I just finished reading the first volume of the Fantagraphics collected Captain Easy Sunday strips. I’ve been a big Roy Crane fan for a while, but I was mainly interested in the black and white Wash Tubbs dailies. For whatever reason, I’ve always been really fond of the duotone board technique he used for those… Continue reading »
Sep
04
Sketchbook 9/4
I’ve been doing some of these “girls’ hair” warm-up exercises that John K. posted over at his blog a while back. I’m not wholly happy with them–I think I’m concentrating too much on detail to the detriment of overall form–but I’ll maybe attempt another batch of them soon.
Sep
03
The Mystic Yak
A while back, cartoonist/teacher Andrew Wales was nice enough to send me a big stack of issues of his series, Eclectic Comics. I thoroughly enjoyed the books and am a bit ashamed that it’s taken me so long to drum up a “thank you” sketch to send his way. Here (with some very quick digital… Continue reading »
Aug
31
Process: Oyster War pg. 20 Start to Finish
Well, here’s the finished colored version of pg. 20 of Oyster War that I’ve been posting intermittently at various stages of completion. If I had to do it over again, I’d probably have picked a different page from this chapter to highlight since this page wound up using mostly literal color, not the more expressive/narrative… Continue reading »
Aug
26
Sketchbook 8/26
I haven’t posted anything from my sketchbook recently, so here’re some hands from the current issues of TIME and Vanity Fair.
Aug
22
Proposals: Out with the Old, In with the New
While there are a few (like maybe one or two) editors who’ve not definitively responded to the Count of Monte Cristo graphic novel proposal I’d been working on a month or two ago, it looks like it’s time to consider it officially dead in the water–or at least, “shelved” for the time being. I’m continuing… Continue reading »
Aug
08
I’m a “Character” in Today’s NY Times
My friend (and screenwriter) Angus MacLachlan has a short article in the “Lives” section of today’s New York Times. It’s a true story that takes place in our neighborhood (Angus lives around the corner from me) and the pictured chair lived in my studio for about a year between the events detailed in the story,… Continue reading »
Aug
05
Oyster War Page Progress: Inks
As mentioned a few posts back, I’ve picked a page from the current chapter of Oyster War to post progress on as it moves to completion. I’ve now got that particular page inked, so here it is: As with most everything I draw, this page looked a lot more impressive in my brain, but I… Continue reading »
Jul
31
Local “Comic Book Reading Room”
Notice anything unusual about the image on the cover of our local monthly rag? I sure didn’t. I gave it a cursory flip-through and then left it on the coffee table. My two year old daughter, though, is apparently far more observant than I; she looked at it and then presented it back to me… Continue reading »
Jul
27
Time Lapse
Well, here’s a first–and only marginally successful–attempt to use my webcam for something other than Skyping with relatives. I clipped the thing to my above-drafting table track lights and tried to do a time lapse video of my inking a page from Oyster War. The camera’s too far away by a factor of about two… Continue reading »