Tag: Comics

Interview on NPR’s Voices and Viewpoints

Today the local NPR station, WFDD, will be rebroadcasting an old interview with me in which I discuss Midnight Sun (then still in “floppy” format), my other cartooning projects, and teaching comics.  If you’re local, it will be broadcast at 1pm and 6pm.  If you’re out there on the internets, you can catch it streaming …

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Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Ch 1, Homework

Here’s my week one homework assignment for the Drawing Words and Writing Pictures “nomad” group in which I’m participating.  The assignment was as follows: What you should be aiming for in this assignment is something along the lines of the “Drawing time” activity—a complex action that requires readers to follow along a certain path to …

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Kyle Webster And I Are On Triad Arts Up Close

Yesterday, along with Light Children illustrator Kyle Webster, I was interviewed briefly on the local NPR arts protram Triad Arts Up close.  Direct link to MP3 here.

Come See Me At The Decatur Book Festival 8/31

In discussions about how great it is that comics/graphic novels have “arrived” and are now respectable and respected, I’m often the wet blanket, but I guess I’ll have to admit that the fact that I’ve been invited to not one, but two, book festivals this year is a sign of something.  In September, I’ll be …

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Three Penciled Pages from ‘Ameila’

They say you don’t miss your water ’till your well runs dry, and in the case of my scanner I’d have to agree.  The last two weeks during which I’ve been scanner-less have really made me realize how much I use a scanner–not just for scanning final inked pages, but for the little things… like …

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