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The Last Mechanical Monster. A Fire Story. Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? Mom's Cancer.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Comic-Con Post-Mortem

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This article in Variety may be the stupidest piece of journalism I've read in a long time. It concludes that Comic-Con@Home, the San...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

Comic-Con 2020: Virtually Like Being There

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It's Comic-Con Week! In some parallel non-plague universe, 100,000 people are gathering in San Diego to celebrate comics. Just not in th...
Friday, July 17, 2020

A Matter of Perspective

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"Beats Digging Ditches" Work in Progress: Some of my "Sixty-Second Sticky Doodles" that got the most feedback were on Pe...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 60: Lettering

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Lettering used to be a core part of every commercial artist's and cartoonist's training. Technology has made it obsolete--everywhere...
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Thursday, June 4, 2020

My Robot Army Grows

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This makes me very happy! Got an email from Cameron Jones, who just found and read "The Last Mechanical Monster" after seeing the ...
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Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 59: A Flour Sack

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Cartoonists give ink lines the illusion of life, sometimes even if the things they draw were never alive at all. Today's Sixty-Second St...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 58: Pikachu

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There are bigger, stronger, faster, fiercer and more powerful Pokemon than him, but when push comes to shove he's the one indispensable ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 57: Rain

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Like the good book says, "Rain falls on the just and the unjust" in today's Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle. I'm rooting for th...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 56: My Daughters

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My daughters don't always appreciate it when I post photos of them, but they never said I couldn't draw them. Ah ha! The Doodle Loop...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 55: Figure Drawing Inks

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Resolving the cliff-hanger we left on yesterday, today's Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle talks about the often-misunderstood art/craft of ink...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 54: Figure Drawing Pencils

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Today's Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle is part one of a two-parter, describing the two-part process of penciling and inking. It's also a...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 53: A Brick Wall

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It's been said* that some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story; others can read the i...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle 52: Chewbacca

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Today's Sixty-Second Sticky Doodle asks two important questions: who's the best copilot in the entire universe, and who owes some ki...
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Creator of The Last Mechanical Monster, A Fire Story, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, and Mom's Cancer. Won some awards, including an Eisner, Harvey, Inkpot, Emme and Emmy. I'm grateful.
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