11/10/2014

ICAF 2014

I will be speaking at the International Comics Art Forum at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. The same place I were I worked this Summer as part of an Internship.

I will be giving an edited version of the paper I wrote for my first M.A Art History course (Art DiFuria's Historiography): "Daumier's Deadline: Expedited Expressiveness and the Franco-Belgian Cartooning Tradition."




This is my second time to speak at ICAF. I spoke at the 2011 Conference.

10/13/2014

Halloween 2014

Kristie and I made pieces for the Savannah Dick Blick Halloween show. They were giving out frames at an earlier event, so it seemed like a thing to do.
 I did a couple pumpkins making a bad pun.
I was almost done with the painting before I decided which pun to use. I can't even recall the other puns I considered...


 Here's Kristie and Ollie at the show:
She won 3rd place adult for her piece. It lit up. It's barely visible here.

8/12/2014

John Lowe's Foundations in Comic Book Art

Friend and colleague John Lowe recently completed his comics textbook for Watson-Guptill. It's called Foundations in Comic Book Art: Fundamental Tools and Techniques for Sequential Artist.



On page 68, Lowe uses a photo he took of me at the 2012 Mini-Comic Expo as visual research for a story about a fellow named 'David Duncan' who is framed for murder in 1920's New York. 

Have my mail forwarded to Blackwell's Island.

6/24/2014

Ages of the X-Men Book

I wrote and article for The Ages of the X-Men, a book of essays that correlate X-Men comics to the time periods in which they were published (or represent).

On pages 128 - 144 you'll find the final version of my essay on Generation X:

3/01/2014

Kevin Cannon visit to SCAD

During the Winter 2014 quarter, I was able to invite cartoonist Kevin Cannon of Big Time Attic down as part of the Mini-Comics Expo. Athena was a able to convince him to come down. We do an expo once a year. It's my big event for the year.

As part of his visit Kevin gave a lecture at the Clarence Thomas Center for Historic Preservation (my favorite place to host a lecture--it has a little chapel for speakers). So I got to introduce his talk.






1/30/2014

Silas the Alien: In the Briny Deep








This is a little mini-comics that I made for my Mini-Comics class. We are doing an inter-campus exchange. The SCAD sequential art department at the following campuses: Savannah, Atlanta, and Lacoste are all exchanging minis (just a quarter-size letter/a4 page, which gives you 6 pages of comic plus a front and back cover). Each student makes around 60 copies of their comic (easy to print on campus since it's only a single sheet front a back--cost is nil) and in turn each will receive 60 comics from the other students. I think I will try and organize this exchange each Winter Quarter.

Admittedly I crapped this one out pretty fast. Here's the pencils: