I'm not quite sure if my Odyssey project met with approval or not. The impressions and notes I wrote down during critique suggest that people didn't really get it. There was confusion about the creatures changing from one page to the next and whether the spaceman was being sucked IN to...
Overall, it was a nice weekend home with the kid. But very stressful too. I have decided that there just is NO way to maintain multiple homes... the apartment, the house, and the studio. Granted, I am cleaning out and trying to rent the studio - but that alone is impossible. There just isn'...
Kriota Willberg is a dancer, massage therapist, and anatomical/medical cartoonist! Not only did she speak this afternoon as one of our visiting artists, but she came to life drawing class this morning. Sure, she knows everything about bones and muscles and where they attach on the skeleton.... but what was SO cool was that...
It started VERY early this morning... but I'd been so nervous I had trouble sleeping... and that crazy giant cat (cats?) upstairs was running a derby or something. At one point, the wall next to my bed shook when... IT... jumped, or hit the wall... who knows? I was so sick yesterday, my...
Our visiting artist this week, Dylan Horrocks, was a soft-spoken cartoonist from New Zealand. Although his work didn't immediately grab my attention, I did feel camaraderie with him when I learned he was around my age and has kids - one the same age as my own son. He's got a...
Although our class this year has more women than men, in general, I find myself wondering "where are the women in the comic world?!" The books we read about the history of comics are all about men - "The Men of Tomorrow", "Marvel Men", etc. This reminds me of...
