Sep 13 2010
Well it’s finally happened. We all knew it would some day. There came a time on Saturday at SPX where the crowd was so butt-rubbingly, San Diego Comic-Con-ishly close that it wasn’t fun to walk the isles. Anecdotally, I’ve not heard either way whether this late afternoon crowd surge translated into a late afternoon money …
Sep 09 2010
I just finished reading the first volume of the Fantagraphics collected Captain Easy Sunday strips. I’ve been a big Roy Crane fan for a while, but I was mainly interested in the black and white Wash Tubbs dailies. For whatever reason, I’ve always been really fond of the duotone board technique he used for those …
Sep 04 2010
I’ve been doing some of these “girls’ hair” warm-up exercises that John K. posted over at his blog a while back. I’m not wholly happy with them–I think I’m concentrating too much on detail to the detriment of overall form–but I’ll maybe attempt another batch of them soon.
Sep 03 2010
A while back, cartoonist/teacher Andrew Wales was nice enough to send me a big stack of issues of his series, Eclectic Comics. I thoroughly enjoyed the books and am a bit ashamed that it’s taken me so long to drum up a “thank you” sketch to send his way. Here (with some very quick digital …
Aug 31 2010
Well, here’s the finished colored version of pg. 20 of Oyster War that I’ve been posting intermittently at various stages of completion. If I had to do it over again, I’d probably have picked a different page from this chapter to highlight since this page wound up using mostly literal color, not the more expressive/narrative …
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