Mar 23 2011
Earlier this week, Tom Hart did a great blog post over at the Sequential Artists Workshop site called “Oblique Strategies for Comics.” Tom’s got a great list there of unusual constraints (or parameters maybe?) that one can use to “kickstart” a comic. It’s posted without much further explanation, but the items on that list are …
Mar 22 2011
Tonight’s subject is philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. I was a philosophy major in college and did my thesis on Wittgenstein. I’d love to tell you that I therefore have a really solid understanding of his two most notable contributions to philosophy–logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy–but his ideas are pretty slippery and even after studying him …
Mar 17 2011
My father’s in town for a visit and, as is his wont, he brought with him a giant cardboard box of stuff to pawn off on me. As usual, this box contained an assortment of “closet-clearing” items (old coats, clothes), new items that he bought but doesn’t want (the two-volume Lynd Ward set!), and some …
Mar 15 2011
This week’s Twitter #PortraitNight subject is a suggestion from Tim O’Shea of Comic Book Resources. After two disastrous attempts at his other suggestion, Peter Gabriel, I wound up switching gears and attempting a likeness of author John Irving. This was a quick drawing that took maybe twenty minutes in my sketchbook and I think turned …
Mar 14 2011
I’ve been making strides recently to be a better self-promoter. I’m still not on Facebook, but hey, I’ve been on Twitter for a while… and now I’ve got bookmarks! OK, bookmarks are as old-timey a promotional item as possible and not “social” in any way, shape, or form… but I’ve had good luck in the …
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