Tag: Comics

Have a Very E.C. Christmas!

Here’s an invite I just completed for the annual holiday get-together of our local Winston-Salem comics group, The Camel City Cartoonists’ Guild & Social Club.  I’ve already parodied this particular E.C. cover a few years ago for a Heroes Con panel on E.C./Mad Magazine, but hey, it’s a classic! …and this, of course, is the …

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40% off Sale at SLG

I normally confine my “shameless commerce” stuff to the Buy Stuff page on my site, but SLG is having a big 40% off sale at the moment, so I thought it’d be worth mentioning.  You can find everything I’ve done that SLG has published all grouped on my creator page.  You’ll get 40% off the …

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If This Isn’t Paul Pope…

…then someone’s stealing his bit. I saw this ad in a local weekly and I immediately thought, “Paul Pope.”  I think I was reacting to the loose brush-work and the way the lips are drawn in the image.  On the other hand, that gooey amorphous figure above (a snowboarder on a lift, I think) doesn’t …

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‘My Dinner with Crumb’ II Posted

Rob Ullman’s posted the second installment (the first is here) of his “Traffic and Weather” comic strip documenting a recent bizarre happenstance in which we both wound up going out to dinner and drinks with a number of folks, including R.  Crumb.  We’d just finished hearing Crumb and Françoise Mouly speak about Genesis in Richmond …

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R. Crumb in Richmond – Part II

The second, and final, part of my guest coverage of the recent R. Crumb/Françoise Mouly appearance in Richmond, VA is now posted over at ComicsWorthReading: Robert Crumb is a well-known aficionado of old-time American blues, jazz, and ragtime music, and this love of music has often found its way into his artwork. Among the many …

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