Deleter 4 Ink
I’ve heard about the Deleter inks for a long time, but had never tried any of them. This is partly because I got into pen-and-ink before the boom in interest in manga in the U.S. ...
Someone to Watch Over Me
This is something that I started last July, but had trouble continuing. I like how the colors turned out. Maybe I’ll continue it some day, or at least add it to the other memoir comics ...
Lounger up to 125 pages and color progress
By this the end of this weekend, Lounger will hit the 125 page mark. We’re getting close to the end. The first draft is on Tapas. So, I’m also revising a few things and also ...
The Mullins Library – Eiland
In this edition of The Mullins Library, I look into issues 3 and 4 of Eiland, by Stefan van Dinther and Tobias Schalken. The books were published by Bries in 2001 and 2002. Here are ...
Comic Book Stores
Following along with my comics reading history… I’m finding it healing to control the narrative like this. For example, here I was able to turn figures from my childhood who frightened me into jokes. As ...
Foil
For about a year, I’ve been going back and forth about doing memoir comics. “The Betrayal of the Mouse” came out of that, but I was still uncommitted. This weekend, I watched “Hands On: Drawing ...
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 ...