Jun 25 2006
I did this in my sketchbook a couple of nights ago. I think it’s inspired partly by that bearded guy that works in the Grand Central hotel in the show Deadwood and partly by the very similar looking character, Skinny, in James Sturm’s book Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight.
Jun 21 2006
Check it out! I got ten right out of fourteen. Of my wrong answers, two were Hitler quotes I mistook for Coulter quotes and two vise versa. powered by performancing firefox
Jun 21 2006
I occasionally post to a Newsarama sketch group that does weekly themed drawing projects. This week’s mission: to reacreate your favorite comic book cover. So…here’s my version of Steve Ditko’s amazing cover to The Thing # 15: And here’s the original: I think my drawing turned out well, but getting that great watercolor coloring with …
Jun 21 2006
Yesterday, Joe Zabel, who conducted the interview with Scott McCloudI blogged about yesterday left me an interesting comment, which I thought I’d reproduce here since it addresses further the always contentious relationship between the media of film and comics. Here’s what Joe had to say: Interesting comment, Ben. As a matter of fact, I’ve criticizedUnderstanding …
Jun 20 2006
It’s an unfortunate situation that there really isn’t a good “nuts and bolts” instructional textbook that covers in any wholistic way the art and craft of creating comics. There are two on the horizon, though, that seemed to show some potential—one is Making Comics by Scott McCloud, the other an instructional text by Jessica Abel …
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