“I am right that Santa is dying. And I am right to say we need to figure out how to live without him.” — Joe Konrath from a both depressing and exciting (to me at least) post about the doomed future of the print market, and the fantastic future of digital distribution.
If you are at the Alternative Press Expo today, I’m at table 403 selling hot off the press new books of The Chairs’ Hiatus! Come by and say hi. I’d love to meet you!
This is so helpful. I’m working on some color pages right now and having the hardest time. This helps so much.
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Oh Aristotle, you nerd.
“It’s important to understand the line between remix and rip-off…” — Maria Popova (She continues: “it comes down to a rather simple litmus test: If a derivative work changes the original in a creatively meaningful way, or offers cultural commentary or critique on it, then it’s a new original work of its own creative merit; if it merely parrots or mimics the original while adding no context or commentary, then it’s a rip-off.”)
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The Piano Farm: Experiments of awesome. -
This was indeed a good show. I met some nice folks.
As I was set to do some travel, I tacked on two trips into Portland to visit the gang.The first just passed and while there I finally was able to participate with the reading series of Jamalieh Haley and Donald Dunbar, If Not For Kidnap, which happens the last Tuesday of every month in…
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This cover, by my buddy Anis is just awesome. Man.
The cover I just finished doing for Shanny Jean Maney’s upcoming book I Love Science!
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Recently, I discovered a great journal comic called Love, Life and Earthquakes It’s a beautiful, funny, and honest feeling series of pages about and by Aimee McFarlane and her experiences living and teaching in Sendai. She’s been updating regularly and I’ve been loving it.
The pages I’ve done so far are filled in and the pages I’ve got yet to go are at the bottom in white. Just…a little…bit…more…
A work in progress panel for an upcoming scene. I’m excited about this location. At least for this drawing I am. We’ll see how I feel after I’ve drawn those CD racks another 2 dozen times!
More pages of The Chairs’ Hiatus appeared recently. I’m not sure from where. I think the cat drew them.
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