January 2010 archive

Appearance: March Madness at ACME Comics, Greensboro

Yikes… It’s only January and my calendar is already filling up. (I’ve, in fact, added a calendar widget to the blog.)  Right on the heels of my barnstorming Amelia weekend in February, I’ll be appearing at the second annual ACME Comics “March Madness” event March 6th in nearby Greensboro, NC.  This’ll be my first in-store …

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Crogan Adventure Society!

Hey, check out what arrived the mail on Friday: my membership card and official newsletter for the Crogan Adventure Society.  If you’re not in the know, the Crogan Adventure books are a series of all-ages graphic novels about the adventures of the men of the fictional Crogan family.  The first book, Crogan’s Revenge, was about …

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Amelia Book Launch at The Center for Cartoon Studies 2/19

I’ve added one further event to my already busy Amelia weekend extravaganza.  Before hitting Chapel Hill Books for a signing there on Sunday the  21st of February, I’ll be appearing in White River Junction, Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies, along with Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean‘s writer, Sarah Stewart Taylor, for a …

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Amelia Signing/Event – Chapel Hill Comics 2/21

I’ll repost this once we’re closer to the event, but I’ll be appearing at the fantastic Chapel Hill Comics on Sunday February 21st to do a signing for Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean.  I’ll also be using some of the artwork from the book to do a basic “How Graphic Novels Get Made” talk.  …

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Sketchbook 1/16

One of the things I struggle with the most with my drawing is the level of of abstraction, of “cartoonyness” (for lack of a better word) for my characters.  The sorts of comics I enjoy reading most tend to be almost exclusively ones that one would describe as “cartoony,” but for whatever reason (most likely …

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