Nib-Lit

NewTV Workshop: Animation Series: Storyboarding

2012-01-28T15:47:00.000-08:00

Instructors: Michael Sivak of Clambake Animation
Location: 23 Needham Street, Newton MA 02461
Time: Monday, February 20 & 27, 7-9pm

NewTV is proud to offer four exciting new animation workshops taught by instructors from the award-winning studio, Clambake Animation!

Storyboarding is, in many respects, the most important stage of film/television production. It is where the script is transformed from words on a computer screen into a sequential, visual story. It is where concepts of cinematography, stage-setting, blocking and acting are first realized. This two-class workshop will explore the basic concepts of storyboarding and allow participants to create and review storyboards of their own. Concepts addressed will include: tools, methods and techniques, visual storytelling and narrative structure, shot composition, “acting,” and character development, among others. Following this two-week course, participants will have the basic skills necessary to produce their own workable storyboards and/or animatics and will have a strong foundation in the fundamentals of sequential visual narrative.

Michael Sivak has over ten years of professional experience in narrative and visual storytelling. This includes working as Lead Storyboard Artist for the upcoming Adult Swim series Tight Bros. Also, his narrative writing and short-fictional comics have been featured in a number of international publications including SPX Anthology (USA), Noctua Review (USA), Lazer (Belgium), and Revista Larva (Columbia). He is the founder and editor of Nib-Lit, a semi-regular literary comics journal that features the work of well-known and up-and-coming comics artists as well as scholarly content focused on the sequential arts.

FOR MORE INFO, CLICK HERE.

Also in the series:

Learn Flash from Jennifer Jen K Kanis!
http://www.newtv.org/classes/schedule/animation-series-intro-to-flash-animation/

And After Effects from Nathan Smith!
http://www.newtv.org/classes/schedule/animation-series-intro-to-after-effects/

Show Pitch from Carl Adams!
http://www.newtv.org/classes/schedule/animation-series-pitch-workshop/

...and of course, Storyboarding from Yours Truly!
http://www.newtv.org/classes/schedule/animation-series-storyboarding/

$140 for all four courses! Nine class periods total. Good deal!

The Sixteen, Revisited

2012-01-28T08:20:00.000-08:00

Undiscovered Organisms Revisited

2012-01-28T08:07:00.000-08:00

Sivak: Harold Bloom

2012-01-24T22:29:00.001-08:00

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Or CLICK HERE.

Menchi: If you're like me

2012-01-15T18:58:00.000-08:00

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Blank Haven: Daily Status #1: I Woke Up...

2012-01-03T19:00:00.000-08:00

Muntjac

2011-12-11T19:01:00.000-08:00

Homo

2011-12-11T19:00:00.000-08:00

About an hour in the Harvard Museum of Natural History

2011-12-10T19:02:00.000-08:00

More Sketches from the Harvard Museum of Natural history

2011-11-25T19:50:00.000-08:00

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed: #3) the moon above the graves

2011-10-28T11:59:00.000-07:00

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed: #2)The Bassist

2011-10-27T11:41:00.000-07:00

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed: #1) Rejected Aesthetic

2011-10-20T11:34:00.000-07:00

Suspect Device 2 Submission Sneak Peek

2011-10-15T20:00:00.000-07:00

SUSPECT DEVICE BLOG

Josh Bayer's Suspect Device is an awesome anthology, and I was invited by the man to submit a story for Issue #2. Here are a few sneak preview pics:

Midnight Sketch: A Ram's Skull Pieta

2011-09-20T19:59:00.000-07:00

Gestas y Dismas {the perpetually unfinished painting}

2011-08-25T19:40:00.000-07:00

M.T. Bearington and the super-gross kiss!

2011-02-21T07:02:00.000-08:00

Below is an Album Cover concept drawing for M.T. Bearington's new album "Love Buttons," which was just released on Los Wells' Safety Meeting Records. Ultimately, the band went with a photographic version of this, but nowadays this drawing is being used as flyer art by the band.

