Fascinating article from the Smithsonian here.
INTERVIEW When About.com’s Aaron Albert found out about my Monster Look-N-Find Book on Kickstarter, he reached out to me to ask a few questions about the book and project. Check out the interview to learn more about the book, where it came from, how I’m making it, and why I decided to use Kickstarter. ONLY…
YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME! Last September, I entered DisneyPixar’s t-shirt contest on Threadless to design their new line of Toy Story shirts. Six months and hundreds of votes later, I’m proud to announce that my design was included in the handful of new Toy Story t-shirts! Thanks a ton to all of you…
MAKING PORTRAITS Some of my favorite pictures to make have been portraits–specifically portraits for couples and families. I love being able to create something meaningful for a specific person, or group of people. Knowing that my picture was created for and given to a single person for a special occasion makes the picture a very…
THIS WEEKEND I thought that I’d take a break from talking about my Monster Look-N-Find book on Kickstarter to get you excited for the weekend! For those of you who have been following this blog, you’re probably familiar with the band John-Ross Boyce and His Troubles. The Utah-based Gutter/Country band has been getting a lot…
RESOURCES My new “Resources” page has been getting a lot of hits, so I thought I’d talk a little bit about what’s available for creators. For now, the page contains 8 printable handouts that I created for last week’s LTUE event for writers and artists. Each handout covers a different topic, for a variety of…
Going to LTUE? Here’s my schedule for today: 2PM Working With Clients 3PM Art for Children’s and YA Books 6PM Writing for Comics and Web Comics 8-10PM Book Signing In case you missed yesterday’s event, here are some of the handouts I gave to panel attendees (click for full, printable size):
THE GTAR I’ve been working with the owner of Incident Tech for several months in developing a special print for their gTar, an ingenious “fully digital guitar that makes it easy for anybody to play music, regardless of experience.” All you have to do is dock your iPhone in the body, load up the gTar app,…
Here’s an interesting article I read on self-publishing–specifically on self-publishing comics. Although I don’t agree with everything Stef says, and I certainly don’t work in the same format, size, run, etc. she did, a lot of the information is extremely useful for beginners. It’s a great overview of what really goes into self-publishing a comic,…
2012 has been an exciting year! My first graphic novel, Upside Down: A Vampire Tale, was published by Top Shelf Productions, and took home an Arty Award for best graphic novel. I also had my hands in a number of really fun projects and I survived the Mayan apocalypse! Scroll down to check out a few highlights from…