenching to think about the lives that will be lost for political maneuvering
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After the class lecture, one of my students asked me-
"Mr. Zub, I know you like Dungeons & Dragons and do some work with them. Have you heard of Critical Role?"
That turned into a bit of a story...
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Why does
#TheMandalorian
work so well?
◾ Character-focused
◾ Clear stakes
◾ Conflict that drives interesting decisions and reveals motivations
◾ Iconic imagery
◾ Well-balanced nostalgia
◾ Strong and quotable dialogue
◾ Raw parental instincts - Must protect the asset :D
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Here it is, True Believers, my Mom's review of THOR: RAGNAROK!
#MomMovieReview
Enjoy and share.
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Once you understand how to draw things that look solid and consistent you need to learn where to put those things in your scene to organize visual information for the viewer.
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NEW PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT:
The D&D Young Adventurer's Guide series
from
@TenSpeedPress
launches July 16, 2019 with
MONSTERS & CREATURES
and
WARRIORS & WEAPONS
Bring new people into our favorite hobby.
I'm so incredibly proud of these books, gang!
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"Money doesn't buy happiness"
No, but it can absolutely buy the stability and peace of mind that clears a path to finding it.
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Another old man moment in class today-
Students watching old Disney pencil test footage.
Student- The animation is beautiful, but why is it all gray and flickering?
Me- It was drawn on paper and then filmed for the line test.
S- Why didn't they just do it on computer?
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If the rumors are true and MAD Magazine is shutting down, it's a shame and also an important reminder-
Support satire
Support art
Support artists
otherwise they fade away.
#MADMagazine
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Did you miss the insanity that was
D&D LIVE: THE DESCENT Session 4?
HERE are the video streams so you can check it out-
YouTube Part 1:
YouTube Part 2:
Twitch (Part 1 and 2 together):
#DnD
#DnDLive2019
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In 2018, I was co-writing Avengers, writing Champions and Dungeons & Dragons and wrapping up Wayward. So many amazing projects.
Several industry friends told me it was ridiculous that I was keeping my full-time teaching gig at the college. Clearly it was time to quit.
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Wizards of the Coast has released an extensive breakdown of how 2019 was the best year ever for Dungeons & dragons:
All kinds of interesting data there, but this is the pair of charts that has the community talking-
#DnD
#tabletopgames
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That's not how
#TheEternals
looked in 1976.
Modern reprints use colors that are WAY too saturated, giving the false impression that old comics were garish. The newsprint absorbed color, creating more subtlety and appeal even with bombastic Jack Kirby art.
It read more like this
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Dynamite contacted me in May about a possible project and I made it clear I couldn't do it because, amongst other things, they were courting outrage dollars via Comicsgate. I made it pretty clear to them that this stuff would bite them in the ass.
Welcome to July.
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@SteveManale
posted this on FB and I have to signal boost it:
"Seminal Aquaman artist and Metamorpho co-creator Ramona Fradon is drawing comics at age 92.
What's your excuse?"
Want to get a commission from her?
The prices are very reasonable.
Go here:
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FB now tracks what you do on non-FB sites, ON by default.
Go to Settings & Privacy
>Settings
>Your FB Information
>Off-Facebook Activity
>Manage Your Off-FB Activity
>Manage Future Activity
>Manage Future Activity (AGAIN)
Toggle OFF "Future Off-FB Activity"
"Clear History"
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I've worked for almost every major comic publisher in North America.
Big or small, the people at each company make it a pleasure or hassle, a success or failure.
If you treat staff like replaceable widgets, don't be surprised if you quickly lose loyalty, quality, and innovation
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Conceptually, I already love this kind of stuff, but Carl Sagan's excellent vocal timbre and obvious excitement for the material he's showing here makes it irresistibly engaging.
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Flight Attendant: Is there a Cleric or Paladin on this flight?
Mom: *nudging* That would've been you if you'd stuck with Torm
Me: Not now, Mom
Mom: Not asking for a Fighter to help, are they?
Me: Mom, they're making Death Saves
Mom: Go see if your Action Surge is any help
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Okay, my notifications are scorched earth at this point.
I have to mute this thread.
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All Wakanda-related comics are FREE right now on ComiXology, including all 8 issues of my BLACK PANTHER AND THE AGENTS OF WAKANDA series!
Check it out and spread the word:
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Short version: Submitted my grades. My teaching sabbatical starts TODAY.
Long version: In 2018, I was co-writing Avengers, writing Champions and Dungeons & Dragons, and wrapping up Wayward.
Quite a few industry friends told me I should quit my full-time gig at the college...
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My name is
@JimZub
.
I've been playing D&D since I was 8.
It ignited a creative fire in me that has never dimmed.
I've written the official
#DnD
comic since 5th ed launched and recently collaborated on the Rick and Morty VS Dungeons & Dragons crossover mini-series.
#DnDSelfie
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Creative people should have their own website.
Always.
Platforms change.
They rise/fall in popularity.
They throttle viewership and algorithms.
They alter their deal.
Use FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, YT, but never leave yourself completely reliant on them for your web presence.
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Just heard the news that
@RealKevinConroy
has passed away. Wishing his friends and family strength and solace.
For so many of us, he was Batman.
He exemplified the most heroic qualities of the character and inspired so many of us.
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