Hey all, here are some recent paintings I did. Enjoy. The first one was inspired by the work of this artist, though it might not look like it. I started with a sketch in orange and then I did the lines on top. This watercolor painting is from the Southwest Airline […]

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A new Jam Comic from the San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy was just posted on-line. It’s a Halloween story that is a first for the jam group since it was created based on a script. The artist in the group are really awesome and are doing some snazzy work. CLICK HERE to find out more.

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Fellow bay area artist Alex Schumacher has revealed some new artwork on his My World is Funnier blog. It seems he is working on a superhero comic book where his original goal was to do comic strips. Check out his sneak peek image HERE.

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TOMORROW Saturday, August 11, I will be at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa CA for a artist-in-residence sketch-a-thon. 1 pm to 3 pm. It features cartoonist who have visited as the artist-in-residence in the museums first 5 years. Come on by and see me.
Here is the official press from the website:
Cartoonist Open House and […]

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If you ever meet Phil Foglio he will talk your ear off at how great his comic is doing. He is posting pages of his series Girl Genus on-line instead of releasing a separate comic book. Now I have talked with Phil a few times, but what inspired me to wrote this post was something […]

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Here is an update on the page-in-progress I was working on….

I have started to detail the water in both panels and started to do some brush work on the raven. I will post the final version when it’s ready.
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I was reminded by a reader of my log that I have not posted much about my Graphic Novel lately. This is in part that I have been busy with some other projects: Teaching cartooning at a youth center, freelance illustration and graphics, private teaching, etc. So I though it was time to post a […]

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This week I participated in a 12 hr comic book jam with my friends TJ, Larry, and Toni. It’s a halved version of the famous 24 hour comic book challenge. It was on Friday from 11am to 11pm.
The goal was to create 12 finished pages of comic book art for a complete story. I […]

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