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Reading Venice Chronicles

Enrico — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:32:16 +0000

Click on the link below to see a little iphone video of me flicking through Venice Chronicles on the ipad. Forgive me the low quality video but I think it gives you an overall idea of it works. It’s really an interestingly different experience from reading the book. Don’t get me wrong, I love books and I certainly intend to keep on making them, but Whamix really gives us a wonderful tool to make a very immersive reading experience. On the ipad we can really zoom in on given areas of the page and guide the eye from one point of interest to the next. It really features the artwork and its details much more closely! Anyway, let me know what you think!

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Venice Chronicles on your ipad

Enrico — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:34:53 +0000

I have to tell you about Whamix! It’s a brand new ipad comicbook reader that Apurvah Sha (One of the uberminds here at Pixar) has developed in the last few months. When I saw a test on a few pages of The Venice Chronicles I was immediately sold. It really simulates the eye movement on a page and it features the artwork in a beautiful way. Through this reader we can control each area of interest through a page, so the panels get zoomed in and featured in a way that even a book can’t give you. I really think it’s a unique reading experience and the Venice Chronicles on it look like a whole new experience. I have a little video of skimming through a couple of pages, will upload it asap!
So give this a try if you have an ipad and please let me know what you think! All feedback welcome. The library of titles on Whamix! is expanding everyday (In fact I hope to add SketchCrawling Vol1 and Vol2 as soon as possible) but I’m already in great company with some of my friends and pixar co-workers: Ted Mathot, Bobby Rubio, Scott Morse and Everett Downing to name a few.

Artists Sketchbooks

Enrico — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:00:19 +0000

Bobby Chiu has been busy lately! Not only he’s talented illustrator and concept artist but he’s managed to form a nice online community around Schoolism.com and now around “Artist SketchBooks“: a website filled with links to fantastic artists and their work, available either in book form or iphone app sketchbook form. Pretty neat. You might find some familiar names over there …

Venice Chronicles at CBR

Enrico — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:21:10 +0000

The nice folks at ComicBookResources have just posted a review of Venice Chronicles. I published the book with AdHouse almost two years ago, so this was a surprise … a very welcome surprise at that. Check it out (by scrolling down a little at the link).

A Venice Chronicles review

Enrico — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:58:36 +0000

The Comics Journal just posted a review of the Venice Chronicles. Strange to see a review of the book now, more then a year after its release, but hey I’m not complaining.

Heading to San Diego

Enrico — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:05:56 +0000

I will be attending San Diego Comic-Con this year. I am at Booth #4800 with friends Ronnie del Carmen, Scott Morse and Jeff Pidgeon. This is an exciting year given that the Venice Chronicles is nominated for an Eisner Award! I’m also making a new t-shirt just for the Con … photos as soon as I get it from the printer. Hope to see you down there.

On Amazon again

Enrico — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:52:15 +0000

Finally Amazon has the Venice Chronicles in stock again … for the cost conscious, and who is not lately, it’s still the best deal you can find. And don’t miss this other wonderful book, Fio’s favorite!

Eisner Award voting

Enrico — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:56:04 +0000

The Eisner Award voting process has started today. If you enjoyed The Venice Chronicles and are an industry professional please go to this link and vote for the book. thank you!

interview

Enrico — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:48:02 +0000

You can read a recent interview I had with Jeremie Noyer mostly regarding the Venice Chronicles, atAnimated Views in english or atMedia Magic in french. Cheers.

Eisner nomination

Enrico — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:39:05 +0000

Hey there’s some nice Venice Chronicles news. I was nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Book Award under the category “Best Painter/Multimedia Artist”. You can read all the nominations details right here. Great to see some friends like Scott Morse and Kazu Kibuishi nominated. Also great to see one of my favorite books from last year, Jillian and Mariko Tamaki‘s Skim doing so well with many a nomination. In other news, for some strange reason, Venice Chronicles keeps on being “Temporarily out of stock” on Amazon. Seems like some of the distribution channels are a little clogged up, pretty frustrating given it’s status has been like this for months. Well, in the meanwhile I have plenty left and you can purchase the award nominated book straight from me (with doodle and signature). Oh and one last thing, thank you all so much for the wonderful reviews on amazon, they are really encouraging! Thanks.