The False Dichotomies of Comics
Common dichotomies that are, at best, limiting to an artist and, at worst, flat out wrong.
Nick
Nick is a comics artist and teacher living in California, United States.
Lounger Issue 1 on ComiXology
Lounger Part 1 is live on ComiXology. This issue contains the first 49 pages of the story. Edited and in color. There will be three issues in total. Part two will contain pages 50-93 and ...
The Prehistory of the Graphic Novel – Revised
Based on some suggestions via Twitter and email, here is an updated list of books that could be classified as graphic novels, but that were published before the term was coined. Special thanks to Steve ...
Subscribe to my newsletter
I’m going to start a newsletter to give people occasional updates about what I’m working on and what’s available. As encouragement to sign up for it, I’ve put together a 30-page pdf preview of the ...
The Prehistory of the Graphic Novel
Whatever the term “graphic novel” actually means, it is one that rose to mainstream use in the 1980s. But most people seem to agree that the term was first applied in 1978 to Will Eisner’s ...
Ishii, Arriola, and stereotypes
The MoMA just posted a comics biography of Ruth Asawa done by Jillian Tamaki. On the second page, Tamaki mentions Chris Ishii and a comic strip created about life at the Japanese-American concentration camps. I ...
Jesse Hamm, 1975-2021
I was shocked to hear on the morning of the 12th that the cartoonist Jesse Hamm had died suddenly. Jesse, as he was for many of us, was my ambassador into the community of comics. ...
Ink Test
When I write about inks, I tend to focus on their blackness, consistency, and flow. Of course, there is a more fundamental concern: will the ink work on the paper that you want to use? ...
Tree and Roots
When it comes to memoir, I can’t seem to get my head round a full narrative. Yet I keep having ideas that I want to try out. So, at least for now, I guess whatever ...