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Listening to Blind Lemon Jefferson a lot lately, I recently learned he died on this day 90 years ago, so I thought I would draw a tribute to him. Jefferson was a pioneer of the Texas blues, but he seemed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new Joker movie looks so deep. A meditation on how mental illness causes mass violence and not, say, misogyny or racism or antisemitism combined with easy access to rapid fire guns. Just what we need.
A digital sketch I did last month as a warm up exercise relied on an old pic of the late great Marc Bolan, founder of T. Rex. I think this is on the cover of one of his albums. He[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last year I borrowed a Cintiq from my friend Barry Deutsch and started learning how to use it. One of the exercises I assigned myself was to ink and color in Photoshop a sketch drawn in pencil. I chose James[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a progression of sketches of Gogol as I study his face and head toward the caricature I am aiming for. I am closer, but still not quite there yet. Still, I like these. The main challenge was his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The other day I read a blog post about a Tumblr-based controversy involving comics by a friend of mine (whose name I’ll leave anonymous to protect them from further abuse.) I am on Tumblr frequently, but I follow friends, comics,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I read The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov for the first time a few years ago. It reignited my love of classic Russian writers, drove me back to Gogol, and eventually influenced the direction I am taking in comics[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the more ridiculous things said by libertarian extremists this week (who knows what next week might bring?) came from Senator Thom Tillis about government regulation of restaurants: Tillis said he was at a Starbucks in 2010 talking to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A New York Times article today echoes many NYT articles of Martin Luther King’s lifetime in dismissing the activist efforts of young people — black young people in particular — as unfocused, lacking leadership, what’s the point, etc etc. Just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…