Tag: Comics

A Few More Midnight Sun Reviews

Midnight Sun has now been out for about five months and I keep thinking that I’ve seen the last review of the book pop up online, but here are a few extras that arrived in my Gmail box courtesy of Google alerts. First up is from Ray Ellis over at BlogCritics.org. At its heart, Midnight …

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Shelf Porn

There’s a “shelf porn” thread over at the Comics Journal message board in which folks are posting pictures of their shelves o’ comics-related stuff and I figured I’d add a posting of the bookshelf in my studio. Here’s what I’ve got: I don’t really own any super-rare books or anything–mostly it’s just stuff you could …

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How Different Cartoonists Draw Water

Both of the projects I’m currently working on involve drawing oceans, bays, harbors and just lots and lots of water in general. Oyster War, which takes place on the Chesapeake Bay, obviously has plenty of action taking place on the Bay, and Amelia features a good number of scenes of her plane, The Friendship, attempting …

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Interviewed at Chasing Ray

As part of this year’s multi-blog Summer Blog Blast Tour, there’s an extensive interview with me posted over at Colleen Mondoor’s literature blog chasingray.com. This is the most extensive interview I’ve done about Midnight Sun, and probably the only really in-depth interview I’ll do specifically about the book since the it’s been out for a …

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Midnight Sun in Bookslut

Midnight Sun gets a nice mention in the latest Bookslut “Kid P.I.” feature.  I hadn’t really thought about the book appealing to the “young adult” crowd, but I reckon if you can handle a curse word or two (no “F bombs,” though) there’s certainly the historical angle.  Anyway, here’s a bit from the review: Cool …

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