“Bullies” posted in Comics

My short comic about trying to avoid superheroes for three decades is up. It’s called “Bullies” and includes a panel about the crazy days of The Comics Journal message board. Here’s the link: http://nijomu.com/comics/bullies/

Bering Strait by Tom Manning

Human beings prefer the progressive linear narrative. We like to tell ourselves stories where events start at a single origin point and progress towards their present, evolved endpoint. For many years in popular culture, people ...

53rd IVLA Conference Featured Artist

I have been chosen to be a featured artist at the 53rd International Visual Literacy Association conference. The theme this year is “Seeing Across Disciplines.” The conference kicks off tomorrow with the bulk of the ...

Lounger graphic novel now available

Just in time for Halloween, the printed graphic novel of Lounger is here and ready to order. The book is 144 pages and full color. You can order in from me here: http://nijomu.com/books/lounger/ I made ...

Lounger covers

I’m finalizing things for the graphic novel collection of Lounger. The interior is all laid out; I’m just finalizing the cover. Since I serialized a digital version at ComiXology, I had three different covers to ...

new project: Callisto 7

Now that Lounger is mostly over, I’m working on new projects. One of them, which I have been planning in my notebooks for years now, is Callisto 7. It’s a sci-fi story about the first ...

Lounger: Part 3 on ComiXology

The third and final issue of the color version of Lounger is now up on ComiXology: https://bit.ly/3kQFX6u. Get it now while ComiXology still exists. The issue is DRM-free so you can download it as a ...

ComiXology Kaput

So the inevitable is happening and ComiXology is being completely subsumed by Amazon and will be replaced by the Kindle Store. When Amazon took over ComiXology in 2014, those of us who used the ComiXology ...