Mar 19 2010
Here’s a pleasant surprise from last week: Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean was reviewed in the Sunday (3/14) New York Times books section–certainly the highest profile review any project I’ve worked on has received. It’s very well written, even captivating at times, and Ben Towle’s black, white and blue art suggests the feeling of …
Mar 18 2010
As they have for the last few years, the folks a Wide Awake Press are putting out a free dowloadable comic for Free Comic Book Day this year. For last year’s issue, Ancient, I was–alas–only able to do a spot illustration. This year, though, I was offered the cover, and of course snapped it up. …
Mar 08 2010
When my last book, Midnight Sun, came out I made a point of posting links to all of the reviews it received. I noticed eventually, though, that most of the more substantive reviews wound up getting links from ComicsReporter and/or Journalista, so I vowed that with whatever book I did next, I’d stop posting review …
Feb 19 2010
…And yet a few more Count of Monte Cristo sketches, this time of Haydee. She’s a character who often gets cut, or at least diminished, in film/TV versions but I’d definitley find a way to keep her front and center if possible. I’m not really happy with either of these designs, but you gotta start …
Feb 18 2010
Yet more noodling on The Count of Monte Cristo–this time, The Count himself. The main thing I’m going for here is to (unlike any film or TV version I’ve seen) really play up the Orientalist nature of the book, and The Count in particular. I don’t know that these two images do that entirely, but …
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