M.T. Bearington page at Safety meeting Records

Marc Ecko flash insert illos

2011-01-25T20:24:00.000-08:00

I'm famous! Elana Pritchard and the 'toonists plight!

2011-01-03T07:06:00.000-08:00

In her most recent contribution to The Rumpus, cartoonist Elana Pritchard lambasts the web cartoonist trade. My life is held up an an example of the 'toonists plight. I am equally horrified and awestruck by her depiction of me. To paraphrase a good friend: this comic is my greatest compliment and my deepest insult. Cheers, Elana!

Click the image to see the full comic:

Starting today Elana is off to a new town to study under a legendary animator. We all wish her great success on her new endeavor and pray she doesn't forget us little folks and our static images once she achieves it!

Download the Nib Lit Theme Song!

2010-12-16T12:50:00.000-08:00

If you want, you can download the Nib Lit Theme Song "First, Sky, Light" composed by mykl sivak:

First, Sky, Light MP3

Take that, hipsters!

2010-10-15T19:03:00.000-07:00

Aldous Alligator and T.H. Bird

2010-09-25T19:48:00.000-07:00

Check out my other blog!

2010-09-05T18:31:00.000-07:00

http://mgsivak2.blogspot.com/

Let's Make Obnoxious Music Together!

2010-07-27T20:09:00.000-07:00

Ben Franklin portraits, weird and straight

2010-07-25T19:47:00.000-07:00

R.I.P. Harvey Pekar

2010-07-14T19:12:00.000-07:00

In 2003, when the American Splendor film was released, the website hosted a contest where regular folks could illustrate a couple of scripts penned by Pekar himself. I took part, and neither of my attempts won, though both came close. Looking at the comics now, I'm struck by the weird sketchy style of my lines. Never before or since have I drawn in a style like this, and I can only assume it was a manifestation of the extreme stress I was under in my personal life at this time. At any rate, I never had the honor of working with Harvey or officially illustrating one of his comics. Even though these two comics were my unsolicited entries to an open contest, it still felt great to put some images to the master's words. He will be missed.

A comic about Mykl by Athena Tserpeli!

2010-07-14T11:28:00.000-07:00

My "friend" Athena Tserpeli from Greece drew this comic about me. I might be mad if it wasn't 100% accurate.

If anyone else wants to draw a comic about me they can send them to:
mgsivak@hotmail.com
I welcome your abuse.

Finally: Nib-Lit Vol 1.5, Issue 6: The BP Issue! Adults only, Please!

2010-07-08T18:05:00.000-07:00

Nib-Lit Vol 1.5, Issue 6: The BP Issue!

10 big pages of gushing unstoppable vitriol!

With contributions by:
Josh Bayer
Steve Stegelin
Marc Palm
Nicolas Chalupa Chanic
Michele Witchipoo
Jeremiah Billadeau
Alix Maubrey
Andrew Bonia
Levi Jacob Bailey
Tony Millionaire

Plus a photographic image of BP exec Tony Hayward's penis, caught in the moment of Petrol Bukkake climax!

Adults only. Like the Deepwater Horizon spill itself, some of this stuff is offensive.

Update!: There will be a reissue of this issue in the next few days to repair a few minor technical issues. If anyone else wants to send a last minute submission, do it quick!

Lazer Artzine Number 13!

2010-07-07T02:22:00.000-07:00

Hey! Lazer Artzine is a spectacular Belgian art journal. You should buy the new issue (Number 13) because my (mykl sivak's) artwork is printed inside!

http://www.lazerartzine.com/

"Where do you find it ?
If your aren’t in Belgium (who is?) you can buy it on our online shop.
It’s 15 euros (Post included) and you receive a original drawing* by Chanic with. (*ink on paper) Both of Last special issue printed on eco paper, european format A5 (closed), +- 70 pages"

"Lazer©artzine is a project initiated by Chanic, multi-disciplinary artist, working in Belgium. The purpose of the structure is to spread on paper, in a fanzine format,Belgian and international artists, emerging, giving them the opportunity to return to the medium in which these artists in their creative process work and express themselves."

