• Home
  • History
  • Characters
  • Books
  • BB1
  • BB2
  • BB3
  • BB4
  • BB5
  • BB6
  • BB7
  • BB8
  • Store
  • Extras
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

Archive for August, 2009


Consequences

Consequences

August 10th, 2009

Welcome to www.brilliantboy.com 2.0!

August 10th, 2009

When we first developed the Brilliant Boy concept in the mid-1990s, the easiest way to distribute an idea was on paper. Fast forward to 2009 and technology now allows us to digitally publish an idea to a potentially global audience. The world has changed. But some things will always stay the same, like our love for comic book art and story-telling.

So it is with great pleasure that we are relaunching the Brilliant Boy website, and with it a Brilliant Boy comic strip. There will be a new strip every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and it will follow Brilliant Boy, Bookman, Stymie and Poetica on their daily escapades in small-town Baskerville. We hope you enjoy.

We welcome any comments on the comic or the website. We will do our best to reply. Thanks for reading.

–David

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

99% Perspiration

99% Perspiration

August 12th, 2009

Brilliant Boy in the Cave

August 12th, 2009

I like to share with you a promotional illustration we did for Brilliant Boy when we were still self-publishing our comic books. It captures the essence of the “Drake” storyline (BB#2-6), a vampire tale inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I still like the illustration for I think it shows everything that I want Brilliant Boy to be: adventure, mystery, excitement and fun.

Brilliant Boy in the Cave
In fact, we still use the image today to promote our comics at book fairs, as seen in this photo of a home-made point-of-sales display.

Brilliant Boy POP

–David

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

Shower

Shower

August 14th, 2009

Tightie Whities

Tightie Whities

August 17th, 2009

Type Cast

August 17th, 2009

People sometimes ask us how we came up with the unique and unusual names for our characters. Well, I came up with the idea of Brilliant Boy during my last year of university, where I was studying Visual Communication Graphic Design. I’ve always enjoyed my Typography classes, and had developed a tremendous respect and admiration for the Typographic trade. When I realized that I wanted a motif for my comic book creation, I decided to name my characters after Typographers and Type Faces that I liked, as a way to pay homage to the people who’s work influenced how we perceive the printed medium. So as an underlying theme, I’ve made it a point to name all the inhabitants of Baskerville after Type Faces.

The list below shows the Type Faces that I named my characters by:

Typecast

  • Share/Save/Bookmark
└ Tags: Brilliant Boy, cartoon, Comics

Tonic

Tonic

August 19th, 2009

Power to the People

Power to the People

August 21st, 2009

Tooth Fairy

Tooth Fairy

August 24th, 2009

Next Page ›
  • About Brilliant Boy

    Brilliant Boy is the nickname of Gill, the smartest kid in the town of Baskerville. This strip follows Gill and his friends as they explore the quirkiness of everyday life.

    New strips appear every Monday and Thursday.

  • August 2009
    S M T W T F S
     1
    2345678
    9101112131415
    16171819202122
    23242526272829
    3031  
        Sep »
  • Archives

    • April 2010 (7)
    • March 2010 (12)
    • February 2010 (12)
    • January 2010 (13)
    • December 2009 (13)
    • November 2009 (14)
    • October 2009 (13)
    • September 2009 (15)
    • August 2009 (14)
  • Other Cool Comics

    • Dog Eat Dog
    • Edmund Finney
    • Galaxion
    • KiDD and GEEZER
    • LIO
    • Molly and the Bear
Brilliant Boy © Tim Dang and David Dang.
The Brilliant Boy Comics Website is powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS Feed