May 22 2026
By happenstance, I recently completed two sketchbooks that I’d been working in simultaneously: my larger daily sketchbook and a smaller, more portable notebook-sized Moleskine. I’ve occasionally posted bits of my sketchbooks here in the past, and I’m doing so again now–although, I’ve done full video flip-throughs this time. Also, I thought this would be a …
Nov 30 2022
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) does a great job of filming and making public a ton of its programming post-show and among the current lot of videos posted from the just-concluded 2022 show is my Talk and Teach program, “Principles of Page and Panel Layout.” The video has gotten a surprising amount of views/traction, so I …
Nov 11 2020
As you may have heard, there’s going to be a stop-motion animated Hulu series starring Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. Reading this news, I was struck by how it’s just de rigueur accepted that M.O.D.O.K.–once a “serious” Marvel villain (first full appearance: Tales of Suspense #94 – ed.)–is now a jokey semi-ironic gag character, a character that might, …
Apr 29 2020
Lately, I’ve been noting a lot of panels like this in the comics I read and it’s made me wonder about what exactly this technique is, how how it works, and where it came from: What it is: This is from Cyril Pedrosa’s recent (and amazing) book L’age d’or, which is now out in English …
Aug 13 2019
At this point it’s not news that Marc Singer’s recent book, Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies, has stirred up a fair amount of controversy. It’s a testament to the provocative nature of the book’s assertions that this controversy has spilled out beyond the usually insular world of the book’s chosen subject …
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