Art from my "Some Gentlemen" series was also printed in issues Number 11 & 12. You can order those issue here, if you like:

Nib-Lit Vol 1.5, Issue 4: Marc Palm Guest Edit #2!

2010-07-06T17:42:00.000-07:00

Nib-Lit Vol 1.5, Issue 4: Marc Palm Guest Edit #2!

Progress: Masked Girl and the Lecherous Sloths

2010-06-25T19:43:00.000-07:00

Nib-Lit 1.5:3 X-tra large 6-pager!

2010-06-19T15:41:00.000-07:00

"Nib-Lit Vol 1.5, Issue 3: It's really big.

Update: Haven Summer Comics Fest 2010 Headliners List (Partial) Announced

2010-06-17T13:09:00.000-07:00

New Haven Comics Fest Poster by Kristyna Baczynski!

Start Time:
Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 10:00am

End Time:
Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 2:00am

Location:
Orbit Gallery
118 Court Street
City/Town:
New Haven, CT
(Just a 5 minute walk from the Metro North train station!)

Featuring panels with and presentations by (longer list coming soon!):

Josh Neufeld, author of "A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge."

Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his fact-based comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and David Greenberger.
Official Website

Robert Sikoryak, author of "Masterpiece Comics."

Sikoryak is a comic book artist who specializes in making comic adaptations of literature classics, producing a mashup of high and low cultures. Under the series title Masterpiece Comics, these include Crime and Punishment rendered in Bob Kane–era Batman style, becoming Dostoyevsky Comics, starring Raskol; and Waiting for Godot mixed with Beavis and Butt-Head, becoming Waiting to Go.
Official Website

Sam Henderson, creator of "Magic Whistle."

Henderson is an American cartoonist, writer and expert on American comedy history. His writing and storyboard directing work on "SpongeBob Squarepants" earned him a nomination for Best Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) in the 55th Emmy Awards.
Official Website
Official Website

Danny Hellman is an American freelance illustrator and cartoonist nicknamed Dirty Danny.

Since 1989, his illustrations have appeared in publications including Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, The Wall Street Journal and others, and his comic book work has appeared in DC Comics publications.
Official Website

Cheese Hasselberger/House of Twelve

House of Twelve is an independent anthology comic book publisher based out of the New York metro area and run by artist Cheese Hasselberger. Ho12 also sponsors a monthly comic art collective held the first Wednesday of every month at Jack Demsey's Pub on 33rd street in New York City, NY. They have been running since August 2001.
Official Website

Submissions requested, Nib-Lit-Picayune: The BP issue!

2010-06-16T13:31:00.000-07:00

If anyone would like to submit some artwork or prose to next week's special issue of the Nib-Lit-Picayune, please send an email to: niblit.comix@gmail.com
The subject matter we're looking for should be related to the BP oil spill.

Nib Lit 1.5:2 w/Guest Editor Marc Palm!

2010-06-12T20:49:00.001-07:00

Special issue edited by Marc Palm, a.k.a. Swellzombie!
and featuring comics by Nikki Burch, Ben Lyon, Levi Jacob Bailey, Marc Palm and Matt Biolchini!

New Haven Summer Comics Fest 2010!

2010-06-06T16:39:00.000-07:00

Help spread the word!

Ideat Village Arts & Music Festival and Nib-Lit Comics Journal Present:
New Haven Summer Comics Fest 2010

Start Time:
Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 10:00am

End Time:
Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 2:00am

Location:
Orbit Gallery
118 Court Street
City/Town:
New Haven, CT
(Just a 5 minute walk from the Metro North train station!)

The New Haven Summer Comics Fest is a one-day event featuring artist and publisher tables; panel discussions; short films and animations directed by and/or featuring work of comics creators; comics slide shows; a keg of free beer (donations requested).

