Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Things continue to roll along with the Kickstarter campaign for The Littlest Shoggoth. In fact, the last couple of days have been trending up a bit. Could be that the “doldrums” are about to turn into a “last minute frenzy” . . . but I certainly won’t count those proverbial chickens until they hatch. In [...]
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
As if I needed more reasons to promote my ongoing Kickstarter campaign for The Littlest Shoggoth, it turns out that November is not merely the time of NaNoWriMo, it’s also Picture Book Month! I was, of course completely unaware of that when I picked this as the month to run a fund drive for my [...]
Monday, November 19, 2012
The first week of my Kickstarter campaign for The Littlest Shoggoth went well . . . quite well, actually (though I’m having a difficult time figuring out how the week passed that quickly). I started the week with a stated goal of raising $5,000 over the course of 35 days, and I end the week [...]
I’ve got a real soft spot for what’s called “all ages” comics. This will come as no surprise to those who know me well. And anyone who’s paid attention to how often I like to blog about things like Hayao Miyazaki films, cartoonists like Charles Schultz and Bill Waterson, and the works of Dr. Seuss [...]
I neglected to mention it the other week, but I put a new comic up at the 10′x10′ Toon site. That’s a pretty rare occurrence these days, and it makes me feel sad to realize it. There was a good 10 months or so back a couple of years ago where I was succeeding in [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012
As I said in my previous post, yesterday was Hourly Comic Day 2012 — a day when cartoonists all over the world participate in a fun challenge: To draw an autobiographical comic during (and about) every hour that they are awake during the day. I’ve been participating in Hourly Comic Day since 2007, and I [...]
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
I haven’t been doing as much cartooning as I’d like, recently. But for at least one day, that’s changed. Today is Hourly Comic Day — a day when pro and amateur cartoonists around the globe participate in a fun little exercise, doing an autobiographical comic for every hour that they are awake during a single [...]
Today is another of my artist holidays … well … actually it’s TWO of my artist holidays all rolled into one square on the calendar. June 21st is both Al Hirschfeld’s and Berke Breathed’s birthdays. Al Hirshfeld is one of the great caricaturists of the 20th-century, indeed (in my opinion) of all time. I became [...]
A few weeks ago, my friend Jeff made a post on his blog about a trip he and his wife made down to the Tacoma Art Museum to see a Norman Rockwell exhibit that featured ALL of his Saturday Evening Post covers and a roomful of original paintings. Rockwell is someone whose work has always [...]
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Okay! Here we are … 2011! Everything is shiny and new! Well … just as shiny and new as things are EVERY morning. That’s really the lesson I like to take from New Year’s Day … because I’ve always found it a little silly to mark this one calendar day as a “new start” when [...]