Inking: Black on Black
Working with pen and ink, you often run into the issue of what to do when you have a black element on top of another black element, such as when there is a black figure ...
nijomu site update
I’ve revised a few things around here for the new year. One, I added a new plugin to use with the store page. So now besides Paypal, I can accept credit card and Venmo payments. ...
2022 – Year in Review
2022 has been an eventful year personally, professionally, and artistically. For this blog, I’m going to stick to the art. In January, I had some nice reviews. One for my book This Wasn’t the Plan ...
First Two Pages of “Hands”
This story is based on a very vivid dream that I had a year ago. The emotions in it were strong and so different than the emotions of my waking life that I felt like ...
Life? Or Theatre? By Charlotte Salomon – Introduction and pages M004179 and M004211
The rise of the graphic novel is intimately, and of course tragically, tied to the Second World War. If we consider the book that broke through and captured a wider audience and showed the reading ...
Inking Tool: the Nail
It just struck me the other day that there is an essential tool that I use when drawing in pen-and-ink that I have never read any writer discuss. Now, I don’t ink with a nail ...
ending The Tower
I’m just not feeling The Tower anymore. But here’s the final page I completed, page 10: This is getting to be a pattern with me lately. I think that I need to work on a ...
The Tower – the first nine pages
The prologue of The Tower, one of my new projects, is up at GrandPapier.
Three Old Auto-bio Comics
I put up three old memoir comics. And by old, I mean 2002 – 2007. They cover different ground. “Cornflakes In the Bedsheets” compares my sex life with the theories of John Harvey Kellogg and ...
Brause nibs – a comparison
When I first got into pen-and-ink, I had only Hunt and Gillott nibs available to me. I enjoyed both brands and had fun experimenting with them, but over the years I developed a taste for ...