10a-10p: The Fest
10p-2a: The After party (more music, more slide shows, drink specials, drunk cartoonists)

Tables are still available and are free for invited comics creators and visual artists. If you'd like to be invited to participate, send us an email and we will hook you up.
if you live very far away but would still like to participate from afar by submitting a slide show, some pages to display, short films or anything else you think might be appropriate, feel free to contact us and share your ideas.

This event is being held in conjunction with the 2010 Street Fest, which will include a number of events including two stages of live bands (all day and into the night), a rockabilly car show, skateboard demo, booze, food, arts and crafts, and representatives from all your favorite underground subcultures!

More info @:
http://www.ideatvillage.org/

http://nib-lit.com/

Email event coordinator mykl sivak @:
niblit.comix@gmail.com
mgsivak@hotmail.com

Facebook event page

Nib Lit: Shannon Wheeler vs. Tony Millionaire!

2010-05-28T15:02:00.000-07:00

"Nib-Lit Vol 1.5, Issue 1: Shannon Wheeler vs. Tony Millionaire. Six full pages of comics by these fellows!

Fennel & Fingers art

2010-05-25T19:41:00.000-07:00

I'm big in Italy!

2010-05-20T21:40:00.001-07:00

Daniela Petkovic's "This is So Contemporary" arts blog had a contest and I, Mykl Sivak, was one of the winners. My piece was chosen as best by 100% Presi Bene, a collective of Italian DJs/producers/events managers, a.k.a party throwers, and definitely the coolest judges in the contest. Why did they pick my art? Because it reminded them of a "Nofx t shirt and the Sgorbions stickers that we have been collected in the 80's." In case you don't speak Italian, "Sgorbions"is the Italian name for Garbage Pail Kids. That is truly the best compliment I have ever received regarding my art. I hear they will be sending me a 100% Presi Bene t-shirt for winning, but what I really want is to go to one of their parties! It may not be immediately apparent, but I take a lot of inspiration in my artwork from graffiti and street culture. I take a lot of cues from the fashion, music and art of this global subculture and it means a lot to me to have some of its membership recognize me in this way. Thanks 100% Presi Bene; thanks Daniela, or should I say, grazie!

Here is some other press about the contest:

Wait! Magazine

Aymen TV

Catholic Crimefighter!

2010-05-17T20:07:00.001-07:00

Nib-Lit: The Complete Volume One

2010-05-17T17:41:00.000-07:00

Happy half-way-to-X-Mas!
"Nib-Lit: The Complete Volume One" is now available for free download. 12 issues, 25 pages, over 25 creators! You're welcome!

Work in progress: Rocketfish

2010-05-17T08:56:00.000-07:00

Design I'm working on for Miya's Sushi:

Invertebrates...

2010-05-16T22:42:00.000-07:00

I'm big in Belgium: Sivak art @ Lazer Art Zine:

2010-05-16T06:16:00.000-07:00

Check it! Lazer Art Zine #16 features artwork from my "Some Gentlemen" series. You can go to Belgium and pick up a free copy or you can order it online. Pretty cool to represent the ol' US of A in this great international publication:

The Noogie!

2010-05-12T20:45:00.000-07:00

Black and white version:

Color version:

Nib-Lit 11

2010-05-10T15:49:00.000-07:00

Featuring a masthead designed by Marc Palm and a guest column by Mike Wood, author of the novel "Alchemy"!

Plus, all the usual wonderful weirdness by Millionaire, Wheeler, Abadzis, Swellzombie,Baczynski, and sivak!

You're going to read it, and you're going to like it!

Nib-Lit Q & A Podcast, MoCCA 2010: Gabrielle Bell

2010-05-07T13:17:00.000-07:00

Garbielle Bell/mykl sivak mutual armchair psychoanalysis!

Here's the interview I did with Gabrielle Bell last month at MoCCA 2010. I was pretty tired, but I think it wound up being a pretty interesting conversation. Enjoy!

Gabrielle Bell Interview MP3

Nib-Lit Live on the radio!

