October 2026 site changes
I’ve made little changes to the site here. I’m planning to change the Books page eventually. But first, I’m going to attend Short Run and address the situation after that.
comics
Tapas is over
Following in the tradition of ModernTales, Tabulit, and ComiXology, the webcomics platform Tapas is being shut down. I haven’t used the site as a creator since 2021 and stopped reading anything there, also. Apparently, 2021 ...
Nell Brinkley and the placement of the vanishing point
I was looking through an online edition (through my library) of The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age curated by the incredible Trina Robbins. It’s a wonderful collection. I was really struck by ...
2023 – Year in Review
This has been a slow and haphazard year creatively, extending from the feelings of last year. As I said before, I’ve lost some faith in my art, which has slowed my momentum and caused me ...
Slough & Stair page 3
Page 3 of the comic/graphic novel Slough & Stair by Nick Mullins
Poetry and Comics: Comics Becoming Poems
Continuing from the post from last week about poems becoming like comics, this week I want to look at comics becoming like poems. What makes a poem a poem? Definitions are notoriously difficult, mostly due ...
Poetry and Comics: Poems Becoming Comics
The connection between comics and poetry has been made several times by several very smart people. “{Comics] are also a kind of poetry, an incantation beckoning us to enter their world. The simplicity of their ...
Someone to Watch Over Me now available
As I was working on Lounger, I was also creating little reflective pieces about my childhood. I have now gathered these explorations all together into a 32-page comic. They don’t compose a linear memoir, but ...
Bering Strait by Tom Manning
Human beings prefer the progressive linear narrative. We like to tell ourselves stories where events start at a single origin point and progress towards their present, evolved endpoint. For many years in popular culture, people ...
53rd IVLA Conference Featured Artist
I have been chosen to be a featured artist at the 53rd International Visual Literacy Association conference. The theme this year is “Seeing Across Disciplines.” The conference kicks off tomorrow with the bulk of the ...