four… (the countdown to seven years!)
I recently mentioned that I had ordered a couple new books from Amazon that were specifically cartooning and drawing technique books. They arrived late last week and I’ve had few days to flip through them and take in some of the details. Both are reprints of really old books — [...]

I was p’lunkering on my short story efforts the other week and I thought to myself that the text in question would translate very well into a graphic format. I’m note sure; Is there something between “graphic novel” and “comic book?” It’s not a particularly funny story, so “comic” is not appropriate. I’ve been [...]

Some people know that I’m a real sucker for animation. I should have done that for serious, gone to art school, learned to draw, and then sketched out little animated movies. It would have been more real.
I’m not talking about every bit of animation. It all has it’s place. But there [...]

There is a cascade of creativity. It becomes somewhat katamari in nature. A seed. A thought. Transcending. Growing. Picking up refuse along the way.
My little writing project has been going exceedingly well. I crossed the thirty-thousand word mark on the weekend. It’s still modular, bohemian gibberish, but the [...]

A week ago I posted a self sketch of me on South Park. Not too many of you felt compelled to send in your own south-park-self-portraits, but I did get a couple (plus I made one of my mother) for posting today.

Whatever, enjoy. Click on the thumbnails for [...]

Whatever happened to this show? We used to watch it all the time, and occasionally I catch an episode on the tube, but are they still making it. Someone linked to a site that lets you make your own character for South Park (the animated sitcom, not the car dealership on Whyte Avenue). [...]

It’s about respect. It’s nothing to do with freedom of the press. “Freedom” is not about carte blanche to select people to write or say or do what they feel like. Groups have freedom while individuals have responsibilities. That’s all. Freedom is what groups have and individuals maintain through their [...]

I subscribed to the pay-version of comics.com a couple of weeks ago. I get all my favorite syndicated comic strips delivered to my gmail-box every day. I’m thoroughly enjoying it. Cheaper than buying a newspaper. Plus I get to weed out all the crap.
This isn’t an advertisement. I just [...]

With very little remorse and plenty of gurgling humour, I crushed a meme within the skull of my six-year-old cousin this past weekend.
Kids have stacks of those weird concepts, anyhow. I suppose, ultimately, it’s better that they lose them slowly and from a variety of sources than all at once. It would be [...]

I find myself creatively overwhelmed this time of year. It’s an annual event. For example, last year as I hobbled between a cartooning class, a month-long novel project build-up and writing, my general photographic efforts, and the onslaught of a massive web-redesign at work — I found myself thinking, on more than one [...]

I spent the whole day at home yesterday suffering from some sort of little stomach bug that was more irritating than painful. I am back at work today, mostly better, though worse-for-wear after my always-entertaining bus trip. The value of spending a whole day just a toe past the line dividing health and [...]

My Comic Book Publishing class starts tonight at Langara College. Three hours out of a precious Monday evening, for eight consecutive weeks. It had better be worth it… Grrrr…