Dec 31 2012

Sketchbook 12/31/12

I haven’t posted anything from my sketchbook lately–mostly, that’s been because a lot of my evening sketching time over the last few months has been consumed by the AlphaBooks project. Now that that’s over, though, I’ve been back working in my sketchbook on some non-alpha project things. With these sketches I was trying to work on giving figures a strong, discernible “action line” and also really trying to make sure that the hips and shoulders were angled off the center in a dynamic way.

Original sketches up top, cleaned up versions below:

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Dec 06 2012

Spain Rodriguez’s Trashman

As you’ve probably heard, underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez died last week. Here’s a illo I did of his iconic post-apocalyptic Marxist-anarchist superhero, Trashman:

The original art for this is for sale here.

Nov 28 2012

Comics Roundtable at Chapel Hill Comics

Just FYI, if you’re in the Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham area: I’ll be a guest at this comics roundtable this Saturday, December 1st at Chapel Hill Comics. Come on by for a round-robin discussion of the current comics scene with five North Carolina cartoonists–lead by Rio Aubry Taylor. (And also: Chapel Hill Comics is one of the very best comics stores in the United States; you should come by for that too!) You can read more about the event on CH Comics’ website here.

Oh, also: directly after the roundtable, is the My Little Pony comics release party! Come for the comics roundtable; stay for the MLP party.

Nov 20 2012

Oyster War: Now Syndicated Online by GoComics!

Yeah, that’s right: GoComics.com, the home of Peanuts, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, Fox Trot, Cul de Sac, and many, many more amazing comics is now syndicating Oyster War online, starting from the beginning. If you have a GoC0mics account, please pop in and say Hi! And, don’t worry… If you’ve been following Oyster War at OysterWar.com or via Google +, I’ll still be posting new pages there every other Wednesday.

I’m really excited and honored to be hosted by GoComics. Not only am I in some incredibly humbling company, but Oyster War is one of very few long-form narrative strips currently being syndicated there. Hurray!

Oyster War on GoComics

Nov 19 2012

I’m on Sound Opinions Talking About The “5” Royales

A week or so ago I made my second appearance on the call-in segment of NPR’s music show/podcast Sound Opinions. You can find the show here. I’m at the very, very end of the show–around 59:30 minutes–talking about the influence of Winston-Salem’s own “5” Royales on James Brown’s band The Famous Flames, who were discussed the week previous in the show’s “album dissection” of James Brown: Live at the Apollo.

I did a one-page comic about the Royales a while back. If you missed it, here it is: