late February gouache
I’ve been playing around with gouache the past few weeks. At the end, I took the leftover gouache and spread it across a page and inked over what resulted. I ended up liking that better ...
Lounger up to 111 pages
Lounger is moving along. 111 pages are done as of this writing and 112 is currently underway. Here’s the link. Also, I’m gradually working on adding color to Lounger. You can see a sample of ...
Kandinsky on comics
I just read through Wassily’s Kandinsky’s book on art theory, Point and Line to Plane (I got this from the Guggenheim online). As the title indicates, in the text Kandinsky meditates on the elements of ...
meditation: Chauncey’s Kong
Our third guide dog, Chauncey, went back for his formal training to be a guide. Due to Covid, we had him much longer than we’ve had our other two dogs. So while the separation is ...
Contract
This little comic appears in The Lost Cause of Poetry. But after the book was printed, I noticed that a bit of the bottom of the image got clipped. I had accidentally left a white ...
The Mullins Library – Comix 2000
I made another video for The Mullins Library. This time, I take a lingering look at L’Association’s incredibly ambitious Comix 2000. It’s a 2000-page anthology created at the start of the new millennium. It features ...
Lounger up to 105 pages
Lounger is getting near the end. There are only really two scenes left. I started the story before Covid and maybe it’ll end before Covid ends. If my choosing to do a story about a ...
inking issues: at the border
When using a nib, it is very common to release pressure as you near a border, whether that be a panel border (as shown below) or the contour of a shape. You do this because ...
favorite notebook drawings of 2020
Here is a scattering of some of my favorite drawings that I scribbled into my notebooks over the last year. Ordered by date (because that’s how I do).
Monsoon 2
I heard about the Monsoon anthology online and got immediately excited. Slowork Publishing started the series in 2017 and it consists of four issues of documentary comics from Asia, published in both Chinese and English. ...