Animal Alphabet: E is for Echidna

You can follow the other “E” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all the entries so far, check out the Animal Alphabet Tumblr: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com.

E is for Echidna

The original art for this is for sale here.

Portrait Night 4/26 (Herbie Hancock)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Headhunters-era Herbie Hancock:

If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.

“Talking with Tim” Interview at CBR’s Robot 6

I recently did a really enjoyable interview with Tim O’Shea for his “Talking with Tim” feature over at ComicBookResources.com. As is my wont, I wound up flapping my trap overmuch and consequently what probably should have been a short “what are you working on” interview wound up being me rambling on about everything from TinTin and Christophe Blain to digital comics coloring to the current state of the publishing biz to Oyster War:

On any given week, reading Ben Towle’s Twitter feed or Oyster War Tumblr or his blog, I tend to take away some perspective of substance. And that’s what prompted me to do this email interview with him. Rather than explain what ground we tried to cover, I prefer to jump right into the interview, after thanking Towle for his time and thoughts. This interview was conducted prior to Towle’s Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean being nominated in the Eisner Best Publication for Kids category. (more…)

Animal Alphabet: D is for Damselfly

You can follow the other “D” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all the entries so far, check out the Animal Alphabet Tumblr: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com.

D is for Damselfly

The original art for this is for sale here.

Defective Comics Panel Audio Now Available

Last year, at Heroes Con ’10, Craig Fischer and I did one of our (in)famous “mega-presentations” in which we discussed offbeat and oddball superhero comics. One portion of that presentation was a panel discussion featuring Colleen Coover, Jeff Parker, Chris Pitzer and Evan Dorkin–and, at long last, the recorded audio from that panel is now available. You needn’t be dissuaded by the terrible audio quality of my mic because (a) what I’m saying really isn’t important, and (b) the mics of the actual panel participants sound great. While there’s a lot of actual interesting stuff going on in this discussion, it’s also really, really funny. Pop on over to The Dollar Bin podcast and check it out.