2010-05-05T15:30:00.000-07:00

Yesterday (5/5/10) I had the opportunity to appear as a guest on WNPR's "The Colin McEnroe Show" to talk Nib-Lit and the Southern Connecticut State University News comics section. The focus of the show was a discussion of what Colin has dubbed "Microlit," or publications with small or niche distribution numbers. It was good fun to participate in the discussion and to speak with other Connecticut publishers/editors who are working on projects that share some similarities with our Nib-Lit project. It was especially fun to talk with Colin who is an intelligent and individual voice and a just plain nice guy. Colin's show truly is one of my favorite on the radio and it was an honor and a great pleasure to be a part of it!

The Colin McEnroe Show: Microlit

Guests' sites:

Gently Read Literature

The Scope Magazine

Venu Magazine

Nib-Lits 4-5, the apparently semi-lost issues!

2010-05-05T08:00:00.000-07:00

I guess these issues were never properly posted here. Enjoy!

Nib-Lit 4(Mislabeled as 3):

Nib-Lit 5:

Nib-Lit 6:

Nib-Lit 10!

2010-05-03T17:22:00.000-07:00

This issue is doubly special in that it features two awesome Nib-Lit firsts!

Number 1: An all new masthead designed by our own Kristyna Baczynski.
As you can see she did an amazing job!

Number 2: Nib-Lit 10 marks the first of a series of comics contributed by one
of our favorite creators, Nick Abadzis!
We are psyched and honored to have him aboard!

Plus, all the usual wonderful weirdness by Millionaire, Wheeler, Swellzombie, Bayer & delaPuente, and mykl sivak!
As the good people at Coca-Cola are oft to say, Enjoy! However, our offerings won't rot your precious teeth!

Psychopathy of a robot ghost

2010-04-30T12:41:00.000-07:00

Nib Lit 9

2010-04-27T19:22:00.001-07:00

Nib Lit, Issue: 01.09 Preview

Mykl G. Sivak draws Marc J. Palm

2010-04-25T20:11:00.000-07:00

Nib Lit dispatches from MoCCA 2010!

2010-04-22T18:23:00.000-07:00

Podcast interviews now available: Matt Loux, Sean Pryor, Mike Dawson, Abby Denson, Tim Fish, Liz Baillie and Josh Bayer.

mykl sivak and Matt Loux photo by Revista Larvae

Matt Loux Interview MP3

Sean Pryor Interview MP3

Mike Dawson Interview MP3

Abby Denson Interview MP3

Tim Fish Interview MP3

Liz Baillie Interview MP3

Josh Bayer Interview MP3

Bill Plypton Interview MP3 (the worst interview in the history of the genre) This is so bad I couldn't even listen to it while mixing it down. My favorite part is when Plympton is clearly so vexed by my terrible interviewing tactics that he starts talking to another person about an unrelated topic during the interview. I hope you enjoy my shame.

Coming soon, interview with: Gabrielle Bell!

After the storm

2010-04-21T11:47:00.001-07:00

First two pages of a multi-page story about two friends exploring a beach the day after a storm:

Space kids!

2010-04-21T11:34:00.001-07:00

Flashback 1996: Ball & Triangle

2010-04-21T11:16:00.000-07:00

Probably the last one of these I ever drew. Think I made while in art school in ATL, GA.

Sake Bomb!

2010-04-21T10:23:00.001-07:00

2 or 3 years ago, I got the idea to make a series of prints for My good friend, chef Bun Lai of http://miyassushi.com/ in New Haven, CT. I wanted to give him the prints as a gift for all the hospitality he'd shown me over the years and for being like a big brother to me. In the end, the prints were a disaster. My equipment was so broken down that no matter what I did everything kept ending up terribly off-register. I still have a stack of really gross prints. I may have given one or two to Bun as proof of my good-hearted attempt. Anyway, here is one of the original drawings I used in the photo emulsion stage of the process. I think it has its own charm. I like seeing the non-photo blue and whiteout. I think it also serves as an example of how even though sometimes things don't really work out as you intend them to, the process itself can be good and rewarding.

Reading outside...

2010-04-20T21:24:00.000-07:00

Nib Lit 8

2010-04-19T15:38:00.001-07:00

Nib Lit, Issue: 01.08 Preview

MoCCA 2010 Recap Column!

2010-04-19T15:29:00.000-07:00

Nib Lit Gets Weird @ MoCCA 2010!

Mykl G Sivak
Comics Editor

On April 9, 2010, I packed my bags and headed to Harlem to sleep on Bam-Bam and the Barbarians creator Josh Bayer’s couch. I helped him clip his Guinea Pig’s toenails. Later, I wandered the city alone and got drunk on Canadian whiskey and tonic. After that, I ate an egg and cheese on a hard roll, downed a coffee and went to sleep. This is why I felt like crap at MoCCA Fest, one of indy comics’ top yearly events. Despite the hangover, I recorded a handful of interviews with a number of comics creators. With the exception of my interview with animation legend Bill Plimpton they all turned out pretty good, I’d say (the Plympton interview is probably the worst one ever).

After the fest, I ate dinner at the Chat ‘n Chew with Tim Fish, Monica Gallager, Tim Piotrowski and a few other notable comics artists who happen to prefer boys to girls. Then it was on to the official MoCCA afterparty at The Village Pourhouse. The party was overcrowded, the drinks were weak and overpriced. I mostly just hung out on the sidewalk with New Haven’s own Andrew Bonia, writer of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and House of Twelve Comics’ Dave McKenna, who I always love talking to.

The sidewalk experience was also good because I finally got to meet Nick Abadzis, Londoner turned New Yorker and writer/illustrator of the acclaimed graphic novel Laika, which is about that dog the Ruskies shot into space. He’s got a comics CV that includes work for Marvel, DC and 2000 AD. I told him how I felt British directors, in their films, love to explore just how precious and quirky their countrymen are. He is a patient and tolerant man.

I hung out with Abby Denson, Matt Loux and a few others for a while. At some point, someone handed me a slip inviting me to a semi-secret afterparty at the Brooklyn loft of some local artists and soon enough Bayer sent me a text inviting me to the same joint. The party was pretty chill. Black Hole writer/illustrator Charles Burns was there too. So, that was cool. I drank a few 22’s of Yuengling beer that cost me a dollar seventy a piece at the corner shop. Gross but cheap. I smoked some Black and Mild cigars and took a few hits off a little bottle of Jameson this girl stole from her roommate. The subway ride back to Harlem took about two hours and the sun was high and yellow by the time I got back. I ate an egg and cheese on a hard roll, downed a coffee and went to sleep. This is why I felt like crap at MoCCA Fest day two.

Bayer and I drove down to the fest on the West Side Highway. There’s a bike path that runs beside the highway along side the Hudson River. We saw some guys in suits and trench coats wandering the path. They turned out to be NYPD homicide detectives. A cluster of them, along with uniformed officers were huddled around a white body bag in the grass beside the path. We could make out the shape of a corpse inside. “A floater,” I said. Then we talked about The Wire for a while.

Considering my double hangover, I think I did a fair job of grabbing a few more interviews, including a weird one with Gabrielle Bell, whose comic Cecil and Jordan in New York was recently adapted to film by director Michel Gondry. Sunday was “family day” at the fest and there were a few kids running around the auditorium. It was interesting to see the hungover cartoonists talking to the children. The whole fest now had a new vibe. Talking to the artists, I had the sense that we’d all been through something together. It felt good.

Comics is often a terribly lonesome thing. The act of creating them is a solitary experience. It is isolated, meticulous work. Often, it’s thankless as well. As an artist, you lock yourself away behind your drawing table in your little artist’s lair. You sweat and fret over line and composition and story arc. You push yourself to take risks, artistically and otherwise. You challenge your own sensibilities and you push yourself to create things at the outer reaches of your philosophical comfort zone. Then you post your art on a blog or personal website and hope that someone somewhere finds some enjoyment from the fruit of your labors. You hope it provokes some thought in the mind of some anonymous websurfer. Then you feel terrible and consider giving up comics altogether.

