Saturday, February 28, 2009
10 Questions for Andrew Wales
I discovered a new resource for cartoonists I really like. Every day they ask a cartoonist 10 questions -- every day the same questions. It is interesting to read how very different every artist answers them. I asked if they wanted to hear the answers from a night-time wannabee cartoonist, and they did. My "interview" is posted today. Check it out here!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Everybody's Keeping an Eye Out

On February 3, I posted my submission to the sketch game called Art By Committee. Today, the rest of the entries are posted at the Gurney Journey. As an artist, it's really neat to be part of an artistic community, even if it's on cyberspace. It's interesting to see how fifteen different artists take the same line of text and interpret it differently. See everybody else's interpretation here.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
It's a Fluke!
Like many of my stories, it features The Mighty Andar, an aging bald superhero who some people say resembles me, but frankly I don't see it. An interesting twist to this opportunity was that the pages of the book are square. I've never done a story in that format, but I enjoyed the challenge and the learning experience.
I almost forgot to mention that for the first time I have a co-writer on this. After reading my comics, Jared Aiosa (owner of Heroes comic shop) had an idea for my characters. He wrote up a quick outline and I took it from there.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Ithacon
I learned that Joe Orsak is now working on a graphic novel detailing the story behind the song The Yellow Rose of Texas and met fantasy gaming card artist Storn Cook.
There were a bunch of other artists and writers there, including some "up-and-comers" like myself. Many comics dealers had tables as well. You can find anything from recent comics to hard to find treasures, to great old comics from dollar bins and even quarter bins. My son David got a ton of comics and cards for very cheap, including a card signed by Stan Lee for practically nothing! (I'm jealous!)
While I was there I had some of the pages I'm working on. I did some inking, and answered questions about the process of making a comic from thumbnails to inks. For any kid who wanted one, I drew the cartoon character or superhero of their choice. I also sold a few comics, which is always good!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The ABC Challenge is Back!
For those of you late to the party, this is how this works -- The ABC Challenge (Art by Committee) is a sketch game run by artist James Gurney. Once a month he posts a random line from a science fiction novel. The challenge to participants is to illustrate that line however we see it. We do not know the novel or the context of the line. I always choose to make a page or so of comics. I'm trying to piece them all together into a long form comic story. Eventually the whole story will be told in the pages of Eclectic Comics, the comic book I publish.
The line to illustrate this time was: “I should stay here and keep an eye out.” I cheated a little, but I'm like that.
This segment of the story introduces two new characters. The previous actions of our hero, The Mighty Andar have also caused two other imprisoned superheroes to regain their powers. The sketches below illustrate how I came up with them. I thought Major Uranus was a funny name for a character. He's the kind of guy that does the right thing but isn't always nice about it. Evidently this is the symbol for Uranus.

How are you writing today?
In the summer of 2005 I had the pleasure to be part of the Endless Mountains Writing Project. This is our local chapter of the National Writing Project. If you're a teacher, I'd highly recommend it.
Well, they asked me to design the t-shirt. The idea I had was a take-off from the familiar How-are-you-Feeling-Today poster. It makes a pretty nice poster, too, if I do say so myself.
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