Dec 10 2007
Today I closed my Goodreads.com account. I know that many folks use and enjoy the site, bur for me it’s become more of a nuisance than a benefit of late, so I’m bidding Goodreads goodbye. Why? I just don’t have the time to write thoughtful, interesting reviews of books these days. I’ve barely got enough …
Dec 06 2007
A big thanks to Publishers Weekly Comics Week (and editor Heidi MacDonald, and the article’s author Chris Arrant) for this week’s article/interview about Midnight Sun. In 1928, the Italian airship Italia embarked on an expedition to the North Pole and never returned home. Crashed in the arctic climate, the surviving crew of the Italia were …
Dec 04 2007
A while back, I got really into doing these “grid” things in my sketchbook where I’d start with a small image of something and then fill the page with progressive iterations of the image, each new one being drawn based on the one that directly preceded it. I was looking through an old sketchbook last …
Dec 04 2007
If, like me, you’re interested in things cartooning-related, then chances are you’re either reading, done reading, or plan on reading Schulz and Peanuts, the new bio of Peanuts artist Charles Schulz. In the book it mentions that Schulz’s first published work was a one-off “guest strip” in the Ripley’s Believe it or Not comics page …
Dec 03 2007
In addition to the usual holiday treats like seeing friends and family, good food and general good cheer, folks in Winston-Salem have another thing we look forward to each holiday season: the Tanoshii Chinese restaurant’s annual calendar. This year’s theme is the Beijing Olympics and you can see that each animal not only corresponds to …
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