Nov 20 2012
Yeah, that’s right: GoComics.com, the home of Peanuts, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, Fox Trot, Cul de Sac, and many, many more amazing comics is now syndicating Oyster War online, starting from the beginning. If you have a GoC0mics account, please pop in and say Hi! And, don’t worry… If you’ve been following Oyster War at …
Nov 19 2012
A week or so ago I made my second appearance on the call-in segment of NPR’s music show/podcast Sound Opinions. You can find the show here. I’m at the very, very end of the show–around 59:30 minutes–talking about the influence of Winston-Salem’s own “5” Royales on James Brown’s band The Famous Flames, who were discussed …
Nov 07 2012
I’ve never been a very confident drawer or designer of female comics characters and I’ve always struggled with them. One of the main characters in Oyster War, Lourdes, is a design that I’ve gotten less and less happy with as the story goes on and I’ve pretty much decided to re-design her head/face and redraw …
Oct 11 2012
If you’re in the High Country of N.C., mark your calendars! I’ll be a guest at the Boone KidsCon at the Watauga Public Library on Saturday, October 20th. You can read the details in the newspaper feature below, but briefly: I’ll be appearing there with Rachel “Rei” Haycraft. In the morning there’ll be a closed …
Oct 02 2012
Last week I got involved in Twitter back-and-forth with a few folks (Alan Haverholm, Eric Orchard, and whomever operates the Hooded Utilitarian’s Twitter account–Noah Berlatsky, maybe?) about the differences–or lack thereof, argues Noah–between cartooning and illustration and it got me thinking about children’s books. I don’t have some big, overall point here vis-a-vis the formal …
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