Tag: Comics

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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FCBD – Piltdown Is Here!

Since it’s now officially Free Comic Book Day, you can cruise on over to www.wideawakepress.com and download Piltdown, the dinosaur/caveman-themed comic book for free as a PDF. If’n you’re one ah’ them youngsters, what with your “manga” and whatnot, and you like to read the funnybooks right on your computer, I’ve made a quick CBZ …

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Christophe Blain Book Tour of the U.S.?

Normally I pretty much skim over the “Comics Briefly” section of Publishers Weekly Comics Week newsletter; I read ComicsReporter and Journalista! pretty regularly during lunch each day, so usually there’s nothing there I haven’t seen before. When looking over this week’s issue, though, I spotted the heading, “Blain U.S. Tour” and wondered: that can’t be …

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