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A couple hundred pages.

Posted in Chronicle Books, Earthling!, Illustration Techniques, Sketch, Visual Development, Work in progress, aliens, all ages comics, character design, childrens books, comic books, graphic novels, illustration, kids books, sketch book, tagged , , on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I originally started this posting off with quotes about writing and rewriting. Then I rewrote it. Enough said.
As I have been working on the revised draft of Earthling! I have also been doing some quick thumbnails of pages to see how I might alter the script once I get into drawing. The two sides go hand-in-hand. But [...]

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And then they invented Kids Car Seats

Posted in Blatherings, Life with kids, Oregon, tagged , on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m far from being a mechanical genius. But I thought I could tackle a kids car seat easily enough. What hubris. 
I spent about 2 hours ( seemed like 6) crawling around my back seat adjusting the seat now that my daughter seems to be growing 5 inches a week. How I ever got the seat installed [...]

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Life in Oregon

Posted in Oregon, cartoons, tagged , on April 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

It’s that time of year again. I’m not talking about the occasional view of the yellow, burning orb in the sky. Nor the lack of wet stuff falling. It’s power washing season in the suburbs. This is a habit I haven’t witnessed before. Come April and May the soothing sounds of air-pressure driven power [...]

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So, what’s a graphic novel?

Posted in Illustration Techniques, Visual Development, childrens books, comic books, comics creators, graphic novels, tagged , , , on April 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I am often asked the question: “What’s the difference between a comic book and a graphic novel.”
Loaded question. A histoy of debate and academic pronouncments that fill books…literally. And I’m not even going to step into it. I don’t think there’s enough room on the internet. I will say the easiest way to describe the [...]

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Different Strokes and Different Meaning

Posted in You Tube, tagged , , on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I saw this on Mark Evanier’s blog. Demonstrates the power of music to create mood and alter the meaning of images. Watch the opening of the TV show Different Strokes with a whole new POV.

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Hockney-esque?

Posted in Animation Artists, Animation Monday, animated short, animation, animation art, tagged , , , on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

From Cartoonbrew, a very cool animation that use a multidimensional approach. Yeah, that’s it.

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Willamette Writers

Posted in Comic Strips, TV Animation, Tricycle Press, Work in progress, animated short, animation, childrens books, comic books, comics creators, graphic novels, tagged , , , , on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been invited to speak at the Salem Willamette Writers chapter on May 14th. I’ll be talking about writing for children across media. What does that mean? Good question! I created the title of the talk, now I better develop the content.
Actually I have  strong opinions about the quality and variety of content available for [...]

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Graphic Novel!

Posted in Earthling!, The Thing with No Head, UCLA, Work in progress, all ages comics, animated short, graphic novels, tagged , on April 7, 2009 | 6 Comments »

The contract is finally done and I can talk about a project I am really excited about. I will be doing a graphic novel with Chronicle Books! Don’t hold your breath…it’s due out is 2011. So I have some time to get it done. I’ll be drawing and writing this one, so my spell check [...]

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