tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131440102024-03-13T12:19:36.938-05:00Surly Hack Attack!SURLY HACK ATTACK! Hilary Barta's other blogsurly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-81967258965445793222020-12-27T15:24:00.002-06:002020-12-27T15:24:20.594-06:00Spinning My Website<p> <img height="310" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XKwCT_OTCV0/X-j4-z4FOLI/AAAAAAAAdj4/i0WC0C-i9ZYALSa8qrMLnpgE3gxi_WZ9QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h310/image.png" width="640" /><br /><br />I just launched a new website. I'm still working out the kinks, and still uploading art to it. But it will be the center of my online activities, with links to my Patreon page, my blogs, and my instagram account. And it's where you can purchase my original art, prints, and artbook. <br />Currently there is a gallery of comic book covers, and I will be adding more in the coming months. You can visit it <a href="https://www.hilarybarta.com/">here</a>.</p>surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-84535758639542190672020-12-27T11:06:00.001-06:002020-12-27T11:06:28.286-06:00Happy Holidaze! <br /><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AV7Vkcrhlr8/X-i-3JFaunI/AAAAAAAAdjs/kQsxeSreBbkg4J4CfnOipgIwPiH9O-_owCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AV7Vkcrhlr8/X-i-3JFaunI/AAAAAAAAdjs/kQsxeSreBbkg4J4CfnOipgIwPiH9O-_owCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div>In this crazy year we're all isolated on our own little planets. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to each and every one of you, wherever you are!</div>surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-75215065591479972092020-11-18T11:00:00.001-06:002020-11-18T11:00:03.089-06:00Signs of the Times<p> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NjiRGfvenQc/X7VSUY3HDuI/AAAAAAAAdII/o59rCZJrFpErxnESRmFAFkw5KQKXoOXnwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" /><br /></p>surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-73288846768403357512020-10-30T14:14:00.004-05:002020-10-30T14:15:47.999-05:00Swamp and Circumstance<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DiWAAR5bg0A/X5xlzKq3XAI/AAAAAAAAc9s/Y_3uwxjcMfUWson6Rpd-rk4BUWfxIigeACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" /><br /><br /><div>I was thinking about Bernie Wrightson on his birthday, October 27th. Wrightson is one of my artistic idols, and his work has had a huge influence on my art. He is the greatest of all horror artists, and his first success was creating Swamp Thing.<br /><br />With Halloween in mind, I started drawing this Swamp Thing piece. You can see my step-by-step process in creating the drawing on my Patreon page, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/swampy-part-one-43256408">here</a>. Admission is free. Tomorrow I will post the process for the inks there.<br /><br /></div>surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-61187775429605754182020-05-19T18:46:00.000-05:002020-05-19T18:46:42.045-05:00Screwy Tuesday!<img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NaEdi6fsy8U/XsRvCd8ap1I/AAAAAAAAb88/hHNMcqRP2qg9e8gNBEWWeP-IjZjhZPfDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Scan_20200519%2B%25283%2529%2B-%2BCopyright.jpg" width="489" /><br />
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This is the latest of my drawings for <i>Screwy Tuesdays</i>. I post art every tuesday on facebook, twitter, and instagram. Look for the hashtag #screwytuesdays<br />
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surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-71727496513116426292020-01-19T20:48:00.001-06:002020-01-19T20:49:05.749-06:00C2E2 2020I'll be in Artist Alley for C2E2 2020 here in Chicago. The show is being held from February 28 to March 1, a bit earlier than in previous years. These are a few of the other guests at the show.<br />
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<br />Save the date!surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-37876954005025978182019-10-09T16:00:00.000-05:002019-10-09T16:32:46.021-05:00The History of Mystery<img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4vXIkZRillE/XZ5H0Fy7cPI/AAAAAAAAb6I/0_Bfd14xWeklLEAqopZ9HIG2Ko6OwFlaACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/577038_10151108457139423_531712541_n.jpg" /><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;">
I will be a guest at the <i><b>Mystery Mini Con</b></i> at the <a href="https://museums.kenosha.org/public/">Kenosha Public Museum</a>, 5500 First Avenue, Kenosha Wisconsin. The con is part of a larger exhibit at the Museum entitled <i><b>The History of Mystery</b></i>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mystery Mini Con</span><br />
October 19; 11am-4pm<br />
