Funding for educational programs halted
In one of my jobs, I work for TRIO Upward Bound and Math/Science Upward Bound. TRIO is a federal program that started in 1965 to help first generation and low income students get into and ...
Instagram again
With 2025, I decided to restart my account at Instagram. All my old posts are gone, but, as before, I am mostly posting process pics of the projects that I’m working on. If you are ...
2024 – Year in Review
While this year has continued the trend of abandoned projects– Cleft and Slough and Stair– I also feel good about The Third Floor and Mutant Fist. So maybe 2025 will see some completed work to ...
Mutant Fist – first three pages
I’ve finally started working on the story below, Mutant Fist. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, and in many ways, elements of it come from my preteen years. It’s the kind of ...
Nell Brinkley and the placement of the vanishing point
I was looking through an online edition (through my library) of The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age curated by the incredible Trina Robbins. It’s a wonderful collection. I was really struck by ...
updating links to “In Water”
I was going through the site a bit last night and realized that some of the links on the about page didn’t work anymore since the sites that they linked to were gone. Literary and ...
Before Comics: Egyptian Wrestlers
The ancient Egyptian cemetery Beni Hassan contains thirty-nine tombs built primarily between the 21st to 17th centuries BCE. The fifteenth tomb, built for Baqet III, an official during the 21st century BCE, contains many paintings. ...
Third Floor page 8 process
Here’s a bit about my current process, for those of you who are interested in such things. I first drew thumbnails of the first seventeen pages of The Third Floor back in June and July. ...
Before Comics: the Great Stupa at Amaravati
The Great Stupa at Amaravati is a Buddhist temple in India built between the third century BCE and 250 CE. The construction time period is so long because the stupa was added onto and revised ...
ShortBox Comics Fair 2024 is now live
ShortBox has a lineup of 116 comics for digital download for the 2024 Comics Fair. Check it out.