Category: General

Mad Magazine’s Potrzebie on Google

If you use Google, (and who the heck doesn’t?) you may know that it features a calculator that can convert between various units of measure. If, for example, you search for “pints to quarts,” Google will return the correct conversion, in this case, “1 US pint = 0.5 US quarts.” But here’s something funny I …

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A Few More Midnight Sun Reviews

Midnight Sun has now been out for about five months and I keep thinking that I’ve seen the last review of the book pop up online, but here are a few extras that arrived in my Gmail box courtesy of Google alerts. First up is from Ray Ellis over at BlogCritics.org. At its heart, Midnight …

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How Different Cartoonists Draw Water

Both of the projects I’m currently working on involve drawing oceans, bays, harbors and just lots and lots of water in general. Oyster War, which takes place on the Chesapeake Bay, obviously has plenty of action taking place on the Bay, and Amelia features a good number of scenes of her plane, The Friendship, attempting …

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Interviewed at Chasing Ray

As part of this year’s multi-blog Summer Blog Blast Tour, there’s an extensive interview with me posted over at Colleen Mondoor’s literature blog chasingray.com. This is the most extensive interview I’ve done about Midnight Sun, and probably the only really in-depth interview I’ll do specifically about the book since the it’s been out for a …

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Sketchbook 5/15/08

This is another in-progress character for Oyster War.  My nib inking skills in general and my hatching in particular are pretty poor at the moment as you can see, but hopefully by the time I get around to actually drawing pages for this book I’ll be up to speed.