Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Happy Free Comic Book Day!

Today, May 2, in comic shops all across the United States it is Free Comic Book Day! Huzzah! Hooray! “What does this mean?” you ask? It means that any comic shop worth it’s salt is giving away select comics just today. All you have to do is walk in to your local shop and see what…
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Drawn & Quoted: Monstrous Joy

“The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.” – Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)
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Jack Kirby’s Captain America

Well, here’s a comic combo no one ever thought they’d see – a Captain America splash page penciled by the late great Jack Kirby, inked by Chad Frye. My friend Steve Wyatt organizes a comic book convention each year in San Jose, CA called Super-Con. This year the event takes place on May 16 and 17 at…
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Photo Contest Winner Announced!

Over on the Chad Frye • Illustration Guy Fan Page on Facebook, I’ve been running a photo contest for the past month. The instructions were simple – take a photo of yourself with a book, card, poster, piece of art, or even a print-out of something of mine. Be as creative as possible. Photos came…
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Beamed Aboard the Star Trek Scoring Sessions

Earlier this year when I first started this blog, my very first post was to share with you my “courtroom sketches” of a scoring session with composer Michael Giacchino and the music crew for the upcoming Star Trek movie directed by J.J. Abrams. The drawings were originally shown on the website ScoringSessions.com. At the time,…
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Pooh & the Honey Tree

Having worked on television projects with both Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh, I still love to draw the characters from time to time. Usually it’s for friends such as this piece I share with you today. This was a birthday card I made a few weeks ago for a friend on the occasion of…
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NCSF Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship Winner

This week the National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) announced the winner of the second annual Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship given to a college student who shows real promise in the world of cartooning. Entries came in from students all over the country, and after a tough committee process, the NCSF picked their winner. This year…
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Drawn & Quoted: The Wingman

“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.” – Honorè de Balzac (1700-1850) If you really dig this sketch, and you have an account on Facebook, please come check out the Chad Frye • Illustration Guy fan Page where you can read…
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