I’ve been sketching in sketchbooks for years now and have them all sitting on a few shelves. No one will able to see any of my sketches unless they came over and flipped through the sketchbooks. Even if someone wanted to, it most likely wouldn’t happen often. Well, thanks home…
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The third release in my “tech joke” cover ebook series is 1950s short sci-fi story, The Stutterer by R.R. Merliss. My goal with the series is to create ebooks with illustrative covers of literature in the public domain. I design the covers using comparable references to today’s digital culture. My…
Leave a CommentThe second book I illustrated and released as an ebook in my “tech joke” series was Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. First published in 1879, it’s about a female telegraph operator who falls in love with a male telegrapher over the wire. Yup, chat room romances existed in the…
Leave a CommentOver the next few days, I’ll be blogging about the inspiration and decisions behind the 3 ebooks covers I illustrated, assembled into actual ebooks and launched last week. The gimmick here is I choose public domain books available on Project Gutenberg and illustrate a cover for them. Using references to…
Leave a CommentOne of the projects I have been working on is creating cover illustration art work for classic novels. My shtick here is to use today’s digital culture references in the illustrations. My other shtick is to package them with the classic novels themselves and offer them as free ebooks. Since…
Comments closedI had the pleasure of speaking to a grade 4 class on the other side of the country via Skype. My how times have changed! The topic was illustration, comics, cartooning and animation. I told them how lucky they were to be living in the Internet age where anyone can…
Leave a CommentI recently relaunched my webcomic Superspud.com as a graphic blog (read: graphic journalism). My latest post reflects my frustration and utter bewilderment of the new UI for Skype 5.1 for Mac. In a nutshell, it’s unintuitive. I think the comic explains exactly how I feel using it. Click on the…
Leave a CommentRoderick, the practical joking guardian angel of Spud is back in colouring book form (well, page) for you to download and colour! It’s my submission for the 2010 Catholic New Media Advent Calendar organized by my friend Sean McGaughey. Each day of the online Advent calendar opens up to a…
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