December 2007 archive
Dec 10 2007
Goodbye, Goodreads
Today I closed my Goodreads.com account. I know that many folks use and enjoy the site, bur for me it’s become more of a nuisance than a benefit of late, so I’m bidding Goodreads goodbye. Why? I just don’t have the time to write thoughtful, interesting reviews of books these days. I’ve barely got enough …
Dec 06 2007
Midnight Sun in PW Comics Week
A big thanks to Publishers Weekly Comics Week (and editor Heidi MacDonald, and the article’s author Chris Arrant) for this week’s article/interview about Midnight Sun. In 1928, the Italian airship Italia embarked on an expedition to the North Pole and never returned home. Crashed in the arctic climate, the surviving crew of the Italia were …
Dec 04 2007
Sketchbook (Date Unknown)
A while back, I got really into doing these “grid” things in my sketchbook where I’d start with a small image of something and then fill the page with progressive iterations of the image, each new one being drawn based on the one that directly preceded it. I was looking through an old sketchbook last …
Dec 04 2007
Schulz in Ripley’s
If, like me, you’re interested in things cartooning-related, then chances are you’re either reading, done reading, or plan on reading Schulz and Peanuts, the new bio of Peanuts artist Charles Schulz. In the book it mentions that Schulz’s first published work was a one-off “guest strip” in the Ripley’s Believe it or Not comics page …
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