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We’re speaking as guests in Richard Rubenfeld’s graduate-level art seminar at Eastern Michigan University. Part One 70MB Part Two 65MB These are big enough files that I probably won’t leave them on the server for very long. Rather than listen directly, you’ll probably want to right-click and save them to your server. Or you can BitTorrent here: Part One Part … Read More

Yesterday, I drove back out to EMU and spoke to Richard Rubenfeld’s grad students. It’s something I’ve done in years past, and every year, I’ve had a really great time. On this trip, though, I was joined by Scott McCloud and Jim Ottaviani, and what fun it was! It’s always a joy to work with Jim; he’s so darn smart … Read More

A major motivating factor lately has been all the good comics I’ve been reading. I’ve spent about two hundred bucks in the last couple months on graphic novels. Collen Doran. Mark Smylie. Will Eisner. Eric Shanower. Harvey Pekar / Dean Haspiel. Guy Delisle. Those Flight anthologies. DVDs on Al Hirschfeld, Colleen Doran and American Splendor, plus the DVD of the … Read More

It’s been a long, gold, dark, damp, sulky, depressive winter. Last autumn I had all these fantasies of spending a nice quiet winter holed up in my studio, making all kinds of art. December was pretty much a wash, what with trying to visit two families and friends and relatives over the holidays. January and February were pretty okay, production-wise, … Read More

Scott McCloud is awesome. Well, you knew that, already. But, yikes, is he awesome. Paul and I hauled out to Ypsi on Monday to hear him talk at EMU, my alma mater. See, the thing about Eastern is that they somehow manage to land some of the most devoted, caring, intelligent professors you could ever hope to meet. Enter Richard … Read More

I can’t seem to find it on their website, but it appears that there’s going to be a rather nice, lengthy article on me, Colleen Doran, Layla Lawlor and Laurenn McCubbin in the Ypsilanti Courier. Lemme know if it comes out! I’m on the other side of the state and can’t get a paper copy easily.

Hey, everyone. By now I’m sure anyone reading this page is wondering where the heck the next book is. Well, I know I said it might have been done sometime in 2006, but it’s looking like there’s no way that’s going to happen short of a miracle or a lost job (*knocks wood furiously*). By the end of next week … Read More

Venerable comics genius Scott McCloud is going to be speaking at EMU on March 20th. All of you guys should totally go.

Beatrix over at When Fangirls Attack has some very interesting commentary today. Hearing stuff like this from her and Lea and Colleen makes me intensely glad that all my comics experiences have been positive, and even gladder that the group of Cornwhackers I hang out with at most cons is so well-adjusted. Yikes.

So there’s this minor problem with the freeware I’m using to do my left navigation. It’s the last thing to load, so if there’s a bunch of images all together, you’re basically stuck reading that page until all the pictures come up. The front page had a bunch of cool images, but it took for-bloody-ever for the nav to load. … Read More