Facebook friends may give you a thumbs up here and there. If you’re lucky some comics blog might repost your work. But in the whole, you garner little response. This is why events like MoCCA are so important. They uncover the very real community all indy comics artists are a part of. To quote that film My Blue Heaven, “You are so not alone.”

To quote myself: “though comics are initially a solitary endeavor, they open up the possibility of a special type of community. A thoughtful, vibrant and talented community, whose prime psychological directive is one of perpetuating creativity, freedom of thought and communal connection.” I was reminded of this April 11. But perhaps more important than any of this has little to do with the artwork we creators produce. Perhaps, the most import thing that festivals like MoCCA supply us is the simple opportunity to intermingle with like-minded peers. I’m sure I’m not the only comics nerd to feel consistently alienated and/or marginalized by the surrounding masses. However, from April 9th to the 11th, I didn’t feel like a weirdo. I saw that I was a member of a very large club of extremely talented and creative individuals. I saw that we aren’t flawed freaks, but people with unusual and special abilities. To paraphrase, with particular vision comes particular cost.
Maybe I’ll never have a normal life. Maybe I’ll never have a well-paying job. Maybe I’ll never be able to express myself well to the many people that surround me each day. But a few times each year, I get to interact with a group of people I understand and whom I feel understand me. I get to have long conversations about the types of things I think about every day, but don’t always have the opportunity to discuss. I get to discuss the craft, techniques and materials I work with everyday of my life, with others who do likewise. I get to see some people who have actually been able to find success and make a career doing this strange thing I love. This makes me glad for them and hopeful for myself. And best yet, I get to throw a few back with these people I admire so much.

I don’t have to worry about jocks, or fratboys, or elitist intellectual boors who in reality are talentless hacks offering nothing in terms of new thought but are spectacular at intellectual regurgitation. I get to experience art in the making. And this makes the double-hangover doubly sweet.

More Songs

2010-04-16T23:26:00.000-07:00

"Scarborough-ouroboros": background tracks I composed for an early Colony Collapse show. We played noises over this, but it works on its own, I think:

Scarborough-ouroboros

"Second Draft": Also used in an early Colony Collapse show (ends with a version of Scarborough-ouroboros):

Second Draft

"An Introduction": Early Colony Collapse opener:

An Introduction

The Diatom Project

2010-04-16T22:44:00.000-07:00

Sound Landscape project I was working on with Steve Ross a few years back. The compositions were based upon the microscopic world of diatoms and the organisms present during the infancy of life on Earth; Here are my contributions:

Geologicka Session 3

Geologicka Session 1

Another old song...

2010-04-16T17:23:00.000-07:00

I wrote and recorded this song in one sitting late one night shortly after September 11, 2001. Despite a certain lyric, I was not aware of the band "Explosions in the Sky" at the time:
A View of Meteorites From a Deathbed

Some other old techno songs I wrote

2010-04-16T13:19:00.000-07:00

A silly old techno song I made one time about Erik Satie doing absinthe:
Absynth Satie

I wrote this song some years back as an homage to the type of crappy techno I used to listen to late at night on the radio when I was a kid and would sleep in my tent in the backyard during the summer months:
The Epicentre (1993)

I wrote this song years and years ago in the middle of the night and into early morning. Probably keeping Kyle Roller awake in the room below:
Planets That Small

Sivak art @ RKYV:

2010-04-16T06:18:00.000-07:00

Hey, check it out, RKYV #34 features some art I made!:

Nib Lit Showcase!

2010-04-12T22:43:00.001-07:00

I put together this Nib Lit Showcase for MoCCA. if you didn't get one, here's a PDF. It features comical stories by: Howard Cruse, Tony Millionaire, Sean Pryor, Sam Henderson, Steve Skeates, Kristyna Baczynski, Josh Bayer, Joaquin delaPuente Marc Palm, Box Brown, Nicolas Chalupa Chanic, Jarod Rosello, Craig Collins,... Iain Laurie, Dave Alexander, and Mykl Sivak!

