Nick
Nick is a comics artist and teacher living in California, United States.
Panel: left to right
The idea that comics have greater clarity when composed with the reading direction in mind tends to be widely understood. Almost all books on comics creation mention this. For instance, addressing English readers, Robyn Chapman ...
Tachikawa Jet Black ink
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m always on the quest for the perfect black ink. So I bought a few inks from JetPens along with some other things I needed. And– BAM– I found an incredible ...
Someone to Watch Over Me
I’ve had this idea for an autobiographical piece for awhile and I’ve been trying to develop it. Yet as soon as I think I have a handle on it, things spiral in other directions. And ...
“Lounger” is up to 80 pages
You can see it here. Or start from page one here. Lounger :: pages 78-80 | Tapas Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse webcomics and novels from every genre. Discover stories you’ll ...
Panel: tangents
As I mentioned, I’ve been looking through the old Famous Artists Cartoon Course. Lesson 11 is all about panels and has a lot of solid advice. One thing that is mentioned in that lesson is ...
20th Anniversary of Kit Kaleidoscope Goes to the Masked Ball
I was looking through some old files and realized that the mini of Kit Kaleidoscope Goes to the Masked Ball came out in 2000, twenty years ago. So I thought I’d do a few things ...
ComiXology sale through September 8
That means all my books are half off. So consider picking something up. My publisher site on ComiXology.
Inking Advice
Recently, I’ve been going through the old Famous Artists Course handbooks. If you don’t know, this was an art course first devised in 1948 and it involved teachings by artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, ...
new Carnivale pages 175-179
Yes, you read that right. Back in April, I had an idea for how the sequence starting on page 175 of Carnivale should be revised. I had always felt that the original sequence was too ...