Sep 15 2008
The in-class exercise for week three is the “wrong planet” assignment here. We’re doing the assignment collaboratively, with each student tackling one section of the story. My section is #2, “lands on the moon…” This assignment has been around since well before this book came out, and has been posted over at teachingcomics.org for a …
Sep 14 2008
Homework for week three was basically just a 3-5 panel newspaper-style strip. I wound up making a list of a dozen or so possible “situations” to build a newspaper strip around, but ultimately got lazy and just went with something I know: musicians. I think the main thing I learned from doing this is just …
Sep 11 2008
I’ll be making the second of my two book festival appearances this year at this weekend’s Bookmarks book festival here in Winston-Salem. The festival is on Saturday and I’ll be at the “All That & then Some” tent (V-2) at 2:30 PM where I’ll be discussing Midnight Sun, comics-making, and comics and graphic novels …
Sep 10 2008
Table assignments for SPX 2008 are now posted online. For quick reference, the above map shows the locations of me and some of my “peeps” who’ll be attending the show. Conspicuously absent, though, are the Wide Awake Press crew as well as the fabulous Josh Latta/Brad McGinty duo. One hopes they’ll jump onboard last …
Sep 08 2008
This is a potential character I’ve been playing around with for my next creator-owned book, tenatively titled Oyster War. I’ve had it in mind that I’d do this book entirely with a dip pen, rather than with my usual tool-of-choice, a #3 brush. I’m having a really hard time weaning myself of the brush, though, …
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