Caleb Monroe

My Phoenix Comicon Schedule

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:32:10 -0700

I’ll be in Phoenix this weekend for my first Phoenix Comicon. I’ll be signing STEED & MRS. PEEL and ICE AGE (or anything else you bring) at the BOOM!/kaBOOM! booth and be participating in at least 2 panels (both on Friday). The panels:

THE PITCH Friday 1:20-2:30PM Room 124A If you ever want to write for a publisher, you have to master the art of the pitch. Writers and editors discuss the art of the pitch and how to get the attention of publishers.

MARKETING YOUR COMIC TO RETAILERS Friday, 7:30-8:30PM Room 125B So you created a comic… Now how do you get people to read it? Come learn from other fans how they got the creations in the hands of the comic book retailers and other outlets. Your comic could be in more stores than you think.

The booth:

In which I get incredibly nerdy about my January to March...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:23:00 -0700

In which I get incredibly nerdy about my January to March writing productivity:

The total count was over 207 pages. 132 pages comics (blue) and 75 pages prose (red). As you can see, the general pattern was brief periods off, followed by spikes in production, generally clustered around when things were due. (via PAGECOUNTING: 1st Quarter 2013 | Caleb Monroe)

This Weekend at WonderCon

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:42:00 -0700

I’ll be at WonderCon in Anaheim this weekend, Friday and Saturday March 29-30.

I will mostly be a nomad, seeing what I can see and catching up with friends, but there’s one definite place and time you’ll be able to find me: the Breaking into Comics panel! Here are the details:

Breaking into Comics Friday March 29, 2013 3:30pm - 4:30pm; Room 203 Are you an aspiring comic book writer or artist? Then we’ve got the panel for you! Join BOOM! Studios editor-in-chief Matt Gagnon and other comic book professionals (that’s me!) as they give you practical advice on how to make your comic book dreams come true.

Where, When and How to Find Me at Emerald City Comic Con This Weekend

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:30:11 -0800

I will be attending Emerald City Comic Con this weekend in Seattle! While I’ve never been, I’ve had the show’s praises sung to me many times on many occasions, so I’m very much looking forward to it.

I will be signing all day every day (with appropriate food and bathroom breaks, of course) at either the BOOM! booth (#2002) or the kaBOOM! booth (#2102), which are right next to one another. Signing STEED & MRS. PEEL (issue #5 out today!) or ICE AGE, respectively. Come by any time and say hello. Especially if you come in Steed and Peel cosplay or crossplay.

The handy official BOOM!/kaBOOM! singing/panel schedule.

The handy annotated show floor map:

Caleb Monroe and Yasmin Liang take you through Steed And Mrs...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:58:00 -0800

Caleb Monroe and Yasmin Liang take you through Steed And Mrs Peel #4, out this week from Boom!

Caleb Monroe: Welcome! This particular issue is quite near and dear to our hearts; mine because this is my first solo issue after a killer arc co-written with Mark Waid, and Yasmin’s because it’s her first issue on the book. It’s also self-contained, so if you’ve heard or wondered about the series and been looking for a place to jump on and sample the goods, this is it. (via Steed And Mrs Peel #4 - A Writer’s Commentary by Caleb Monroe and Yasmin Liang - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors)

Brilliant show! The band was on stage for a good two hours....

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:18:00 -0700

Brilliant show! The band was on stage for a good two hours. Shirley owns the stage, prowling it like a tiger in a cage. And much like the tiger, you get the sense if you met her in the wild she’d maul you. But you’d like it.

SET LIST:
1. Automatic Systematic Habit
2. I Think I’m Paranoid
3. Shut Your Mouth
4. Why Do You Love Me
5. Queer
6. Stupid Girl
7. Hammering In My Head
8. Control
9. #1 Crush
10. Cherry Lips
11. Blood for Poppies
12. Special
(interlude: partial cover of “Kid” by Pretenders)
13. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
14. Battle in Me
15. Push It
16. Only Happy When It Rains
17. Vow

Encore:
18. I Hate Love
19. The One
20. Man On a Wire (audience request)
21. You Look So Fine

That’s 7 songs off Not Your Kind of People, 6 off Version 2.0, 5 off Garbage, 2 from Beautiful Garbage and a single selection from Bleed Like Me.

DOUBLE, coming soon from Vito Delsante, Julian Lopez and...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:42:03 -0700

DOUBLE, coming soon from Vito Delsante, Julian Lopez and myself!

(via Photo by julianlopezart • Instagram)

(via Celebrate the release of Steed and Mrs. Peel with author...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:33:45 -0700

(via Celebrate the release of Steed and Mrs. Peel with author @CalebMonroe 9/26/2012 7pm » Meltdown, Inc.)

Seeing Jodorowsky’s DUNE-that-never-was has been one of...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:31:37 -0700

Seeing Jodorowsky’s DUNE-that-never-was has been one of the great “I wish”es of my life. Can’t wait for this documentary.

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Poster for the upcoming documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune (possibly the greatest Sci-Fi film that never was). The poster is released by Mondo. More info about the film and the great lineup of artists who worked on the pre-production can be found here.

That’s my co-writer, folks! incogvito: I’m gonna relish...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:30:38 -0700

That’s my co-writer, folks!

incogvito:

I’m gonna relish this one for a long time…thanks @TheRealStanLee

Want to see an art show at the Cooper Union School of Art in NYC...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:21:48 -0700

Want to see an art show at the Cooper Union School of Art in NYC that features comics work by myself and sainted artist Theo Ellsworth? I thought so. Our story “A History of Nonviolence,” which originally appeared in Occupy Comics, has found second life in Cooper Union’s RUPTURES art show, details below. The show began yesterday and runs through the Saturday of New York Comic-Con, so even some of you non-NYC natives can check it out should you so desire. Reception in one week on Wednesday, September 12th.

