Our Visiting Artist this week was Joel Christian Gill a fascinating cartoonist who's passion is telling stories about the forgotten Black characters from History. He teaches at the NH Institute of Art. He told us his own story about how his family was the richest Black family in their Southern town - but...
I'm not sure there is a relation between the two types of comics in the title... but I finished my Non-fiction Project. It was due last Wednesday and after getting some feedback, I decided to follow through with the feedback and add a few more pages to tie everything back to the concept...
Maybe the week went so fast because I had so much work due, or maybe because I got so little sleep... staying up till 4am most nights! But it started pretty well - last Saturday - an evening out with the Fireman at The Local, spent listening to Brad Myrick and drinking whiskey sours. And...
Today, instead of a Visiting Artist, we had Industry Day with 4 experts from different areas of the Comics Publishing field. Tracy Hurren is an editor at Drawn & Quarterly. Bill Boichel runs Copacetic Comics Co. Jennifer Linnan is a literary agent at Linnan Literary Management. Joan Hilty runs PageTurner and teaches at SVA. It...
To see what I did on my Spring Break, take a look at my Beez In The Belfry blog post. It involved the ocean and lots of chocolate - so, in all, an excellent break! I got a lot of time to draw comics while I was in Bar Harbor. I wandered around, sat in...
If you are in school, and you get Spring Break, you are supposed to head to the beach, right? I went to the Maine coast! I spent a few days hanging out at my sister's house in Bar Harbor. She's renovating a house nearby to rent as apartments in the summer....
