My first classes I taught (two of them) at the Charles Schulz Museum and Research Center was fantastically. I want to thank Jessica and the museum staff who made sure the whole thing went off with out a hitch. My visit a wonderful experience. 4-19-06 I arrived at the museum at 7:40am, the sun breaking …
Apr 18
Kids classes at the Schulz Museum Tomorrow and this Friday!
I am teaching two classes at the Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa for their Spring Break week. It’s a great time to take the kids down to see the museum. Crazy and Cute Critter Creations: Wednesday, April 19 (TOMORROW!!) Learn how to create your own cartoon animals and how to make them cute, crazy, …
Apr 18
Wondercon 2006 photos
Josep Blas, creator of the comic book Space Punks has some nice photo from Wondercon 2006. There is a photo of me there, can you find it? tags: space punks|comic|Josep Blas|
Apr 17
5 Card Nancy – an on-line game
When it’s rainy outside and you have nothing to do, why not play Five Card Nancy. This is an odd little game, from an idea from comic’s historian Scott McCloud. It’s a hard to explain game, so why try when I can just quote some rules that Mr. McCloud has on his site. Why Nancy? …
Apr 16
Cartooning Class Diary: 4-15-06
Today’s class I thought was at the Cartoon Art Museum. I had an excellent group of all new kids. Some were all the way from the UK and Israel. The first step on designing a character for us was to make a sheet of different mouth and eye expressions…. Next the students copied their favorite …
Apr 15
Steve Hamaker’s Blog – a master of comic/cartoon color
Steve Hamaker is the talented colorist of the comic book series Bone, as well as a talented cartoonist in his own right (fish and chips). I just found he has an excellent BLOG in which he talks about coloring the art for the new scholastic editions of Bone by Jeff Smith. The guy’s color work …
Apr 15
‘Fun Fest’ Comic from the Cartoonist Conspiracy(SF cell).
Here is a color version of the Cartoonist Conspiracy comic cover: Fun Fest. The drawing is by PoopyHead Pee Pee Headpeepeehed, digitally colored by me. It was drawn last Thursday at the Cartoonist conspiracy(SF Cell). The back cover is drawn be me and scanned/colored in photoshop. I tried to have the color be used more …
