It’s one thing to draw in pen-and-ink, but quite another to reproduce it. Back when I was photocopying everything, I had little control over what I got. I would go to the copy place, try a sample on each available machine, and then use the best one. But that was a long time ago. Since then, it’s all been about …
“Museum Piece” is an old idea that I started on in 2007. That version was done in sepia ink and watercolor. It looked kind of nice, but I really didn’t have enough experience with ink and watercolor and there were a lot of mistakes and accidents that made the process really slow. So I scrapped the story. In my recent …
A twelve-page story if mine called “In Water” is in issue 111 of Red Fez. https://www.redfez.net/graphic/memory-in-water-224
Starting today, Carnivale: a Kit Kaleidoscope Story will be serialized weekly on Tabulit. If you don’t know, Tabulit is an online comics reading subscription service. It works a bit like Netflix; you pay a monthly rate and can view all the stuff you want. The artists get a cut of the monthly subscriptions. I serialized Carnivale here a few years …
I’m not good at marketing. I’d rather just make my comics. But I do try. I’ve gone to conventions, taken ads out in The Comics Journal, and submitted work to various publishers and anthologies. None of it has done me much good, which, over the years, has just encouraged me to spend even less time on it. Still, I want …
In my notebook, I’ve been playing around with colored pencil and ink. I tried sepia ink, but I like good old-fashioned black the best. The trick is to be sparing so it doesn’t overpower the image. As always, my intent is to figure out how to use this for comics. I’ve had trouble scanning colored pencil in the past, but …
“Prayer” started out as a little poem that I worked up into a little comic. The deity is in gouache and the other colors are the linework recolored in Photoshop. I like using these little stories to play around. I also put a link up to “Prayer” on the Comics page. https://tapas.io/episode/993148
https://tapas.io/episode/978482 This is a short comic inspired by a few lines in a poem I read in Poetry. Everything is packed away right now, so I don’t have my notes on what poem or what issue.
“Mystery” was published in Fourteen Hills Vol. 22 No. 1, January 2016. https://tapas.io/episode/963188
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