I normally confine my “shameless commerce” stuff to the Buy Stuff page on my site, but SLG is having a big 40% off sale at the moment, so I thought it’d be worth mentioning. You can find everything I’ve done that SLG has published all grouped on my creator page. You’ll get 40% off the …
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Nov 18 2009
Count of Monte Cristo – Lettered Thumbs
My next step, once I’ve got reasonably solid thumbnails (as seen last post) is to scan those thumbnails and pull out all the colored planning drawing, leaving just the final pencil lines. This can be done easily in Photoshop by going into image –> adjustments –> hue/saturation and then, in turn, selecting “reds,” “cyans” and …
Nov 17 2009
Count of Monte Cristo – Thumbnails
Just for fun, I thought I’d drum up maybe five pages or so of my imagined graphic novel adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. This obviously isn’t a “front burner” project for me at the moment, but I’ll post progress on these pages as I work on them with an eye toward discussing process. …
Nov 11 2009
If This Isn’t Paul Pope…
…then someone’s stealing his bit. I saw this ad in a local weekly and I immediately thought, “Paul Pope.” I think I was reacting to the loose brush-work and the way the lips are drawn in the image. On the other hand, that gooey amorphous figure above (a snowboarder on a lift, I think) doesn’t …
Nov 07 2009
‘My Dinner with Crumb’ II Posted
Rob Ullman’s posted the second installment (the first is here) of his “Traffic and Weather” comic strip documenting a recent bizarre happenstance in which we both wound up going out to dinner and drinks with a number of folks, including R. Crumb. We’d just finished hearing Crumb and Françoise Mouly speak about Genesis in Richmond …





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