You can find a short Q&A/interview with me over at the Sweet Union ‘Toonists blog. The blog is promoting the upcoming Union West Regional Library Mini-Con (Indian Trail, NC – June 26-27) where I’ll be appearing along with folks like Al Bigley, Marcus Hamilton, and Chrissie Zullo. Q: When did you first discover comics and …
March 2010 archive
Mar 20 2010
Book Design and Illustration: My Bookhouse Series
My two year old daughter has always been really interested in books (as I’m sure most kids her age are) and so I’ve been thinking a lot about children’s books–specifically, I’ve been thinking a lot about how crappy looking and shoddily constructed most modern children’s books are. At some point, I’m going to maybe do …
Mar 19 2010
Amelia Reviewed in The NY Times
Here’s a pleasant surprise from last week: Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean was reviewed in the Sunday (3/14) New York Times books section–certainly the highest profile review any project I’ve worked on has received. It’s very well written, even captivating at times, and Ben Towle’s black, white and blue art suggests the feeling of …
Mar 18 2010
Craft: Wide Awake Press FCBD 2010 Cover
As they have for the last few years, the folks a Wide Awake Press are putting out a free dowloadable comic for Free Comic Book Day this year. For last year’s issue, Ancient, I was–alas–only able to do a spot illustration. This year, though, I was offered the cover, and of course snapped it up. …
Mar 08 2010
Amelia Press Roundup 3/8
When my last book, Midnight Sun, came out I made a point of posting links to all of the reviews it received. I noticed eventually, though, that most of the more substantive reviews wound up getting links from ComicsReporter and/or Journalista, so I vowed that with whatever book I did next, I’d stop posting review …
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