Well it’s finally happened. We all knew it would some day. There came a time on Saturday at SPX where the crowd was so butt-rubbingly, San Diego Comic-Con-ishly close that it wasn’t fun to walk the isles. Anecdotally, I’ve not heard either way whether this late afternoon crowd surge translated into a late afternoon money …
Tag: Comics
Sep 09 2010
Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Vol. 1
I just finished reading the first volume of the Fantagraphics collected Captain Easy Sunday strips. I’ve been a big Roy Crane fan for a while, but I was mainly interested in the black and white Wash Tubbs dailies. For whatever reason, I’ve always been really fond of the duotone board technique he used for those …
Sep 03 2010
The Mystic Yak
A while back, cartoonist/teacher Andrew Wales was nice enough to send me a big stack of issues of his series, Eclectic Comics. I thoroughly enjoyed the books and am a bit ashamed that it’s taken me so long to drum up a “thank you” sketch to send his way. Here (with some very quick digital …
Aug 05 2010
Oyster War Page Progress: Inks
As mentioned a few posts back, I’ve picked a page from the current chapter of Oyster War to post progress on as it moves to completion. I’ve now got that particular page inked, so here it is: As with most everything I draw, this page looked a lot more impressive in my brain, but I …
Jul 31 2010
Local “Comic Book Reading Room”
Notice anything unusual about the image on the cover of our local monthly rag? I sure didn’t. I gave it a cursory flip-through and then left it on the coffee table. My two year old daughter, though, is apparently far more observant than I; she looked at it and then presented it back to me …





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