So You Want to Draw Comics? - Artist Spotlight: Buzz (DC, Image, Marvel) @NY Comic Con 2023
/Buzz is a comic book artist and illustrator whom I've known of since the 90's. His works include DC, Image & Marvel titles as well as popular independents like Vengance of Vampirella, Shi and more.
INTERVIEW
Hi my name is Buzz, I'm a comic book illustrator of three decades - an old man! (laughs)
The arrival of the internet gave us an opportunity to promote our [own] work since working for other entities (e.g. DC, Marvel) will always make them more [money] from our work than we ever will. [So] I do not do sequential monthly books anymore because they don't pay s#!t.
Something I tell up-and-coming artists is: "Don't make your aspirations one day to draw X-Men." That can be fine, but once you've done that, what are you going to do? X-Men will outlive you and you don't own the X-Men [brand], right? So find your own artistic voice that outlasts the job that you're working on. That's the most important thing.
Right now, I'm creating a new website called JustBuzzArt.com. I'm building an imprint with that to help other fellow artists find some published work and produce some [of their own] with complete control of their content.
You can find me on Instagram, Facebook and every Sunday at 3pm EST, I do live sketching on WhatNot. It's not just to request and buy pieces of art, but if you're an aspiring artist, there's always someone there asking for tips, how-to's (and how not-to's), along with lots of bad dad jokes. My embarrassed friends will come on and wonder "what are you saying now?" and poke fun.
Buzz (second from left with cap & lanyard)
Do you sell art on your site?
Yes. I will on the new site, but if you go to my whatnot, there's a "Shop" category and you can always purchase stuff on there.
More Info:
https://justbuzzart.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/BuzzArtist/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/buzz_the_artist/
WN: https://www.whatnot.com/user/buzzartist
