Category: General

Empire Strikes Back Turns 30

Like I didn’t feel old enough already, now The Empire Strikes Back is 30 years old today.  I was (and still am) a huge Star Wars fan and while I love the original film, Empire came out when I was nine and had a far more profound impact on me simply because at that age …

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New Cristophe Blain Book Out (in France)

I vowed off linkblogging a while back since there’re plenty of great full time comics news blogs around these days, but this seemed like a news item that might fall under the radar, so… It looks like there’s a new Christophe Blain book out–alas just in French for now.  Blaine is one of my absolute …

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Sketchbook 5/8 – Johnny Ramone

I guess that last drawing I did of Prince just got me in the musician-drawing mode… so here’s Johnny Ramone.  This is from a picture in the Henry Rollins book, Get in the Van, but I switched his denim jacket in the picture to the traditional “Brando” leather jacket usually seen on Ramones of any …

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Sketchbook 5/6: Prince Caricature

…And here’s an inked and colored version of my sketchbook image from yesterday.  It’s lost a little in the eyes area, I think–but still an OK drawing, especially for me since likenesses aren’t my strong suit.

Sketchbook 5/4

Actually, I kind of like how that turned out… maybe I’ll ink it.