I've been doing so much that I haven't found time to post anything.
I was able to give a paper at the 2011 International Comics Art Forum. This year it was at the Center for Cartoon Studies, so I was finally able to visit that school. My camera is absolute crap, so I don't have any good pics.
I'll write more later.
10/10/2011
9/09/2011
Cleaning the lettering pens.
It must be Fall--I'm cleaning my pens for my SEQA 386 Hand-Lettering and Typography for Comics class. A few hours soak in Windex usually does them pretty good.
8/17/2011
Hair Cut Guts Redux
Since I reworked the cover of Playing to the Haircuts, I decided to throw some some gray tones over the inside pages. The story is really just a few pages of Julie and Fred vaudevillian banter. Everything looks fancier when you print it on cream off-white paper. Here's a page.
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9mW8NMeT2QA/TkxIDcepvhI/AAAAAAAAA8I/jSf3UquHXkY/s400/PTTHC_05.jpg)
8/14/2011
Playing to the Haircuts - screenprinting.
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BN82JnIrpI8/TkhsFtrMatI/AAAAAAAAA74/tOrA_wFDec4/s400/Working%2BClass.jpg)
In 2010 the class did a set of stories based on Rhyming Disorders (I forget the name right now). I was knee-deep in department chair duties, so I didn't get to make a book that year.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AF-G7e7zTBs/Tkh0DwbYuVI/AAAAAAAAA8A/sHmbjfElJg4/s320/IMAG0039.jpg)
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NQv-PZPLph8/TkhE9XuCbMI/AAAAAAAAA7A/BHM_5ejU5JE/s400/Haircut_v0.jpg)
That's what went into the set, but when I printed another round I wanted to add a second color to the print. Sometimes when I want a second color on a print but don't want to burn a second screen I'll just tape off certain areas on the under-side of the screen and print a transparent layer over a few sections. Here's the taped-up screen:
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8LIwjafxFvk/TkhFIv3cyhI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/e07E8GvA6wU/s400/01-tape.jpg)
I blocked off the background so that the characters would have the yellow layer. You can see the blocked off areas from the squeegee side when I hold it up the window:
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_JQAhxtMhjU/TkhFI_lFkQI/AAAAAAAAA7g/GJaiftzgadY/s400/02-light.jpg)
I printed it up and it looked like this:
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1dbzLvCIXV0/TkhE9YBZudI/AAAAAAAAA7I/aHvw0KfnoQI/s400/Haircut_v1.jpg)
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0OGVrXUsM4k/TkhE9grd4FI/AAAAAAAAA7Q/liCc8lsqzJw/s400/Haircut_v2.jpg)
7/27/2011
7/21/2011
SDCC Booth
My SCAD booth-mates: Derek Larson, John Lowe, and Heather Dietzold. Come visit if you're at the San Diego Comic-Con! Booth # 5568.
7/16/2011
7/06/2011
6/29/2011
5/18/2011
5/11/2011
5/04/2011
4/27/2011
4/20/2011
4/06/2011
3/09/2011
3/02/2011
1/18/2011
1/13/2011
1/11/2011
2011.
So I'm out of excuses now--Holidays are over and school has begun. New strips start Thursday! Three week break is over.
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yK4ZdaIIR8g/TSz5MpU0gJI/AAAAAAAAA2w/RtkStgKKQgI/s200/024-thumb.jpg)
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