Amigoman 1st Ever Kids Book Available NOW at Amigoman.com!

Well, we finally did it!

Strong Ave. Studios (of Kansas City) has just released it's 1st ever Amigoman Comic/Coloring Book- designed for the beginning learner / Boys & Girls: Grades 1-3 Kids

So...It's Time to Learn to Read Spanish & English with AMIGOMAN - The Latin Avenger!

Strong Ave Studios is proud to announce it's release of it's first, of five, Amigoman - bilingual/coloring comic books geared toward all beginning learners of Spanish and English and for the 1st - 3rd graders!

Currently Only Available at AMIGOMAN.com - for the reduced Web-Price of ONLY $1.75!

This book includes as info about one of the coolest up and coming comic book superheros, coloring pages, two fun pages and best of all - its in two languages - Spanish and English!

Its a great learning tool for anyone just learning English or Spanish - Home or School!

Its about a cool - positive role model superhero!

Its coloring book!

Take a peek at the book at - http://www.amigoman.com/ and order some books for the family or your class today!!

See ya!

AO and the Strong Ave. Studios Staff

Batman by AO - Water Color - Donated to Auction

Another Batman painting - this time it was worked with water color and about 30 inches tall. Donated to an auction - framed and matted - not sure how it made for the orgization.
Let us know what you think. More to come...

Amigoman Large Sketch - Framed

Here is a 3' x 2' sketch/mix media drawing - framed - piece of work I did in '06. Still have and with the fortune of a digital camera - I can post this. Not really for sale - but will take offers...More to come...

Another Great Strong Ave. Studios Comic Book Drawing Class!

Another great comic book art class comes to an end - but for the kids at the KCK Argentine Library, this session was a blast!

Instead of just head drawings, the kids took it to another level and stepped in to the world of drawing the body - one stick figure at a time, of course... it was AWESOME!

More great work from KC's coolest little comic book artists coming soon. Check out more images loading up real soon - and of course check out Amigoman.com!

Amigoman Creator to Give Free Q & A at KC Library!

Come on by the KCK Argentine Branch Library this Saturday Nov.14th from 1 pm - 3 pm for a

FREE Q & A -about creating, writing, publishing, and anything else you may want to know - art will be on display - and free stuff will be given away...

Any questions: Give us a call -
Karen at the library (913.722.7400) or Strong Ave. Studios (913.205.5093).

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Amigoman to be in a syndicated strip with BALDO!

Believe it or not! On October 11, 2009, your friendly neighborhood lating avenger - Amigoman - The Latin Avenger - to be featured in a Sunday comic strip with the world famous "Baldo" comic strip character. The Amigoman featured strip will be appearing on October 11th 2009 in more than 200 of the Sunday newspapers nationwide during the 2009 Hispanic Heritage Month!

Get the details about the project. Cool stuff! - http://www.amigoman.com/html/amigo_baldo_strip.html

or

Check out the Baldo sites at: baldocomics.com/ / baldocomics.com/blog/ & gocomics.com/baldo/

Creator of Amigoman-The Latino Avenger, AO, featured in Aldama's latest publication

WOW! Check this out!

AO was interviewed about his Amigoman comic book character for Frederick Luis Aldama's latest publication - "Your Brain on Latino Comics". Check it out!

August 2009 – Written By Strong Ave. Studios Staff

Well, he is now in a book. Now they are both in a book. Anthony and the Amigoman story. Frederick Luis Aldama, an Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University, asked Anthony for an interview a while back for a book he was writing on Latino comic books. He thought Amigoman - The Latin Avenger was something worth writing about. And now its a reality. Anthony and Amigoman are in the recently published book "Your Brain on Latino Comics" with 21 other artists and writers. "It's is an amazing collection of many amazing, hard working and creative people.", says Anthony.

Here are Some Bits Taken from an interview by

Rorotoko.com

"Your Brain on Latino Comics" is a critical study of Latino comics. But an important feature of it is the inclusion of twenty-one interviews with the actual author/artists of Latino comics. The book joins the theoretical apparatus with the actual practice and experience of the author/artists themselves.I organized the book in this way to allow a deep engagement for those who are interested in this storytelling form a critical perspective as well as for those interested in an actual practice perspective.

Moreover, what we know of Latino comics, and what we know about how our brains process visual and verbal information from panel to panel, both enrich our pleasure in the actual experience of comics – Latino comics and comics generally.In Your Brain on Latino Comics I’m particularly interested in questions such as why author/artists do know that a bold faced word is louder than a non bold-faced word. Why do we imagine movement in the spaces (gutters) between the comics as well as within the panels proper? Why do we each have our own tastes in terms of certain styles of writing and drawing? Your Brain on Latino Comics provides readers with an understanding of how comic books in general work to move us and to engage our critical faculties and imagination. It also opens our eyes to how authors of Latino comic books (and comic strips by the likes of Gus Arriola and Lalo Alcaraz) choose to tell stories in any number of genres and styles: from the superheroic to the domestic, to the bitingly political and satirical.We see in such choices also how author/artists of Latino comics overturn preconceptions of Latinos—not only as represented in mainstream DC and Marvel comics since the first appearance of Firebird (Marvel) and El Dorado (DC) in the late 1970s, but also in the sense that Latinos in comics are much more than Spanglish-speaking, taco-eating, pre-Columbian-ancestrally connected figures. Just as their creators, they represent the full and rich range of human experience and personality types. Your Brain on Latino Comics is the realization of my ambition: to offer a solid understanding of how Latino comic books work, as well as to give readers a firm grasp of the aspirations and goals that these author/artists set for themselves in the creating of comic books. This abundance of voices and takes on the craft should give readers a clear picture of the Latino comic book in the United States today.

Get more at http://www.amigoman.com/html/amigo_LBOC_book.html