Tag: writing


  • Such an incredible interview with Native American poet and writer Sherman Alexie. I caught part of this program on NPR last Saturday and I was so glad to find the full hour-long program online. Amongst such topics as what life is like for him as a writer and the use of language in poetry, I…

  • More drawings for the sci-fi author trading cards…

  • The last few weeks have brought in a lot of projects and one of my favorites has been making trading cards for science fiction authors. What a fun idea, right! Pictured above is my ink drawing of Ray Bradbury, easily one of my favorite writers since dad lent me his copy of Green Shadows, White…

  • Watch out—today I am unleashing… THE CHAIN GANGย is a hilarious 1,000-page ultra comic about a group of unwanted and forgotten bicycles led by Poppa Wheelie that band together to wreak havoc on the world, one neighborhood at a time! Instead of waiting years for me to draw all 1,000 pages, I’m going to be releasing…

  • [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBOaz7kJPqk&feature=player_embedded] Graphic novelist Nate Powell delivered this presentation on storytelling in comics to students and guests at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

  • For anyone that’s been following my novel-in-the-works, I have exciting news: I’VE FINISHED MY ROUGH DRAFT! Hooray! Three months of writing, 232 pages typed, and 127,000 words written. Phew! Since finishing, I’ve been drawing like crazy, and planning out my next projects, trying to get my mind off of my novel, so that I can…

  • For the last few months I’ve been writing the rough draft of a novel I’m calling All Got to Climb Some Mountain, about a preacher in the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. I’ve never written a novel before, and the longest thing I’ve written before this is a story I started…

  • Ben Housley, author of Into the Dark: Escape of the Nomad,ย is putting together an anthology of moon settlement stories and needs your submission. Submissions are due August 21 and can be sent toย wasatchwildman@hotmail.com. Winners will receive 5 cents per words compensation, as well as their story published in The Great Moon Rush, in both e-book…

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    My boy and I like to pick out movies from the library to watch (they’re free and we get ’em for two weeks!) and this week’s picks included Contact, starring Jodie Foster, from 1997. What an incredible film. I picked it up because I remembered liking it, but I’d forgotten just how great it really…