Category: General

Tanoshii 2008 Calendar

In addition to the usual holiday treats like seeing friends and family, good food and general good cheer, folks in Winston-Salem have another thing we look forward to each holiday season: the Tanoshii Chinese restaurant’s annual calendar. This year’s theme is  the Beijing Olympics and you can see that each animal not only corresponds to …

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The DarkWing Returns

I occasionally participate in the Newsarama Art Group over on the Newsarama forums. The general idea of the group is that each week an active member of the group gets to pick a subject for the group to draw the following week, with the chooser rotating through the list of active members each week. I’ve …

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Old Skool: Stately Thunderchild Manor

Way back, lo many years ago, before I was a starving artist, I pursued even less-green pastures and was a starving musician. I, along with two of the other three members of the band I was in, Come on Thunderchild, purchased a circa-1910s house in Cornelius, NC (known among us locals as “Corntown”), which we …

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SPX Finds – pt 1

Well, not really finds, I guess. Here’s the deal: If you’ve ever been an exhibitor at SPX, you know that people will often just walk up to you and give you stuff. Some of this turns out to be good, some of it terrible, and a lot of it somewhere in the middle. Anyway, since …

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Chris Ware and Perspective Drawing

The most recent Mad Magazine (the one with the insurance caveman on the cover) includes a Chris Ware parody among the gags in the “Fundalini Pages” at the beginning of the issue. Mad‘s comics/graphic novel parodies are usually presented in the form of a review, with text above and a (supposed) excerpted page from the …

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