Couri Vine Blog Posts
You can listen to Vanessa Shealy and Leah Lovise talking comic books, family, and heading to STAPLE! Independent Media Expo this Sept 8 & 9 on the BryFy pocast! Click THIS LINK to listen on the Podbean site, and be sure to share and like this link on Twitter. Thanks for listening!
The Couri Vine co-creators, Vanessa Shealy and Leah Lovise, will be at STAPLE! Independent Media Expo on September 8 & 9. Please come on out and meet us, along with all the other exhibitors!
Leah has been exhibiting Couri Vine at STAPLE! since 2015, when she brought a small print run of Book 1 and sold out our very-first-ever 50 copies. Since then, each year a subsequent Couri Vine Book has made it to our table at the expo.
This year both Leah and Vanessa will be at STAPLE!, and we have a new Couri Vine Book 4 preview ready, as well as our previous books, lots of art, and a new-and-improved Moon City display that has some really fun new surprises. We hope to see you there!
We’ll be at Table #75 at the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex in Austin, Texas on Saturday (11am-6pm) and Sunday (12-6pm).
See the full list of exhibitors and the panel schedule here > http://bit.ly/2KJ6j6k
We did it! Whew – what a ride!! THANK YOU to the wonderful 111 Kickstarter Backers who supported our 2017 Kickstarter campaign! We can’t express our thanks enough for your pledges, your encouragement, your social “shares” and blog posts, your positive thinking, and your faith in indie artists and female comic book creators! Thank you, our rock stars! You did it!
Please stay tuned, especially in the next few days, as we will reach out to you via Kickstarter for the information we need to get you your comicbooks and stickers!!
Thank you again! You are the super heroes in this story, and we are over the moon!
Best regards ever,
Leah and Vanessa
For those who have not attended a comic book workshop led by Leah Lovise, the Collaborative Worksheet is a fun way to learn how to create comics as part of a team.
Explore:
writing, penciling, inking, lettering, and coloring.
Participants get in teams of collaborators (Writer, Penciler, Inker, Letterer and Color Artist) and pass the worksheet around the table to create a three-panel comic strip!
Once you have downloaded the worksheet, follow the steps below.
1. Fold the page inward along the dotted line so that the mad lib at the top doesn’t show.
2. Have your “writer” fill in the invisible columns with the correct number of words (and correct parts of speech, as indicated).
3. Unfold the worksheet and fill in the Mad Lib, then share the story with your collaborators!
4. Pass the worksheet to your penciler, who sketches out the story (beginning, middle, and end) in three panels.
5. Pass the worksheet along to the person(s) who will ink, then letter, and then color your collaborative comic strip!
Need a quick reminder of the different Parts of Speech?
noun: a person, place, or thing (grandma, room, chair)
adjective: a word that describes a noun (smelly, green, alive)
verb: a word that shows an action (run, jump, play)
adverb: a word that describes doing an action (quickly, gracefully, badly)
interjection: a word that expresses emotion (Hey! Oh! Wow!)
onomatopoeia: a word that imitates a sound (bang, splash, buzz)
Share this collaboration by submitting worksheets on-line via Instagram using the hashtag #courivine
Have fun!
Sea monsters and evil robots and mad scientists, oh my!
Like Dorothy, Couri Vine can’t seem to catch her breath. But rather than going over the rainbow, she’s returning to an abandoned Earth.
This welcome return to Couri’s universe never loses its vivid optimism—due to the pluckiness of its courageous young hero. Dorothy may have gotten swept away by the storm, but Couri takes control of every situation she encounters.
The second issue of this exciting series boasts a strong supporting cast, and it reveals the rich history that led up to moving the human civilization to the moon.
Vanessa Shealy’s clever script captures the spirit of contemporary adolescents, while still managing to appeal to adult readers. And Leah Lovise’s gorgeous illustration and brilliant use of color all serve to enhance the storytelling of this fun, adventurous piece.
Check out Couri Vine #2 today!
