TPD Special: Influences: Indiana Jones, with Jerzy Drozd & Ben Hatke

I’m starting a series of special discussions with some friends, focusing on art that influenced The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. In this first TPD Special I’m joined by Ben Hatke, author of the upcoming
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Word Balloon Design Notes

Some notes from a short classroom lesson I led on word balloon design. Symmetry and negative space are two of my basic concerns when structuring the text in a balloon.Find my upcoming classes here.

Gloom, Doom, Broom

Some original art from 1998’s Ninja High School Annual. If I remember right, the title of this one was, Gloom, Doom, Broom! a story wherein our heroes face a mob of haunted jack-o’-lanterns with broomstick bodies on motorcycles. The balloon
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