December 2006 archive

Stuff I’ve Purchased/Been Listening To Lately:

Tim Buckley – Happy Sad The Beach Boys – Holland The Black Keys – Magic Potion Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding Dirty Pretty Things – Waterloo to Anywhere Dr. Dog – Takers and Leavers The Faces – A Nod is as Good as a Wink… to a Blind Horse Freddie MacGreggor – Bobby Bobylon …

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My Cat-Style Cartooning Technique is Unstoppable

If I ever get around to writing a how-to cartooning book (something I have actually considered), one technique I’m going to champion is learning how to pencil and ink with a real, live–and often moving–cat on one’s drafting table.  My thinking is that this is kind of like those “heavy hands” things that some folks …

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People who are stealing my bit – Part II

Saw this ad for Fantagraphics in the current Comics Journal a few weeks ago: Photoshopped this up a few months back to promote Midnight Sun:

People who are stealing my bit – Part I

Saw this today (from a comic book called Nextwave: Agents of HATE #11 apparently): Drew this years ago:

NRA’s Graphic Novel

NRA’s Secret Graphic Novel Revealed! – Wonkette The artwork in this forthcoming “graphic novel” (that’s really just an illustrated pamphlet as far as I can tell) by the National Rifle Association looks better than 99% of the books that won Ignatz awards at last year’s SPX. The lambasting the book gets from Wonkette (linked above) …

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