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Meet with special guests, presenters, authors and artists featuring David Saunders, Jeff Butler, Hilary Barta, Tim Seeley, George Hagenauer, Jeff Easley and Jeff Moy. Plus visit the artist alley where vendors will have works for sale.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The History of Mystery</span><br />
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Today Mystery, Crime and Suspense fiction is one of the most popular entertainment genres in America. Millions read mystery novels and short stories – millions more know the genre only through TV, movies or comics. Quite often the genre is seen through one lens – novels, magazines, pulps, comics, movies or television, when many of the writers who created the stories often worked in multiple media. Major novelists also wrote radio scripts, movies and comics – often adaptations of their own characters. The various media and formats interacted in ways that synergistically grew the genre. The children reading the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew grew up to read mystery novels as adults.<br />
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The exhibit starts the story with how memoirs and casebooks by Francois Eugene Vidocq and Allan Pinkerton in 19th century inspired fiction writers to invent the genre in many forms. The exhibit details its growth from there to its current status as a major force in American culture. The story is told through original art from novels, magazines, comic books, comic strips, newspaper serials, pulps and paperbacks by major artists who illustrated the various types of mystery fiction created from 1820 to about 1970. The art is linked to major authors from Poe to Agatha Christie to Elmore Leonard and others from the first 150 years of the American mystery. The artists range from Saturday Evening Post Illustrators to pulp and paper back artists to major names in comic strips and books like Chester Gould, Alex Raymond and Jack Kirby.<br />
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Each of the over 50 displays include detailed text linking the art and writer to the larger context of the development of the mystery genre. In some cases, they spotlight largely ignored aspects of the field like newspaper serialization of novels which brought mysteries to a far larger audience than did their more visible book and magazine publication. It also explores how the graphics changed over time – and varied in how they promoted or augmented the stories- and sometimes misrepresented them!surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-55324116317365609262019-07-10T08:17:00.002-05:002019-07-10T08:18:37.169-05:00Cartoon Cavalcade<img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6F3bNpFftEI/XSXkKWbRGaI/AAAAAAAAb4o/BtRCEQgSBEwr3NGEcXOi30ljcDqlmZX0ACLcBGAs/s1600/Cartoon-Cavalcade-Postcard-Back2.jpg" /><br />
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I will be taking part in the Cartoon Cavalcade show in Elgin, Illinois. Lots of my original pages from SpongeBob Squarepants and Simpsons Comics will be for sale, as well as my licensing art for Betty Boop. Stop by and see me at the opening reception this Friday.</div>
surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-52178837875962905482019-05-20T10:33:00.006-05:002019-05-20T10:33:55.338-05:00Patreon!<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O3U0HRZC1Oo/XOLIbxrz8gI/AAAAAAAAb3M/6TN4V1mzoKQhYNece5BkDDqyWUFZi8fzgCLcBGAs/s1600/2019-05-04.png"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O3U0HRZC1Oo/XOLIbxrz8gI/AAAAAAAAb3M/6TN4V1mzoKQhYNece5BkDDqyWUFZi8fzgCLcBGAs/s640/2019-05-04.png" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><br />
<br />I have started a page on Patreon. Patreon is a platform where folks can support artists and other creatives in this ever changing world of ours. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/hilarybarta">My Patreon page</a> will be where I'll be posting most of my new art, including step-by-step demos of my process in creating comics and illustration, and where I'll give previews of upcoming projects. Come on by and take a look, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/hilarybarta">here</a>.surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-64556678842570204202019-05-04T07:31:00.003-05:002019-05-04T07:31:38.517-05:00Don't start Revolution without me.<img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-etFLaYGbZGU/XM2Fa3Bm9JI/AAAAAAAAb14/8gHAdDPaZnkNak61PL4FHZd0c3YICqetQCLcBGAs/s400/Revolution-6-2019.jpg" /><br /><br />Comic Con Revolution is held at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DESConventionCenter/">Donald E. Stephens Convention Center</a>, June 1st & 2nd, 2019. Come see me in Artist Alley!surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-46837875552379483422019-03-05T11:59:00.003-06:002019-03-05T11:59:59.724-06:00C2E2 2019<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gTJAl1u9fEM/XH6vTOq3LRI/AAAAAAAAbzY/qA1dxhC8FAI81I7xmH2fBoedIYlS0jAsQCLcBGAs/s1600/00000000000-C2E2-2017-2%2B-%2BCopy2.