The Adventures of Dr. McNews

Here is my schedule of appearances and conventions for 2009! More might be added, specifically a second possible east coast event in March.

March 20-22: The New England Webcomics Weekend: Oh my God, do you know how many webcartoonists are going to be at this thing? A lot. This is probably the closest to an actual webcomics convention anyone's gotten. It's not *really* a convention though. It's free and a lot less formal. But still, LOOK AT THAT GUEST LIST! Yow.

May 9-10: The Toronto Comic Arts Festival: I just love TCAF. Love it to death. This is the place to see me in 2009, Canadians! And it's another free event.

July 23-26: San Diego Comic-Con: It's Comic-Con. What else do I have to say?

Finally, in unrelated news, I owe the cultural phenomenon, Goats a link, because I allowed the mechanical sphinx in Goats to penetrate my subconscious, and come back out again in my own comic. But Jon did the same to me recently, so it's all fine.

posted by Dr. Hastings  # 3:30 PM

Hey guys, just a little reminder that Kent is always doing commissions. This time it's special though, because your money will be going directly to the IRS!

Here's a recent example of his commission work.

posted by Dr. Hastings  # 7:19 AM

Well that was a short search! As soon as Anthony Clark of Nedroid told me that he was interested in the job, I had to get that boy to start coloring. I think you'll all enjoy what he has to bring to the comic, and I think you should really check out Nedroid as well. (He also did a guest comic for us last year.)

Thanks to everyone else who applied for the position! I'm sorry I could only hire one of you.

And here is a farewell from Carly.

Hello, McReaders! By now you have heard that I am stepping down as colorist on Dr. McNinja. It definitely was not an easy decision to make, but with my responsibilities to Venture Bros. I simply was not able to live up to the schedule and quality I know I am capable of delivering. I really relished my time as a part of Team McNinja, and I'm happy to say that I will still be around as cover artist, and contributing in other small ways when I can.

I'm exceedlingly pleased to be passing the torch to Anthony "Nedroid" Clark, one of my favorite internet cartoonists and, I'm sure you will agree, a remarkably talented young lad! When I heard he was throwing his hat in the ring, I knew things would be all right. I look forward to seeing him blow everyone away with his skill!

Thanks to everyone for their support and criticism during my short stint. It's been an absolute pleasure :)

Best,
Carly Monardo

posted by Dr. Hastings  # 1:30 PM

As some of you already know, besides coloring Dr. McNinja, the lovely and talented Carly Monardo is the character and prop color key on the (best cartoon currently on TV) Venture Bros.

But it is with sadness that I tell you that the show is too demanding of her time for her to continue work as colorist on Dr. McNinja. It was either Doc or sleep that had to go. I think Carly chose wisely.

I'm really unhappy to see Carly go. She's immensely talented, and is fun and easy to work with. Thankfully I'll still see her every day, because we're getting married. Still, professionally, very sad. Carly will have her own goodbye to post to all of you once she's officially off the comic, but right now, we need to secure ourselves a new colorist.

EDIT 2/9/09: New colorist found and hired! More info coming soon.

OPEN CALL FOR COMIC COLORIST

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is hiring a colorist for sequential pages. We obviously need somebody who knows what colors look pretty together, and how to arrange them, but of equal importance is the ability to work on a tight deadline. You must be able to color 3 comic pages a week, without fail or tardiness.

The contract will be for a single 25-45 page Dr. McNinja issue, and after that if it looks like you work well with us, and like the job, the contract will be renewed for future work.

The pages are published at drmcninja.com (go ahead and check there to see what sort of work this is), and later on they are collected and printed in trade paperbacks.

The pay is a flat $75 a page. Your work will be shown to an audience of over 100,000 people a day (and that's a conservative number), and we'll happily link to your website if you wish. The Adventures of Dr. McNinja has been favorably reviewed in such publications as The New York Post, The Washington Post, PC Magazine, .Net Magazine, Wizard Universe, and Wired, plus some bazillion blogs.

If you'd like to apply, please send links to samples of your work (attachments won't be opened) to chris@drmcninja.com with the subject "Colorist Application." Please have samples of colored sequential comic pages, and not just single illustrations. I'd like to choose somebody within the next couple of weeks. If I like your samples, there will be other details to go over, but if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in your email.

Thank you very much,
Christopher Hastings
chris@drmcninja.com

posted by Dr. Hastings  # 7:21 AM