There are many different kinds of nib holders out there, especially if you start to get into antique models. But which one you use mostly comes down to personal preference (the two on the right are the ones I use most often). Even so, there are a few things to keep in mind. (I am only considering straight pen holders here, …
Manga in Theory and Practice: the Craft of Creating Manga by Hirohiko Araki The creator of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has written a book which, he claims, reveals the secrets of creating manga. He calls these secrets “the golden way” and his book is a map pointing us along that way. Are you excited to peel back the curtain and see …
When I got into regularly drawing with dip pens, nibs were easy to find at the local art store and I could get them for thirty cents a piece. So it wasn’t too hard to try out different kinds. These days, not all art stores carry nibs and they tend to be around one to three dollars each. They’re still …
A lot of children’s books are pretty creepy when you think about them. Many of them involve child abandonment or characters who seem whimsical on the surface, but reveal themselves to be agents of chaos. Think of The Cat in the Hat. He’s funny, but also incredibly destructive and unsafe. The new graphic novel by Brecht Evens takes the unsettling …
The story is now posted in full on Tumblr.
I haven’t been posting much new comics work. There are two reasons for that. One, I’m working on smaller pieces that I’m submitting to different on-line and literary journals. Most places want previously unpublished work, so that means I can’t post them here or on my tumblr. But sometimes I have a work that doesn’t seem like a good fit anywhere, …
I put my first mini comics together in 1996 and decided to be an exhibitor at my first con in 1998. I took my little photocopied minis, full of enthusiasm and dreams of making money and gaining readers. I made $15. That con was the Alternative Press Expo in San Jose. Though my expectations met the cold, hard wall of …
I am serializing my story “Defrost” over at the webcomics site Tapas. Updates every Friday.
I’m posting a 15-page metaphor about art called “Art Is a Lonely Business” over on Tumblr. Fair warning: it contains nudity, pooping, and masturbation.
I had a blog on this site, running from 2006 until December 2016. It began to feel more like a burden than an opportunity. The files were taking up a lot of space and I was tired of deleting spam comments. But recently, I began to miss the blog. I missed writing. I missed the occasional comments. And so here …