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This is a bit of a spoiler for my story Lounger, so fair warning. A few weeks ago, I was reading Edward Tufte’s excellent book Envisioning Explanations (shout out to libraries!), and in the first ...
Lounger: Part 2 on ComiXology
Part 2 of Lounger just went live today on ComiXology. It’s only $1.99. Part 3 should be out next month. And once that’s done, I’ll prep the full print version.
The Origin of Falcon Ace
Falcon Ace is a character I came up with when I was about 10 years old. He was someone I pretended to be, and later wrote stories and made little comics about. This is my ...
Solo Panel: The Innocents by Gipi
In “Solo Panel,” I am going to take a significant panel from a comic to examine and explore. The idea of “Solo Panel” was partly inspired by Brian Dillon’s column “Sentences” in Cabinet. In the ...
The False Dichotomies of Comics
Common dichotomies that are, at best, limiting to an artist and, at worst, flat out wrong.
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 ...