…on Tall Tale Radio. Tom Racine was kind enough to contact me about being interviewed for my ArtBloom project for his podcast series on art and cartooning. I won’t go into detail right now about ArtBloom and the philosophy behind it, since we get into it during the interview. But visit Tall Tale Features to hear more, or you can listen to the interview below. I hope I didn’t sound too out there. Sometimes I can get pretty thearetical. :P Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to...

Forgive the look of the site as I upgrade both WordPress and my theme. Upgrading is always a headache, especially since I like to modify my themes so much…and thus it leaves my blog looking like a jumbled mess of half-finished plugins, broken CSS, and missing images. I do enjoy me a challenge. :)

This is pretty entertaining: “Star Wars,” as retold by someone who has never seen the original trilogy. It’s hard to believe sometimes that these stories, which permeate our culture so deeply, can slip by certain people. But then, I knew someone in college who had never seen Star Wars…and I also knew someone who had never eaten an orange before. Go figure. Anyway, you can see how even to someone who has never seen it, iconic stories can still leave an impression. In this version, all the basic elements are there – they’re just…scrambled…a bit. :)...

An interesting concept that I came across while at the Innovations in Learning Conference was that democracy is not the voice of the many, but the voice of the majority. This is obvious, of course…democracy is based on majority rules, and the majority chooses one law or person to govern the rest. I suppose it’s hardly fair when you think about it…the many are distilled down into the one, which makes it impossible for the one to represent the needs of the many…and this is meant to be the most ideal form of government in our Western society. However, it got me thinking: what...

Here is one of my earlier posts about comics and sequential art. Apologies for the rather academic approach: I tend to get a little theoretical with my musings.  :) The art of comics has been around for over a century, and sequential art is far older than that. Traditionally, comics were presented in print media, and had to submit to the limitations of such media. Will Eisner wrote in Graphic Storytelling that his definition of comics is “the printed arrangement of art and balloons in sequence, particularly in comic books”. Scott McCloud followed suit in Understanding Comics with...

I wish more artists would be willing to share their early mistakes. Most of my (our?) role models are so well-polished by the time I begin to gaze upon – or listen to – their work with wonder, that I think they can’t possibly have started out as horrible as I am now. Or Heaven foribid, worse. That’s why I love the self-publishing culture of the Internet. Whenever I come across a gallery or webcomic, it’s likely that I’ll find some of the artist’s early, early work, the kind of thing that would make a normal person embarrassed. But they share it anyway,...