Brock Beauchamp

You’ve got red on you

Brock Beauchamp
May 29, 2012

This is the last Blake page of the issue! After this, we finally move back to the detectives in Atlanta, who I haven’t had the pleasure of drawing since early in the summer of 2011. I’ve started work on Variables: Flux 1992 but what you see here is the last completed page I have for Variables. That means I need to get back to drawin’ and push ahead before I can work on re-formatting the comic so don’t expect to see that posted for several more weeks. That’s about all I have this morning. Click through the image below to... View Article

Introducing Variables:Flux!

Brock Beauchamp
May 24, 2012

Some of you know that I’ve never been satisfied with how comics are presented online. Most of the time, they’re a direct scan of a comic page, with no distinction made for the new possibilities granted us with the electronic medium. It’s a click, read, click, reload, scroll, repeat affair that jars the reader out of the experience of the reading process. Part of this problem is the layout of comic pages themselves, others are what I believe to be a lack of foresight within the comic creating community. Why are we replicating what is already available on the printed... View Article

The test goes… poorly

Brock Beauchamp
May 22, 2012

I debated back and forth on whether to update Variables at all today because I’ve spent the past two days working on a huge project that will greatly affect how you read the comic. I don’t know if I will switch the comic to this format entirely or run both it and the format you see here for awhile to gauge reader response. I’ll have more details on it for Thursday’s update, along with an issue for you to read using the new system. It’s pretty awesome and I’m excited to roll it out in full force. This week’s update... View Article

SpringCon 2012

Brock Beauchamp
May 18, 2012

If you’ve been following the site, you probably know that I’m going to be tabling for the first time at SpringCon in St Paul this weekend. The show takes place at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds so if you’re in the area, be sure to come by and visit. For a smallish convention, it packs in loads of top-shelf artists, including Mitch Gerads of The Activity, Christopher Jones of Young Justice, Dan Jurgens (the guy who got to draw dead Superman), Paul Taylor (Wapsi Square), and many others. You can find details and the entire guest list by clicky-clickying the above... View Article

Come see me at SpringCon

Brock Beauchamp
May 17, 2012

I’m a bit apprehensive but I’m going to be tabling at my first convention this weekend in St Paul at SpringCon. It’s been a long time coming to table at a comic book convention and now that I have two complete issues under my belt and a bunch of prints ready to sell, I think it’s time to try my hand at this thing. I don’t know table specifics or anything like that but the convention is at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St Paul. If you’re in the Twins Cities area, come on by and check it out. It’s... View Article

The lab

Brock Beauchamp
May 15, 2012

The first panel on this page is one of the finest I’ve done in Variables. I’m really happy with how it turned out. All that time spent sweating over backgrounds paid off on this page, as I wanted to really give the feeling that this group is operating out of some shady warehouse in an industrial park. I think the page does a good job of conveying that message. As you’ve probably noticed, Variables is updating once a week again… This is because I’m tabling my first convention this weekend at SpringCon on the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St Paul.... View Article