Sep 18 2013
I haven’t run any reviews here for a long time, mainly because I feel like I don’t have enough time to really dig in and do anything substantive. Here, though, are just a few quick thoughts on some recent reads: Three Recent Comics Biographies Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, …
Sep 01 2013
I’ve been doing some drawing in ballpoint pen lately. Here are a few of them–fantasy beasts drawn with a black Bic ballpoint pen. The very last one (the cat with the wavy hair) is in pencil, but also a recent fantasy beast. I really dig the ballpoint cat/mount in the upper right. I’m slated to …
Aug 11 2013
Hand drawn, inked with Pentel brush pen and Micron. Colored in Manga Studio EX5. I tried to do a bit of “digital aging” on it via Photoshop, but I like the original better. I upgraded to Manga Studio EX5 this weekend and spent some time fooling around with its coloring tools–and I was …
Aug 02 2013
Here’re a couple of recent drawings, neither of which I’m 100% happy with… but both were good Manga Studio practice. Storm was hand-drawn in my sketchbook, then inked in Manga Studio, and finally colored in Photoshop. You may recognize her costume there as being from the recent Brian Wood/Oliver Coipel X-Men series. I’ve not followed …
Jul 29 2013
I was recently at a library in Durham doing a comics talk and noted that the “books for sale” shelf there had a bunch of comics collections from the 1950s. Most of the collections were of were New Yorker cartoonists whose work I already owned–Arno, Darrow, etc.–but one book caught my eye and I bought …
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