A few years back Dan Mishkin and I finished the first chapter to a graphic novel about a school for Amazons. Various projects forced me to stop working on this, but we keep talking about starting it up again. And then I think of panels like this and need a nap.
But then I think about working with Dan again and I’m energized to get to the desk!
One of my favorite episodes. The ideas in this series are a big influence on my work, but this episode in particular. Young Jerzy thought violence was scary, but the adults in his life seemed to think it was a normal, acceptable thing. Thank goodness for Lou Schiemer and the writers of this series, who presented kid Jerzy with alternatives.
Exploring exciting action while avoiding glamorizing violence was an important idea in the making of my book, The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. I’m hopeful that kids who need it will find support in my book the way I did in this show.
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One of the many crowd scenes I drew for Jon David Guerra’s Nightmare Pro Wrestling. This was some of the most fun I’ve ever had making comics.
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I got away for the weekend to do some distraction-free drawing. I’m trying to engage with art in a more playful spirit, but that doesn’t always come easy for me.
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A comic strip I made for the Lean Into Art 2-Minute Practice. For a good while my friend Rob Stenzinger and I tried various brief activities to foster our creativity. Listen to our discussion on this practice here.
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For those of us who need to write today and need some motivational listening, here’s an hour of restored background music from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon.
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Back in 2012 a cartoonist friend pointed me at a call for samples for a licensed comic for kids. As a fan of comics based on licensed properties like G.I. Joe, Transformers, SiverHawks, and more, I was excited about the chance. I found out it was for a comics series based on the Monster ? High toys.
By today’s standards 8-year-old Jerzy might be described as “gender nonconforming,” but in my mind I just thought stuff that was marketed for girls was just as cool as the stuff marketed to me. I collected Strawberry Shortcake dolls, I watched the Jem cartoon, and the Rose Petal Place tape that came with my sister’s dolls got regular play. And I love the Universal Monsters! I thought this might be a fun chance to apply what I know about comics to this line of fashion dolls.
They gave me a brief script to draw. I penciled on bristol, inked in Clip Studio Paint (then Manga Studio 5), and colored in Photoshop.
I remember getting favorable notes back from the editors. They liked the acting and the energy I brought to the characters. But someone at MH didn’t like the way I drew the shoes. I updated the drawings several times, but I never got to what they wanted. To be fair, the characters’ shoes are intricately designed, so I don’t blame them. It was a fun experiment, regardless!
And if any toy license holders are looking for an artist who can bring your characters to life on a page, you can look over here!
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Hang onto your catalytic data assemblies; this episode debuts a NEW SEGMENT!! PLUS: Hoover solves a mystery! The guys pitch to IDW!! And the Autobots laugh at someone getting murdered!!! All this, and it’s part 4 of a 3-part series!! MATH IS HARD!!! http://FourMillionYearsLater.com Befriend the FOUR MILLION YEARS LATER page on Facebook! Closing theme by Nick Mehalick : https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-mehal… Please email us! FourMillionYearsLater@gmail.com
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Ship’s Cook Maggie doesn’t just tell a story. She TELLS it.
From my upcoming remaster of Boulder and Fleet: A Friendly Game.
Morana was initially viewed as a goddess of fertility and mother of all that is living. She resembled the positive sides of the Great Mother archetype just to later be shifted into an evil bringer of disease and old age. She became a goddess of long and cold winters that brought death, famine, and extreme temperatures of a deathly gaze.
Some Slavic legend states that Baba Yaga was the creation of Morana or that even Morana transformed into her. As it goes with her trickster nature, Morana was believed to transform into a girl called Marinka who tempted the hero Dobrynya.
The tradition of burning or drowning an effigy of Marzanna to celebrate the end of winter is a folk custom that survives in the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, and Slovakia.
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