MoCCA minicomic:

2010-04-12T22:30:00.000-07:00

If you didn't go to MoCCA or didn't get one from me there, you can download a PDF of the minicomic collection I made for the event here:

Some Gentlemen Poster Art:

2010-04-12T22:08:00.001-07:00

Nib Lit #7

2010-04-12T21:39:00.000-07:00

Nib Lit, Issue: 01.07 Preview:
Hot off the press: Nib Lit #7, featuring art by the usual freaks and a 2 page story by Nicolas Chalupa Chanic!

Contact/Nib Lit Submissions

2010-04-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

mykl g sivak:

mgsivak@hotmail.com
niblit.comix@gmail.com

Ahhhh, childhood!

2010-04-07T21:33:00.000-07:00

Fortune favors the brave?

2010-04-06T19:29:00.000-07:00

Nib Lit #6!

2010-04-06T14:47:00.000-07:00

Nib Lit, Issue: 01.06 Preview:
Featuring art by the usual gang of weirdos, plus the NL debuts of Lazer Art Zine's Nicolas Chalupa Chanic and the legendary Steve Skeates!

Nib Lit 01.05 Preview!

2010-04-01T10:22:00.000-07:00

Nib Lit, Issue: 01.05 Preview:
Featuring comix by: Millionaire, Wheeler, Baczynski, Sam Henderson, Bayer & DelaPunte, Swellzombie, Box Brown, Jarod Rosello, and yours truly.
(Coming later this week: the Wheeler, Millionaire glut issue; so many comics, so few issues!) Enjoy!

Man of the future, part one (pages 1-3)

2010-03-31T14:40:00.001-07:00

Frog and turtle

2010-03-31T14:22:00.001-07:00

The hipster and the bird

2010-03-30T23:31:00.001-07:00

Bumbly Bear

2010-03-29T15:34:00.001-07:00

Jersey Shore Life

2010-03-28T21:36:00.000-07:00

Intense hipster: FB app

2010-03-28T13:18:00.001-07:00

sangich

2010-03-26T17:24:00.001-07:00

A horse is a horse...

2010-03-26T17:18:00.001-07:00

Pimple

2010-03-25T20:50:00.001-07:00

seedling

2010-03-25T20:40:00.001-07:00

This is a Family

2010-03-25T20:13:00.000-07:00

Annoying Nightshade

2010-03-25T18:10:00.000-07:00

Swimmie the Salmon!

2010-03-22T22:37:00.001-07:00

Old West

2010-03-13T22:04:00.000-08:00

Nib-Lit, Vol.1: Issues 0-3, PDFs and Preview

2010-03-09T07:20:00.001-08:00

Pre-air leak! "Too Much Talkshow Man" Nib-Lit Q & A with Shannon Wheeler

2010-02-13T21:30:00.000-08:00

Suckers

2010-02-10T21:53:00.001-08:00

Devil Cat and the Anchor Tuber: True Love

2010-02-07T21:22:00.001-08:00

Erudite greyscale comics of a northeastern metropolitan ilk: bar life

2010-02-04T13:09:00.000-08:00

Erudite greyscale comics of a northeastern metropolitan ilk: summer touring

2010-02-02T20:35:00.000-08:00

Erudite greyscale comics of a northeastern metropolitan ilk: the party

2010-01-27T23:01:00.000-08:00

Erudite greyscale comics of a northeastern metropolitan ilk: one gag, two attempts

2010-01-27T11:01:00.000-08:00

Erudite greyscale comics of a northeastern metropolitan ilk: a ghost story

2010-01-27T10:59:00.001-08:00

Some poems of varying quality

2010-01-25T21:36:00.000-08:00

@ scidino.com

Erudite greyscale comics of a northeastern metropolitan ilk: the artist

2010-01-24T23:41:00.000-08:00