my pencilling process
I realized that I have never posted about my full pencilling* process. What follows are the steps that I have learned to help me create a finished page. These are not the “correct” way to ...
Help Fieldmouse Press
Many publishers get their books printed in China, which means these new tariffs are hitting them hard. And small press publishers are the most vulnerable. Fieldmouse Press has a shipment of printed books on the ...
The Argument for the Future: AI in the CSU System
The California State University system (CSU) will be giving a version of ChatGPT to all students and faculty. I teach writing and critical thinking at a CSU. I have yet to hear a concrete example ...
Mutant Fist – pages 4-6
See the first three pages here.
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 ...