Jul 16 2012
Most folks don’t seem to know this, but the 1987 film, The Princess Bride, is based on a book of the same name by William Goldman from 1973. The book is built around a clever and hilarious conceit that for obvious reasons couldn’t be incorporated into the film: it’s supposedly a modern abridgment of a …
Jul 11 2012
That’s right: this week only you can get this great-looking Oyster War t-shirt at Comic Strip Tees. If you don’t know Comic Strip Tees, it’s a really great project that started on Kickstarter and since getting funded, has been offering one t-shirt a week, each one designed by a cartoonist. Here’s the Oyster War design, …
Jul 09 2012
I was on the fence for “H”, waffling between this guy and Humbert Humbert from Nabokov’s Lolita. Ultimately, I went with Hiro mainly because I got a better initial doodle of him on Saturday night, but also because there really is no description of Humbert in Lolita–or, rather, there is no reliable description of him. …
Jul 02 2012
Did you know that, starting this summer, you can read my webcomic, Oyster War, as well as five other great comics all at one place? Yep, right here: So, what’s there besides Oyster War? Check it: Muscles Diablo by Pat Lewis Ultra Lass by Rob Ullman Rashy Rabbit by Josh Latta Ninjasaur by Jason Horn …
Jul 02 2012
This may be the drawing that causes me to break my heretofore unbroken AlphaBooks rule of only doing one character from a particular book. I really want to do Tom Bombadil also… but we’ll see. G is for Gimli – From The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien There are a lot of things …
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