90% of what I do, you never see. Countless pages of trial and error, countless sketches leading up to those pages, countless ideas leading up to those sketches. How much of that 90% was necessary as a “means to an end”…Lord only knows. The art Director at Mad Magazine told… Continue reading
When you are inking, you want to be loose…as in not tense. I have a bunch of pages that I have been saving to do last, for the next book. Illustrating can be just like any other physical skill, like say…being a pitcher in the major leagues, you are… Continue reading
Chasing Dr.Seuss I am notorious for doing things over and wringing my hands over details. At the level I take it , it is probably not good. HOWEVER…all you illustrators, or illustrators in the making, who have heard this while worrying about some detail -“no one is going to notice… Continue reading
There is a scene in the original Star Trek t.v. show where Dr. bone takes a smart pill or absorbs smart rays or something and starts doing a brain transplant with supreme confidence…then the ray or pill wears off and he becomes terrified and questions why he ever thought he… Continue reading
It’s the 150th anniversary of Alice In Wonderland. Quite a milestone for a book. Sort of. Just being 150 years old is more or less inevitable, barring any unforeseen apocalyptic obliteration of time itself. Alice in Wonderland is 150 years old, Arsenic Lullaby will one day be 150 years old…hell,… Continue reading
(pics at bottom) “amid all chaos there is calculation” Lorde “we don’t need luck, we have talent” Steve Dahl Comic-Con International. 150,000 plus people. A convention center 7 city blocks long, three city blocks deep, full of every publisher, video game company, t.v. network, movie studio, and toy company even… Continue reading
HOLY SH*T KID! COMICS! or The road to Comic-con International Part 3 We’ve already gone over how less and less of Comic-Con International has anything to do with actual comic books, and how, at our booth anyway, we would be drawing a line in the sand and focusing on our… Continue reading
The road to Comic-con International part 2 By now many of you who are NOT going to the big con are just about as tired of hearing about it as seeing posts about the confederate flag or hearing about the fate of Kaytlin Jenner’s dick. Well, all I can say… Continue reading
For most people summertime includes outdoors and vacations. My industry has it’s largest convention right in the middle of it, so for me it means deadlines, and long hours. I have done very little besides work, and prepare for the con usually with HBO’s Deadwood on in the background. It’s… Continue reading
Last update June 27 Stay tuned for more possible surprises as we close in on the show! Including details on the “stump Doug on Deadwood quotes for 50% off” contest Link below is for our place on the CCI Exclusives webpage. We will have the three listed there, and one… Continue reading
