TRASH!
Each Sunday at Skin Horse, cartoonist Shaenon Garrity has been serializing pages from a graphic novel called TRASH that she and I pitched awhile back. Shaenon wrote it and I provided the art (and the...
View ArticleMeskin Enters Hall of Fame!
I just read at the Comics Beat that the Eisner Award judges have inducted cartoonist Mort Meskin into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame. I had written a blog post/article last year arguing for his...
View ArticleToth’s Line: Part 2
I’ve posted the second part of my essays on the linework of Alex Toth: Part 2 There’ll be three or four more parts on the way. Thanks for reading!
View ArticleMore TRASH…
Hey Folks! Shaenon Garrity has posted the rest of our space opera collaboration, “Trash,” in her webcomics archive: Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Character Sketches In other news, I will be exhibiting at the...
View ArticleLate to the medium?
At my LiveJournal, someone wrote to ask the following question: “I am not a kid anymore, far from it, but after years of half-assed attempts I am trying to learn to draw comics and visual arts in...
View ArticleToth’s Condemnation
On my LiveJournal, Alec Stevens writes: “Surprised Alex Toth liked Corben, as his proportions were all over the map, and the subject matter certainly fit the ‘dark and warpy’ vision that Toth condemned...
View ArticleVive les comics.
Here’s a piece I unearthed from my LiveJournal archive that seemed worth “reprinting” here. It contrasts the fame of being attached to a major, licensed project with the narrower but more intense fame...
View ArticleNew Sketchbook!
Hey Lads and Ladies, I’ve gone and collected a bunch of sketches from my various blogs into a sketchbook. It isn’t fancy (it’s Xeroxed in black and white, and stapled by hand!), but I’m happy with how...
View ArticleShort book review.
Just posted a review of the new Frazetta book, FRANK FRAZETTA: ART AND REMEMBRANCES, over at Amazon.
View ArticleIt’s that time of year again…
At first, this gag posed a problem, in that I didn’t know how to wordlessly identify the woman as Barbara Gordon, rather than some random paraplegic. I lamely added a “bat-signia” pin to her shirt...
View ArticleRIP Nick Cardy, 1920-2013
I hope to have more to say about the wonderful Nick Cardy later. For now, here are several of my favorite Cardy sketches, most of them drawn when he was in his 80s:
View ArticleKate Bishop
Just stumbled across this one — a sketch I did for a Hawkeye fan during a signing at Floating World with Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber several months ago.
View ArticleJoey Manley
I’m sorry to learn tonight that Joey Manley passed away. Apparently he died of pneumonia. He was 48. It’s difficult to describe the role Joey played in the comics industry. He was at various times a...
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