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 at ComicsReporter. It’s a two-day event starting today, but I’ll just be able to attend on Saturday. Saturday’s portion of the event will be held at the Monroe branch. Guests include Charlotte-area faves Marcus Hamilton, Dustin Harbin and many more. I’ll of course be selling copies of Amelia and my other books. Hope to see you there.
Jun 23 2010
‘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 print this out on bristol board and maybe do some watercolor on it.
Jun 17 2010
Interview at ALA’s Good Comics for Kids Blog
Among the many great folks I had a chance to hang out with a few weeks back at Heroes Con 2010 was Snow Wildsmith, a regional librarian (Mooresville, NC) and blogger for the American Library Association’s Good Comics for Kids site. She did an interview with me on the show floor about all-ages GNs and various other things comics-related, and that interview is now up here. (She also interviewed Chris Schweizer who was sitting next to me, so keep an eye out for that as well.)
Jun 16 2010
My Version of Frazetta’s ‘Sea Witch’
As most any comics-interested folks know, legendary cartoonist/painter/illustrator Frank Frazetta died a few weeks back. I’ve been pretty busy of late (Heroes Con, packing for vacation, vacation, Count of Monte Cristo proposal, etc.) but when I heard the news I was inspired to have a go at a “tribute” drawing of a Frazetta painting. One of my favorites has always been his painting from 1967, The Sea Witch. While it’s not as in-your-face battle axe-ey awesome as his most famous painting, Death Dealer, it’s my favorite Frazetta painting for a number of reasons, mainly the color and composition. I’ll probably comment more on how (and why) Frazetta’s piece is so awesome–and why my “tribute” is totally lame–when I’ve got the thing finished, but here’s the pencils as they now stand.
Jun 15 2010
Amelia: on Booklist’s top 10
Here’s another bit of great press for Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean: The book was named as one of Booklist’s top ten biographies for youth in 2010. The complete list is here.
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