The literary/review blog ChasingRay.com has begun a series of author’s and cartoonist’s “favorites of 2008” lists and my list is currently posted. This isn’t technically a “best of” list, partially because the idea was to include your things you read in 2008, not your favorite things published in 2008–but also, as I note in the …
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Dec 18 2008
It’s On: Inking Amelia
I’ve heard back from the “powers that be” and although I’ve got a list of revisions a few pages long, it’s for the most part relatively minor stuff… so, I’ve received the AOK to begin inking. After months and months of penciling, it feels really good to break out the old brushes and nibs. This …
Dec 15 2008
Craft: How to Quickly Create Page/Panel Grids
I recently answered a message board post from someone wanting the convenience of those pre-ruled comic book pages that you sometimes see for sale in art supply stores, but wondering if there existed a similar product that was actually printed on decent paper. The notoriously fibrous nature of that paper has been a complaint among …
Dec 11 2008
Comic Strip: The “5” Royales
Here’s a one-pager I did for fall’s issue of Signal to Noise magazine. I posted some bits and pieces of this a while back when it was in-process, but now that the new issue on the stands here’s the entire strip. The stirp is an introduction to the ’50s soul/R&B band, The “5” Royales, who …
Dec 11 2008
Sketchbook 12/11/08
As per my “vow” from last post, I’ve switched here mid-page to pencil–and I’m not really sure I like the results. There’s something sort of stiff and labored about the pencil sketches, I think because the maleable nature of pencil–somewhat counterintuitively–tends to make me more fussy about putting down a line. I’m also pretty much …
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