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gTJAl1u9fEM/XH6vTOq3LRI/AAAAAAAAbzY/qA1dxhC8FAI81I7xmH2fBoedIYlS0jAsQCLcBGAs/s400/00000000000-C2E2-2017-2%2B-%2BCopy2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />I'll be a guest at C2E2 2019, March 22-24. Stop by table Z-12 in Artist Alley. I'll be signing comics, drawing a few sketches, and selling original art.<br /><br />I will also have a piece in the C2E2 charity auction to benefit St. Jude Childrens Hospital.<br /><br />And on Saturday, March 23, I'll be signing A Little Help From Our Friends Volume 2, an exclusive C2E2 charity book for the Hero Initiative. Signing takes place at the Hero Initiative booth, 529. Limited to a mere 100 copies, this treasure will be available on Saturday only at the H I booth for a donation of $20. Here's a taste of my contribution to the book:<br />
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I will be a guest at the Northwest Indiana Comic Con, a terrific regional show. I will be selling original art and drawing a few sketches. Drop by if you're in the area.<br />
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Northwest Indiana Comic Con<br />
Saturday, February 23, 2019 from 11 AM – 6 PM<br />
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905 E Joliet St, Schererville, Indiana 46375surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-77636564269398384882018-11-23T16:09:00.002-06:002018-11-23T16:09:41.262-06:00Always!<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-or_q_L-Ju2M/W_huRLBXcgI/AAAAAAAAbxA/ZMPxG7RSo6cIBWt_wKFEZrcr9Jwj4pdtgCLcBGAs/s1600/Scan_20181117%2B%252838%2529.jpg"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-or_q_L-Ju2M/W_huRLBXcgI/AAAAAAAAbxA/ZMPxG7RSo6cIBWt_wKFEZrcr9Jwj4pdtgCLcBGAs/s640/Scan_20181117%2B%252838%2529.jpg" width="474" /></a><br />
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I have been contributing back covers to the comic book ALWAYS PUNCH NAZIS from <a href="http://www.pilotcomics.com/">Pilot Studios</a>. The first one is available now, with more issues to follow.<br />
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This April 7th and 8th I will be a guest at the FACTS comic-con in Ghent, Belgium. <a href="http://facts.be/">More info here</a>. I'll be in artist alley along with fellow Bongo Comics artists James Lloyd, John Delaney, Tone Rodriguez and Andrew Pepoy. Come on by and say hello!<br />
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I'm running an inking workshop at the International School of Comics Chicago on September 23. Here's the school's promo for the event.<br />
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<span class="_4n-j _3cht fsl" data-testid="event-permalink-details">Inktober is a yearly challenge for artists of all levels, from all over the world, in which each artist is required to produce one inked piece a day for every day of October. </span><br />
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This is a piece for <a href="https://www.ulule.com/kirby-me/">Kirby and Me</a>, a tribute book for the centennial of Jack Kirby's birth. The page will be printed in black and white. But just for fun, Terry Beatty colored it like a 1970s Marvel blacklight poster. I love it!surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-55221675626012904512017-04-10T15:03:00.002-05:002017-04-10T15:15:16.312-05:00Aritist Alley Cats<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t2nTqsdX1vc/WOvhisGFcFI/AAAAAAAAbRs/ShyOfcFz72QsRxU6gjmV8We6p_uFs24SACLcB/s1600/00000000000-C2E2-2017-2.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t2nTqsdX1vc/WOvhisGFcFI/AAAAAAAAbRs/ShyOfcFz72QsRxU6gjmV8We6p_uFs24SACLcB/s640/00000000000-C2E2-2017-2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /> C2E2 runs April 21 – 23, 2017. I'll be in Artist Alley all three days. I'm sharing my table with artist Daniel White. Stop by and say hi.surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-31006732966129741032017-01-12T20:09:00.001-06:002017-01-12T20:09:37.800-06:00Schererville Indiana Jones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once again I will be a guest at Brian Grabinski's terrific Northwest Indiana Comic-Con on Saturday, February 25th, 2017. The NWI Comic-Con is held at the Halls of St. George, <span class="_50f4">905 E Joliet St, </span><span class="_50f4">Schererville, Indiana.</span> <br />
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I drew a 3 page <em>Betty Boop</em> comic story for the February 2017 issue of <em>Woman's Day</em> magazine. It's their 'heart health' issue. Color by Jason Millet, lettering by Todd Klein.surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144010.post-7474405244047910172016-11-19T13:57:00.002-06:002016-11-19T14:00:20.944-06:00Someone let me draw Batman. <img height="640" src="https://freshcomics.s3.amazonaws.com/issue_covers/SEP160393.jpg" width="421" />surly hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216490705383147445noreply@blogger.com0