Sep 24 2008
I’ve occasionally been asked to display some of my artwork in gallery shows or similar situations and this always poses some problems for comics art. A page of original art can’t just be hung on the wall like a painting; it requires some sort of frame. The problem, though, is that getting art framed can …
Sep 19 2008
My next solo book (not this Ameila Earhart thing!) has a sea serpent in it and I’ve been doodling a lot of sea monsters as a result.
Sep 15 2008
The in-class exercise for week three is the “wrong planet” assignment here. We’re doing the assignment collaboratively, with each student tackling one section of the story. My section is #2, “lands on the moon…” This assignment has been around since well before this book came out, and has been posted over at teachingcomics.org for a …
Sep 14 2008
Homework for week three was basically just a 3-5 panel newspaper-style strip. I wound up making a list of a dozen or so possible “situations” to build a newspaper strip around, but ultimately got lazy and just went with something I know: musicians. I think the main thing I learned from doing this is just …
Sep 11 2008
I’ll be making the second of my two book festival appearances this year at this weekend’s Bookmarks book festival here in Winston-Salem. The festival is on Saturday and I’ll be at the “All That & then Some” tent (V-2) at 2:30 PM where I’ll be discussing Midnight Sun, comics-making, and comics and graphic novels …
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