May 17 2012
There’s a nice write-up about Strikes, the mini-comic story I illustrated for Bret Parks (the owner of our local comics shop, Ssalefish) in today’s Winston-Salem Journal. You can find the article online here along with a short video featuring Bret and me talking about making the book. Here’s a scan of the newspaper article featuring …
Jan 27 2012
Roughly one year ago, I decided that the only way to get better at drawing faces was…. to draw faces–and to draw them regularly. So, beginning on January 25th of last year, I drew a portrait every week and posted each to Twitter (with the #PortraitNight hashtag) on Tuesday nights. My goal was to do …
Dec 30 2011
I was recently asked to donate a piece of artwork for a local Star Wars-themed charity benefit auction. I’m a huge Star Wars nut (the movie came out when I was six, so I’m pretty much the perfect age to be a Star Wars junkie) so I knew I had to find time to do …
Dec 13 2011
So, for this week’s #PortraitNight drawing, instead of just breaking out the sketchbook and drawing someone, I decided to subject myself to a taste of my own medicine and do a caricature exercise I occasionally make my students do when I teach comics classes. The exercise is one of Ted Stearn’s (of Fuzz and Pluck …
Jun 08 2011
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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