Did you know that Wake Forest University here in Winston-Salem has a documentary film-making department? I didn’t until I was contacted a while back by filmmaker and MFA candidate Peter Salomone who was interested in making a documentary about comics-making–featuring me. I’m sure you know how exciting and interesting the life of a cartoonist is: …
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Jun 06 2011
Heroes Con 2011 – Day 3
Sunday My Sunday at Heroes Con started out with an interesting–if sparsely attended–panel: “Historical Comics” with Becky Cloonan, Chris Schweizer, Don Rosa and me. It made me wonder if maybe having the first panel each day start an hour (or half hour) after opening might be a good idea, since that would allow time for …
Jun 05 2011
Heroes Con 2011 – Day 2
Saturday at Heroes Con was actually somewhat slower for me than the supposedly-slow Friday that precedes it. I think, though, that this is largely because I don’t have a new book for sale and have been selling primarily original art and commissioned sketches. Friday (not Saturday) seems to be the day that original art folk …
Jun 04 2011
Heroes Con 2011 – Day 1
After a relatively quick (but pretty bleary-eyed) early morning drive from Winston-Salem, I arrived at the Charlotte Convention center just in the lick of time to get set up for what has got to be America’s best-loved regional comics convention, Heroes Con. Friday is pretty much always a slow day at Heroes and today was …
May 30 2011
Heroes Commissions: Characters from Quentin Tarantino Movies
This is one of the more fun commissions I’ve gotten lately: Clarence and Alabama Worley from True Romance and Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs. Those are actually my two favorite Tarantino movies–and really the only two that I think hold up well over time. I loved Pulp Fiction when it came out but I re-watched …
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