Entries from August 2008

August 14, 2008

“Today’s Special”

Emme’s Aunt Diana and niece Andrea dropped by last week.  Andrea asked me to draw her something, so I did:

I’ve been really taken lately by how dramatic the cloud formations over Vermont have been.  We’ve had such a wet, humid summer it seems like the sky is just a few combining clouds away from another [...]

August 12, 2008

I Love Kristin Hersh

I’m working on “Recidivists” right now, a collection of anthology submissions that missed their deadlines. The biggest comic in it, Deanna’s Story, will be about a girl I’m modeling on Mrs. Hersh.
In the meantime, here’s a sketch based on her smashingly-excellent cover of the Beatles “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (Except Me & My [...]

August 7, 2008

Frank Miller = Spirited Mayhem? Pt.1

I’m already sick of the sniping at Frank Miller’s Spirit movie, because I don’t know enough about The Spirit to join in.
Luckily, I’m near a collection of  the entire Spirit archive, and I started reading.  I’m beginning to wonder if Frank Miller really is so “off” with the movie… I mean:
Aside from everything else, is [...]