This kid’s parents really show be keeping a closer eye on him FALL CONVENTION SCHEDULE Because there is nothing better for a mid-life crisis than long drives with nothing to do but think about everything you wished you had done differently ( most of which involves me EVER starting this… Continue reading
This may be for you, this may be for someone you know, this maybe for someone you don’t even know is out there. SHARE THIS…it is very possible someone needs it and you don’t even know it I know you’re out there I’ve been where you’re at or Suicide… Continue reading
It’s not often I am shocked or left with out words. I don’t know what I want to say, of what he’d want me to say. I found out that Nick Post died yesterday. If you knew Nick you are probably just as shocked as I am. If you didn’t… Continue reading
Well, yesterday I told you about a FB post from one Jimmy Palmotti (that blog is here http://arseniclullabies.com/wordpress/?p=1606) Here is the post in question Jimmy Palmiotti 42 mins · Safety Harbor, FL · Why Amanda can no longer do free sketches at cons. Happens every single con. ps: do not… Continue reading
I go home and I think about you, and I laugh I saw a blurb on my Facebook feed the other night that makes my opportunities to slither out of this industry into larger mediums all the more satisfying. If nothing else I won’t be in the same field as… Continue reading
The cream forces itself to the top. I’ve been a writer and illustrator for a while now, and my independently published comic Arsenic Lullaby has become a benchmark of sorts. Somewhere along the way I have unwittingly graduated from loud mouth punk to elder statesman in the eyes of peers… Continue reading
Up to now I have been able to watch with glee as Marvel and DC and others butcher, bastardize, and homogenize your childhood favorites. Hahaha I laughed to myself as they made the Human Torch black, (which by the way ,Marvel, is ripe for racist jokes about how he’s burned… Continue reading
Illustrating a comic book means telling a story with words and pictures. The better someone is at this, the better they are using words, pictures, and panels…and camera angles, vanishing points, backgrounds, panel composition and overall page composition…and about a dozen other techniques, for making a compelling story that draws… Continue reading
Before you spend one more red cent on a comic book owned by a giant corporation, that doesn’t give a rats ass about the characters you know and love, the continuity of the mythos you grew up with, how much they are overcharging you, or even the quality of their… Continue reading
“The culture of suck it up” I hear politicians say a lot of things…and I have at some point reached the age where…frankly I just don’t give a rats ass. Gay Marriage, abortion, health care…I don’t care anymore. I don’t. And it’s not worth my… Continue reading
