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 ...

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 ...

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 ...