This past Monday was the twenty-sixth–and final–week of our collaborative Twitter project, the Animal Alphabet. The project began as an offhand comment by me on Twitter that I was thinking about drawing an animal in my sketchbook for each letter of the alphabet. Fellow cartoonist and friend Rob Ullman, though, had the good sense to …
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Aug 29 2011
Please Support the Chain World Kickstarter Project
Well, it looks like I’m dipping my tippy-toes into the world of Kickstarter. I’m one of the “five industry artists” in A. Dave Lewis’s fascinating and ambitious “Chain World” project. The project is unlike pretty much anything I’ve seen attempted comics-wise, so rather than try to explain it here, please just go check out the …
Aug 06 2011
Build a Beach Head – James Sturm & Art Baxter’s 1998 Response to Understanding Comics
(Edit 8/8: There’s also a bit of discussion about this strip going on in my Google+ stream. If I have you in one of my circles, you can join in there.) I’m currently teaching an Introduction to Sequential Art class for The Savannah College of Art and Design and the primary text for the class …
Jul 20 2011
The Favorites Zine: Great Comics Writing for a Great Cause
You may have heard me mention this zine before. It debuted at this year’s HeroesCon and until now that was the only place you could get it. Now, though, you can order it online and have it delivered directly to your grubby little mitts. I got a chance to read mine once I got back …
Jul 08 2011
Fantasy Comics Adaptations of Classic Literature
And when I say “fantasy” I don’t mean “chicks in chain-mail being rescued from dragons”– I mean fantasy as in “fantasy football.” Here’s the background for this post: a while back, cartoonist Scott Chantler (of the excellent recent graphic novel, Two Generals, among other things) put out a call on Twitter asking other cartoonists what …





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