A Serious Consideration of a Comic Definition
Comics has always had a problem with language. Just take the grammar of the name. Is it singular or plural? I would think that if we use comics as a collective noun then it would ...
Nick
Nick is a comics artist and teacher living in California, United States.
original Carnivale beginning
I started thumbnailing Carnivale: a Kit Kaleidoscope Story in March of 2004. I got to work on the first finished page in August of 2005. Yet that original beginning didn’t feel right. I was trying ...
Colored pencils for pencilling
Something that I’ve been doing for awhile now is pencilling my comics with colored pencils (I was inspired after seeing some sketches by Marian Churchland on Instagram). What I like about doing this is that ...
Speedball Super Black vs. Holbein Super Opaque Black
I’m always on a quest for the perfect ink. A long time ago, Jimmie Robinson told a group of us who were at a meeting of Bay Area comics creators that he used Speedball Super ...
“Lounger” pages 68-69
https://tapas.io/episode/1746245
The Mullins Library – Grey by Yoshihisa Tagami
On a Covid-19 shelter-in-place whim, I decided to create a video for The Mullins Libary instead of just post images on Instagram.
Europe Comics
So I’ve been reading comics on-line more and more frequently, especially these days. A lot of these I get through ComiXology or Sequential. But then my library also has a service, Hoopla, that has a ...