#Dicebox comic full#

Dicebox is also on comic scholar Scott McCloud's top 20 webcomics list, and was used along with Penny Arcade, Fetus-X and Questionable Content as an example of comics using the web to create 'an explosion of diverse genres and styles' in McCloud's 2006 book Making Comics. The Oregonian calls Dicebox the 'gravitational center' of Oregon's 'vibrant Web-comic scene'. Manley Lee's work on Dicebox made her a finalist for the Friends of Lulu's Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent for 2003. The comic, planned for four books totalling 36 chapters, is set in the space-travelling future and is primarily the story of one year in the lives of two women factory workers, Griffen Medea Stoyka and Molly Robbins. What regrets I have mostly involve not being able to draw fast enough, not doing enough yoga, not having enough time to whittle away at the twenty-odd books in my to-read stack, and only having visited Europe once.Dicebox, by American cartoonist Jenn Manley Lee, is a science fiction webcomic which has been hosted at the subscription-based comics anthology site Girlamatic. I appreciate good coffee, good wine, good food, good stories and good company, none of which seems in short supply, thankfully.

#Dicebox comic full#

The home I share with my spouse Kip Manley and daughter Taran is full of books, geeks, art, cats and music, all of which I manage to trip over now and again. I'm also fascinated with symbology that comes in sets of four, yet I can never seem to remember where I fall on the Myers-Briggs scale. Unsurprisingly, I adore icons, symbols and alphabets, and textile patterns of all sorts and provenances. I passed through Anderson, Indiana, then cut my teeth in Long Branch, New Jersey, matriculated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gave Amherst, Massachusetts a whirl, and finally landed in Portland, Oregon. I started out in Clovis, New Mexico on June 14th, as a Gemini with Libra Rising, a Fire Horse, and the first daughter of a first daughter of a first daughter. Genres Graphic NovelsComicsScience Fiction FictionWebcomic. My skills in making art include pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Dicebox is a long-form comic that tells the story of an eventful year in the lives of Griffen & Molly, a couple of itinerant factory workers in a space-traveling future, over the course of 4 books. Briggs, and the artisans of the Edwardian era. In both my writing and art the influences and inspirations are varied and changable, but some reliable landmarks are Trina Schart Hyman, Tom Waits, Ivan Bilibin, Marina Warner, Pamela Coleman Smith, Fritz Eichenberg, Octavia Butler, Boris Artzybasheff, K.M. I've created a print collection of the first book and have it for sale in my store. I'm also the writer and artist of Dicebox, a long-form comic that I've been posting online for about a decade. I've also served as art director for an arts magazine, and was a founding member of the Stumptown Comics Foundation. I have created, prepared, assisted and overseen projects from educational comics to an arts magazine to production specification guidelines.Ĭurrently I work for Ziba Design as a Senior Production Designer, and have spent a good 15+ years in the graphics and design field. I have many years experience in not only drawing and cartooning but graphic design and producing both 2D and 3D projects.