Grandpapier recommendations – July 2024
If you don’t know about GrandPapier, it’s an online anthology of comics and graphic novels started by L’Employé Du Moi in Belgium. Most of the works are in French, but some are in English, and ...
Before Comics: The Egyptian Book of the Dead
A look at the Egyptian Book of the Dead as a piece of sequential art.
“Hands” on Shenandoah
My comics short story “Hands” has been published by the literary journal Shenandoah.
Before Comics: The Standard of Ur
Originating around 2,500 BCE, the Standard of Ur is one of the earliest examples of sequential art that we have. While there is earlier art that is definitely narrative, it is not clearly sequential. The ...
Goodbye Twitter and Instagram
I’ve just gotten rid of my Twitter and Instagram accounts. I’ve got many reasons. Mental health. Politics. Increasing advertising. AI account mining. Politically abhorrent corporate overlords. I realize that there is only so much you ...
Before Comics: We’ve Been Telling Stories with Pictures for a Long Time
Narrative art stretches back 44,000 years. We humans like to tell stories with images. And we like animals.
In tribute to Paul Auster: “Detection”
The writer Paul Auster died on April 30, 2024. I have a handful of writers in my life whom I have become obsessed with and have read nearly all their output: Hermann Hesse, Angela Carter, ...
May 2024 update
I haven’t posted here for awhile. Mostly, I’ve just been busy with my paying jobs. But, as I’ve said earlier, I’ve been having trouble completing comics projects. Case in point: I have given up on ...
20 Years Ago: Litmus Test 13
In October of 1996, I put out the first issue of my title Litmus Test. It was my early place to explore comics and try out ideas. Eventually, I wanted to create longer works and ...
Slough & Stair pages 12-15
New pages will probably take awhile after this. I need to plan out the next chapter and write some (!) dialogue. But here are the last few pages of (what is now) the prologue: