I an just back from the comic shop and I bought two comics: The Escapists 4 Scarlet Traces 4 But that wasn’t my only trip this week. In addition to my local shop I was down in NYC yesterday and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I bought some new pencils today. A pack of twelve 4B drawing pencils. 4B is the designation for how soft the graphite in a pencil is. The scale goes from 9H which is nearly as hard as a rock and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a more fruitful trip to the comic shop this week than the last two. I bought five comics: Battler Britton 4 Jonah Hex 12 Fear Agent 8 The Winter Men 5 American Splendor 2 I really liked Following[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hate coming up empty. That’s when I’m trying to make some art and I got nothin’. I doesn’t help that I always got something. By that I mean I always have a box full of ideas and drawings to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just a quick note to you fans of comics in the NYC area. I caught the masters of comic art show at the Jewish Museum (92nd and 5th) and it was cool. They had a lot of original art by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just one comic this week. Usagi Yojimbo 97. Slow, slow, slow. At least for me. I also grabbed Following Cerebus 9 which is an issue devoted to Neal Adams. It’s a hundred pages long and the type is tiny so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have always been a fan of chocolate and I’m diggin’ a new chocolate experience. I prefer dark chocolate to milk chocolate so dark chocolate miniatures have always been a staple of my diet. But in the last year or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a couple of whirlwind weeks at the comic shop things have slowed down. I got two comics this week. Strangers in Paradise 84 (only 6 issues left they count down every cover) and The Walking Dead 31. I also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Turning thoughts into writing. That was the subject of the book I saw at the bookstore the other day. It struck me as odd. What else was someone supposed to turn into writing? I didn’t purchase the book or read[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another week another batch o’ comics. Today I got: Love and Rockets 17, Scarlet Traces: The Great Game 3, Ex Machina 23, and the Escapists 3. I also picked up a high end magazine ($19.99!) about comic art. It is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…