Lounger graphic novel now available
Just in time for Halloween, the printed graphic novel of Lounger is here and ready to order. The book is 144 pages and full color. You can order in from me here: https://nijomu.com/books/lounger/ I made ...
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The False Dichotomies of Comics
Common dichotomies that are, at best, limiting to an artist and, at worst, flat out wrong.
The Mullins Library – Comix 2000
I made another video for The Mullins Library. This time, I take a lingering look at L’Association’s incredibly ambitious Comix 2000. It’s a 2000-page anthology created at the start of the new millennium. It features ...
Monsoon 2
I heard about the Monsoon anthology online and got immediately excited. Slowork Publishing started the series in 2017 and it consists of four issues of documentary comics from Asia, published in both Chinese and English. ...
Panel: top and bottom
Rudolf Arnheim states that in an artistic space, “dynamics [vary] with direction” (30). Or to put it another way, location in a comics panel implies meaning. In the Famous Artists Cartoon Course Lesson 11, the ...
Panel: left to right
The idea that comics have greater clarity when composed with the reading direction in mind tends to be widely understood. Almost all books on comics creation mention this. For instance, addressing English readers, Robyn Chapman ...
Panel: tangents
As I mentioned, I’ve been looking through the old Famous Artists Cartoon Course. Lesson 11 is all about panels and has a lot of solid advice. One thing that is mentioned in that lesson is ...
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 ...
Digital version of Lost Cause of Poetry now available
You can get a pdf from me through Gumroad. Or you can get a digital version through ComiXology.
digital version of This Wasn’t the Plan now available
Besides being available on ComiXology, the digital version of This Wasn’t the Plan is now available directly from me. It’s also on Google Play, where it’s on sale at the moment. Carnivale is now also ...