This is pretty cool: New York-based Pub Crawl is hosting “See How Magazines are Made”, an all-day in-depth tour of visiting the offices of popular magazines and getting a look at how the magazines are made. This year’s tour includes visits to Men’s Health, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Inked, People en Español and Seventeen magazines. The event will…
David Blaine fascinates me. I remember when his “Street Magic” special aired on television and I recorded it on VHS tape, watching it over and over again, mesmerized. When his autobiography, Mysterious Stranger: A Book of Magic, came out five years later, I pored over it in the same fashion, taking in every bit of history…
I came across this video of Herge drawing TinTin, and thought it might be fun to put together a compilation of cartoonists drawing their characters on film. While I couldn’t find any videos of Bill Watterson drawing Calvin and Hobbes, or Gary Larson drawing The Far Side, I was able to find some other gems. Charles Schulz drawing…
BEING AUTHENTIC Artist Gregory Manchess has put together what he’s calling “10 Things to Remember About Training” – a list of items dealing with creativity in practice and in theory. You can read the full list here, but I wanted to point out number two on his list: “2. Learn to be authentic. No one…
John Hogan of the Graphic Novel Reporter got in touch with me to talk about my upcoming graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale (October 2012, Top Shelf Productions). Here’s a snippet of our conversation: “Congratulations on your first graphic novel! What’s the story behind it? Thank you! Upside Down has been a lot of fun to make, and…
My first graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale (October 2012, Top Shelf Productions), was recently nominated for an Arty Award from the Salt Lake City Weekly, and I just found out that my book won for the Best Graphic Novel/Zine! Hooray! Thank you to everyone that voted and got involved. Keep watching this blog and…
[vimeo 39051288 w=500 h=281] One Minute Wonder 10 from Present Plus on Vimeo. One Minute Wonders is “a series of video portraits featuring wondrous people telling their personal story in 60 seconds flat. Artists, entrepreneurs, designers, and rain-makers offer insight into their individuality, their motivations, and what really makes them tick. These are the people who…
I came across the following article on pursuing your passions. While I don’t agree with everything Leo Babauta has written (his original article can be found on ZenHabits), I think there are some important points. Here’s the first part of the article: A lot of you are like me — trying to do what you…