When bad things happen to good art

Oh the horrors. I’ve worked so hard on my 4th episode of my St-St-Stuttering is C-C-Cool comic only to have it fall to pieces once I started inking it. It started with the markers I wanted the colour of the lettering to be the same as the panel borders. I had...

Google Chrome comic book

Google Chrome was “accidentally” (yeah right) launched this morning and along with it was a comic book by Scott McCloud explaining its features and such. My twitter list was all a buzz with hating the comic book. Quite a few also lamented it was 36 pages....

Drawing a stutter

I’m in the early development stages of a graphic novel to accompany my Stuttering is Cool podcast. On the left is a a sketch of one of the main characters who stutters. This turned out to be an interesting exercise in character design because I have to be able...

Notes from Jeff Smith interview

I’m a huge fan of Jeff Smith and his comic/graphic novel, Bone . I had the pleasure and honour of meeting him a few years ago at the Silver Snail here in Toronto and his autographed issue 3 of Bone is one of my treasured items (see left). Jeff was friendly and...