This podcast is a treasure for creative people (that’s all of us, by the way). Even if you don’t think of yourself as a writer, Alex and Chris have something to offer you. Their wisdom and reflections don’t just apply
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Everything I’ve been up to!
A Barbarian Horse in the Snow
A wintery panel from my upcoming book, The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. I thought having a chapter of the book take place in the arctic would make things easier on artist Jerzy and his
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A Button Labeled “Surprise” – Alan Watts
I was charmed by this talk by Alan Watts. First, there’s the intuition that we’d eventually have phones that can bring us anything we want, but then he steers right into a consequence of abundance. Reminded me of the Twilight
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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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Drawing with Gregg Schigiel
Recently on the live stream I was joined by Gregg Schigiel, creator of the Zooperhero Universe hybrid book series. We talked about the modular storytelling approach Gregg uses for his books, the astonishingly low amount of FOMO we feel this
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Amazons Mingling
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
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Double-Edged Sword
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
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Nightmare Monsters and Wrestling
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.
Weekend Doctor Baer Watercoloring
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.
Doctor Baer comic strip
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.
