hang out in the studio with me and see how a SUPER PARTY comes alive!

Join me in studio, look over my shoulder, as I draw the latest SUPER PARTY…

Just letting you know that I’m switching up the schedule. Super Party is going to be new every Friday. This will be a big help to me in getting the most out of my week and getting more done to get Super Party jumping.

See you Friday!

Now I have launched a new website just for my Beatles art, featuring the two prints I made available at the Revolution 9.9.9 show in San Francisco.

Check out http://beatles.seanward.net! Click here!

Check out my first music video!! Funky Shit #1, performed by Sean Bomb! Directed by me, produced by Jack Stallion Media.

It’s Saturday night as I type this, and I have just finished next Tuesday’s Super Party comics page.  It’s a one-off thing that is totally silly.  It has nothing at all to do with any of the stories I was thinking I would be telling here, and does not tie in at all with any of the big over-arching themes I want to explore.  And it’s one of the favorite things I’ve done recently, and I think it’s some of my best comics.

I did Benny Bunny Meets Benny Banana as a serial on this website because I have had the story pressing to get out for almost a year, and I was dying to get a webcomic going.  This site seemed like the quickest and most direct way to get that story to you.  But serializing it on the web was a completely different thing than issuing it as the comic book I had dreamed it up as.

When I do a comic book, I am very conscious of the book as an object, considering everything from the indicia to the end-papers to the binding.  One of the skills I have worked hardest to cultivate is to work the turning of the page into how I tell the story.

With a webcomic, the story as a singular work and the comics as an object – two of my favorite aspects about issuing a comic book – are gone.  We’re back to looking at each page as it’s own product.  I was going to say that a webcomic is not the best outlet for long-form stories but I can think of several artists who pull it off brilliantly.  I guess it’s just that when I come up with a comics story, I see it as a book and I want it issued as a singular work.

Additionally, I find single-page stories to be an enormous challenge and it’s something I really should get good at.  So I’m feeling like I’m going to keep doing one-off pages weekly here at seanwardsuperparty.com, and issue my stories as a completely separate Super Party comic book series.  I have a lot of fun issuing comic books, promoting them, getting people excited about them, and I think it would be even more fun to have a comic book series and a webcomic going at the same time.  Makes me think of The Beatles, and how the singles were never on the albums.

At the end of the day, this is the whole glorious thing about webcomics, and the web generally.  It’s all one great big work in progress and I’m really excited to see where this all goes, what surprises it holds for me, and what kind of fun you and I can have with it.

After all… at the Super Party, the V.I.P. section is wherever you happen to be sitting!

Super Party will update every Tuesday henceforth. And I’m going to do the next story in square pages, so it will be like designing a record cover every week. What do you think about that?

Over on my personal blog, I’ve taken a moment to share my thoughts and memories about the passing of a great artist, Mr. heinz Edelmann. As the designer of Yellow Submarine, this man is almost the architect of everything you see here.

Click here to see the blog post about it

I’ve got a hot love song for you to hear over on my official blog.  Click here to go right to it!

If you are having issues that I have not listed here, please let me know about it so I can address it!!

• The Disqus comments system does not line up with the rest of the content.  It lines up with the edge of the container, overlapping the border.  I don’t yet know what code to tweak, whether I would do it in my theme editor or Disqus plugin editor.  Are you a Disqus user to knows something about where to go with this?
• The Social Networking plugin is not working.  Have you got a suggestion on a better one?  I want an easy way to thumb-up on StumbleUpon, share on Facebook, etc.
• Someone told me that the site is not lining up right in Safari.  I use Safari and it looks fine.  How’s it look for you?

Those are about it right now.  This is an on-going thing so it’ll be in a constant state of flux.

Thanks to everyone who has given me praise on the new psychedelic site!!