RUPTURES: FORMS OF PUBLIC ADDRESS

September 4–October 13, 2012
Reception: Wednesday, September 12, 6–8pm
The Cooper Union School of Art
41 Cooper Gallery
41 Cooper Square, Lower Level 1
New York City, NY 10003
Hours: Tue–Sat 11–6pm
www.cooper.edu/ruptures

The School of Art at The Cooper Union is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition and event that explores politically vital issues surrounding public space and speech.

Participating artists:
Ida Applebroog, Doug Ashford, Mircea Cantor, Theo Ellsworth & Caleb Monroe, Ganzeer, Igor Grubic, Sharon Hayes, Iman Issa, Will Kwan, Antoni Muntadas, REPOcommons, REPOhistory, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lincoln Tobier, Liu Wei and Krzysztof Wodiczko

The past year has witnessed a wave of global civil unrest in which demonstrators have used their bodies to physically block or impede the flow of traffic and capital in city streets and public squares. At the risk of harm, imprisonment, or death, people have disturbed the organizing conditions of urban public life through a collective celebration of defiance. Some of these disruptions have produced a space for creative actions within the public sphere, making a claim about democracy drastically different from the guarantees upheld by traditional liberal constitutions.

Curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam, Ruptures: Forms of Public Address is a group exhibition which considers the emancipatory potential of these radical gestures, specifically focusing on how demonstrations and artistic practice are not isolated nor disconnected, but share a similar language of resistance.

The exhibition expands on the discourse surrounding communication and public address investigating art’s role in catalyzing dissensus and difference through a varied approach to speaking and making. It explores the different ways in which artists have brought these issues into their work, ranging from a filmed march involving mirrors as picket signs to choreographic re-enactments of right wing clashes and the distribution of protest signs and pamphlets used in the streets of Cairo.

Situated within the context of the upcoming US elections and the one-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, the exhibition explores the promise and fragility of fearless speech in the aftermath of the 2011 demonstrations, which have erupted across the world in city streets, university campuses, and urban centers. Ruptures pays tribute to the democratic potential of these global movements, while also exploring the risk, dangers, and disassembly of public speech and the subsequent closure of public space.

“A riot is the language of the unheard”: an exercise in unrestrained speech
Saturday, October 6, 4pm
The Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square

Taking its cue from a quote from a 1968 speech about injustice and freedom by Dr. Martin Luther King, this public event engages in the use of the voice in imagining collective and political speech through short readings by artists, scholars, writers, poets, musicians and speakers. Envisioned as a “rough cut” anthology of live subversive speech acts, “A riot is the language of the unheard” is an experimental tribute to parrhesia, or defiant speech.

Contact and directions:
artschool@cooper.edu
Gallery entrance on Third Avenue and E 7th Street, NYC
Subways: Astor Place (6), 8th Street (N, R)

(via Steed And Mrs Peel And Hypernaturals Covers For November |...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:20:38 -0700

(via Steed And Mrs Peel And Hypernaturals Covers For November | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors)

(via Mark Waid’s 4 Panels That Never Work)

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:18:37 -0700

(via Mark Waid’s 4 Panels That Never Work)

Want to read a Marvel/DC crossover comic by the Calebs Monroe...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:59:46 -0700

Want to read a Marvel/DC crossover comic by the Calebs Monroe and Cleveland? Sure you do.

(via Thor Versus Sandman Silent Comic | Caleb Monroe)

Sooo…AWESOME!

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:14:22 -0700

Sooo…AWESOME!

My Official SDCC Schedule

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:37:56 -0700

I will be at San-Diego Comic-Con for the duration again this year. As always, I will be mostly nomadic, but you can locate me for sure at either of the following panels/events.

THURSDAY 7/12:

12:00p-1:00p Editing Comics the BOOM! Studios Way— Top creators Sam Humphries (Ultimates, Higher Earth), Grace Randolph (Supurbia, Marvel HER-oes), Caleb Monroe (Ice Age, Steed & Mrs. Peel), and Michael Alan Nelson (Valen the Outcast, 28 Days Later) join BOOM! Studios editor-in-chief Matt Gagnon and editor Dafna Pleban to talk about the ins and outs of creating comics at BOOM! Studios. Don’t miss this in-depth look into the editing secrets of one of the comic book industry’s leading independent publishers as they discuss editing dos and don’ts. Room 9

9:00p-Whenever The BOOM! Studios 7th Annual Drink-Up A delightful yearly tradition for fans and pros alike. Open invitation, no RSVP needed, no tickets required, no lines to get in and a cash bar! Hilton Bayfront Odysea Bar (1 block south of convention center)

Unofficially, the BOOM! Studios booth (#2743) will be my semi-regular port in the storm. I’ll check in there a few times a day, so if you need to leave me a message or something to sign, that would be the place!

Hope to see you there, Internet!

STEED & MRS. PEEL - The Joseph Michael Linsner Covers for #0 and #1

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:39:24 -0700

Gun made of gold? Check. London Underground belt? Check. Infamous peek-a-boo outfit from “The Fear Merchants” episode? Check.

Issue #0:

Issue #1:

These covers will ship CGC graded 9.8 or higher, and only to retailers ordering 100 or more copies of each book, so they will be quite limited.

greaterthanlapsed: And now, a dolphin with an octopus stuck to...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:19:38 -0700

greaterthanlapsed:

And now, a dolphin with an octopus stuck to its naughty bits

So, this image exists.

Cherry Lips. (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:33:23 -0700

Cherry Lips. (Taken with instagram)

This guy in front of us is an air guitar champion. (Taken with...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:25:19 -0700

This guy in front of us is an air guitar champion. (Taken with instagram)