one of the johns

This year was a weird one for me. There were a lot of things that happened and then, well, a lot of things that didn’t. Here’s my year in review:

Ah! Things have been really quiet here the last month or so, but not because I haven’t been busy! A bunch of Americus events have been going on back to back and I haven’t really had a lot of downtime in between. So I’m going to take some time now to catch everyone up and [...]

Since I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately, I thought I would share some notes that my old comics professor & mentor, the great Ted Stearn [of Fantagraphics' Fuzz & Pluck] gave out during Advanced Storyboarding. It’s pretty straightforward stuff, but they’ve been really helpful to have in front of me and keep in [...]

January was a little slower than I wanted it to be, but most of that was due to reasons out of my control. A new month is a week in [and a new lunar year too, if you want to look at it like that], and things have been picking up. I started the actual [...]

Obligatory Breeders song: Hope you’re all excited for the New Year as I am. One way I decided to celebrate is to rearrange my office for the first time in like 4 years. The layout has been carefully planned to maximize productivity. Also, I am a little obsessed with making these mash-up panoramic pictures, even [...]

I know – it’s not even Christmas yet – but things are going to speed by the next couple of weeks, so I thought I’d go ahead and write this now. So it’s the end of another year, and what a great one it has been! I wrote a post last December on the brownpaperbag [...]

Whew! I just finished out the super-long, incredibly thorough creator questionnaire for the Marketing & Promotions over at First Second. Now I like talking about myself as much as the next self-obsessed, egotistical artist, but man… after PAGES & PAGES, it just isn’t any fun anymore. Anyhow, I had to bust out a self-portrait to [...]

Merry Thanksgiving! Hope you don’t have to travel! Jason, Meghan & myself will be spending an orphan Thanksgiving with the devilishly charming, super handsome and incredibly bad-ass Dwayne Johnson. Besides eating a lot and spending time with friends & family, do yourself a Thanksgiving favor and head over to Ted Stearn’s website and read his comic, [...]