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IMPACT author Buddy Scalera will be in attendance at the Long Beach Comic Con next week. As the convention’s programming director, he helped plan all the education panels including an extra awesome one based on his three IMPACT books.

So if you stop by, make sure to check out Buddy’s photo reference panel: How to Use Photo Reference to Improve Your Comic Art starring Buddy, Darick Robertson and other top comic book artists. They’ll demonstrate how you can utilize photographic reference in your comic book art.

If you can’t make it to Cali next week, click below to check out Buddy’s books on photo reference for comic artists. He’s got everybody covered.

Buddy Scalara’s Comic Artist’s Photo Reference: Women and Girls and Comic Artist’s Photo Reference Men and Boys earned three stars from Comic’s Buyer’s Guide in the September 2009 edition. High praise from the longest running magazine about comics. 

Click here to learn more about the Comic Artist’s Photo Reference Series and about its creator, Buddy Scalera.

Click here to purchase some of the best photo reference available for comic, fantasy and science fiction artists.

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IMPACT author Buddy Scalera was recently featured in a “10 Questions” interview on ComicsCareer.com. A writer, editor and photographer, Buddy has written for Deadpool, Agent X, Weapon X, X-Men Millennial Visions, Marvel Knights Millennial Visions, Necrotic, 7 Days to Fame and Decoy, and he’s the author of IMPACT’s Comic Artist’s Photo Reference series (People and Poses, Women and Girls and Men and Boys).

Have you used Buddy’s awesome reference photos to create your own comic art and want to learn more about the guy behind the camera? Click here for the full interview.

Click here for more fun info on Buddy Scalera.

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New York Comic Con 2009 is taking place today through Sunday at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC. If you’re lucky enough to be there, click here to download this handy guide to the educational panels (thanks to Buddy Scalera for providing us with the link!).

Several IMPACT authors (Steve Ellis, Andy Schmidt and Buddy Scalera, to name a few) will be hosting panels, all of which are free with admission, so be sure to check them out!

Click here to go to the official New York Comic Con website.

So, I’m sure you’ve all been finished with your holiday shopping for weeks, months even. But just in case, Buddy Scalera (Comic Artist’s Photo Reference: People and Poses, Women and Girls & Men and Boys) has provided some gift ideas for the artists in your life over at The Pulse. Check it out here.  

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Buddy Scalera has hit the big time. In preparation for the New York Comic Con, Pulse News has run a great interview with the man himself about his work, comics, and most importantly CAPR: Men and Boys. 

Check out the whole thing here.

While I may have had some qualms about buying Hellboy II on DVD, I have no hesitation when it comes to The Dark Knight, which comes out on DVD next Tuesday.

I have to admit that although I truly enjoy most Marvel and DC movies, I probably wouldn’t be first in line on opening night if it weren’t for my fanboy fiancé. The Dark Knight, however, was different. I actually volunteered to go see it a second time in the theater. It’s fast-paced, complicated and takes on some tough moral quandaries. I couldn’t take all of it in the first time. And of course Heath Ledger gives a stellar (and terrifying) performance as the Joker.

OK, I’ll stop gushing now—it’s just a few more days until you can watch The Dark Knight in the comfort in your very own home. In the meantime, need some photo references for drawing your own superhero art? Check out Buddy Scalera’s Comic Artist’s Photo Reference: Men and Boys for more than 1,000 color photos of male models of different ages and body types in action poses.
Click here to purchase a copy for yourself.

Comics writer, editor and photographer, Buddy Scalera has a new book out: Comic Artist’s Photo Reference: Men and Boys. Like the first two books in the CAPR series, this one includes over 1,000 reference photos, a CD-ROM of bonus materials and features work by professional artists David Hahn, Rafael Kayana, Mike Lilly and Mark Smylie, who show you how to use reference photos to create top comic book art.

With all the insights and material for mastering every nuance of gesture, form and facial expression, CAPR: Men and Boys is like having real, live superheroes in your studio (except they won’t need to leave to go fight crime).