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Amelia Signing/Event – Chapel Hill Comics 2/21

I’ll repost this once we’re closer to the event, but I’ll be appearing at the fantastic Chapel Hill Comics on Sunday February 21st to do a signing for Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean.  I’ll also be using some of the artwork from the book to do a basic “How Graphic Novels Get Made” talk.  …

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Sketchbook 1/16

One of the things I struggle with the most with my drawing is the level of of abstraction, of “cartoonyness” (for lack of a better word) for my characters.  The sorts of comics I enjoy reading most tend to be almost exclusively ones that one would describe as “cartoony,” but for whatever reason (most likely …

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Count of Monte Cristo 5-Page Sample – Complete

Well, here it is: the five finished pages of The Count of Monte Cristo I’ve been tinkering with on and off for a bit.  If this ever became a real Count of Monte Cristo graphic novel project, I’d likely hand-letter it (or at least get a font made of my hand lettering) but for purposes …

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Count of Monte Cristo: Finished Inks

These sample pages for The Count of Monte Cristo are still coming along, albeit somewhat slowly.  One thing I really like about small projects like this five-pager is that they give me the opportunity to try out new process tricks that I’d not really be willing to commit to for a bigger project without some …

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The Beat’s End Of Year Survey 2009/10

I participated in this year’s end-of-year survey over at Publishers Weekly’s The Beat.  My comments are in part three, which you can find here.