When I was given the opportunity to teach a set of week-long comics workshops at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA, I had no idea it would be such an important week in my life. This summer has been packed with teaching comics workshops for children and teenagers in my home state…
17 years ago, Doug TenNapel releasedย The Neverhood, the point-and-click adventure game featuring claymation puzzles, characters and graphics. The game is a cult classic and was a complete game-changer for me in my visual artwork and storytelling. While we inhabitants of The Neverhood are still hoping for a tablet version of the game, Doug TenNapel has…
One of my biggest influences in drawing, comics and storytelling is a creative force known as Doug TenNapel. Doug has created video games, animated tv shows, and graphic novels, not to mention one of the world’s most beloved characters: Earthworm Jim. I’ve been following Doug’s work for 16 years now, and own all of his…
It’s big. Easily one of my favorite ideas, and one that I’ve been developing for months and months. This comic will end up totaling 500-600 pages when completed, and the drawings and story will be rich with details. Where Upside Down is spooky and fun, this story is adventurous and thought-provoking. I think that it…
Doug TenNapel’sย Ratfist was a web comic sensation last year, and he’s at it again with a new story calledย Nnewts. Updating just once a week,ย a full page of Nnewtsย comes out each Wednesday. Hey–that’s today! Anyone that knows my taste in comics knows that I’ve been loving Doug’s work for a long time now. If you aren’t…