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
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
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
25
The Stones and TinTin
I sent this pic around via Twitter yesterday, but I think it deserves a post here as well. I’m starting to ink Chapter Two of Oyster War and I’ve been streaming documentaries from Netflix in the background as I do. One of the ones I watched yesterday was Stones in Exile, a documentary about the… Continue reading »
Jul
21
My Cartoonist Survey Posted at David-Wasting-Paper
There’s a short survey/interview with me now posted over at the David-Wasting-Paper blog. This is an interesting blog for two reasons beyond just getting to read what various cartoonists say in their surveys. First, the questions for each cartoonist are exactly the same. Second, there are so damn many of them! I’m survey number 145. … Continue reading »
Jul
17
Inked Ukulele One-pager
I hesitate to call this a “comic strip” since it’s about 70% words (maybe “illustrated essay” would be more accurate) but whatever it is, it’s inked. This strip will appear in the Fall issue of Signal to Noise magazine, which is where my previous very wordy one-page music strip about Winston-Salem’s “5″ Royales also appeared.… Continue reading »
Jul
10
Ssalefish Illustration – Finished (Pretty Much)
Here’s a completed illustration I did for my local comics shop, Ssalefish Comics & Toys. I did a rough version of this image on the endpapers of a copy of Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean that I gave the owner, Bret, a while back. He liked the illustration and wanted a more polished version–and… Continue reading »
Jun
25
Tomorrow (Sat. June 26th) Union County Mini-Con
If you happen to be anywhere in the vicinity of Monroe, NC tomorrow, be sure to stop in to the Mini-Con being held there. It’s part of Union West Regional Library’s program to get kids into the library and interested in reading–comics and otherwise. Event organizer John Thompson talks about the event here over… Continue reading »
Jun
23
‘Sea Witch’ Frazetta Tribute Illustration Update
So, despite keeping pretty busy chasing my daughter around while she’s out of school for the summer, doing freelance work, and even a little work on Oyster War, I finally got back to this Sea Witch thing. Here’s the inked and cleaned up version. If my printer can handle it, I’m going to try to… Continue reading »