Hand-Lettering & Typography in Comics

Easily one of the coolest things about teaching here in Savannah is that I can design and teach a special-topics course. Here's a poster for a class I'm going to be teaching in the Winter Quarter.

Crow Quill demo.

A quick little in-class materials demo from my Intro to Sequential Art Class.

Twenty-seven.

Twenty-seven is much closer to Thirty than I'd like to admit.

I've been particularly busy with school of late - things are about to level out I hope.

as part of my Survey of Sequential Art history course I discuss the effects of film on comics and vice versa. That discussion includes this image of non-animated films that were based on comic books or comic strips. Kristie put this together for me, she found all the images and everything. See if you can recognize them all...

The Jenkins' Lawn

I haven't done very much in the way of postable work - so here is something from my sketchbook.



I'm still working on my History Class - which has all but destroyed me.

I hope to finish the script on my next gobnobble story and then get to work drawing it so I can really start to write the Morris Moonshine Murder story.

Adventures on Turkey Creek.

Thank so much to everyone who has expressed their concerns for Kristie.
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Here's something for you to look at.

I'm working on drawing a new story before the end of the year - it's another story with the same characters. While I'm drawing that I'm writing a much longer story (I dare not use the phrase 'graphic novel' when I know it's just a comic). It is a much more serious story about a 1950s 'murder' mystery that happened around where I grew up. I took a few days to go back home and try and get some reference and understanding of the area. Much of the trip was about family history, too.

My dad and I wondered the woods and creeks for the better part of a day - I dubbed our quest 'Adventures on Turkey Creek', my mom helped me in the library combing through microfilm, my grandparents cleared me up on a few places that I wasn't quite sure about, Brent (Maze) helped me find a few places, Kristie's grandmother gave me some information on local history (in addition to what my parents already gave me). I am in debt to them all and I am sure I'll be asking for more help later. The research department at the Linn-Henley building in Birmingham helped too.

I present to you a small sampling of the many images taken last week. Nothing too fancy.

Back to Savannah.

I spent the last week in Alabama working on a bit of research for a book I'm going to do next year. (I'll post a bit of that pretty soon).

My trip ended abruptly when I had to come home to see about Kristie who found herself in a wreck. It was pretty rough, but she's fine. My little red truck was on the news.

I thank God Kristie was okay, and that Kevin was able to come take care of her while I made the six and a half hour drive. He also took these pictures. Special thank to Kevin and April.

penny dreadfuls and Anna Paquin

Formulating this history class has got me spread way thin. Not to mention about 30 books spread about our living room. PLUS we have to go home this weekend - which means I might as well just give up.

...and why do like Almost Famous so much, huh?

Go Outside! - again.

I'm having issues with my scad web space. Grrr... So here are the 3 pages that may or may not have shown up for you on the previous post...

A new short - Go Outside.

As a theme for a mini-comic my grad class chose 'Big Animals and Small Kids - or Big Kids and Small Animals.'

This is my contribution.

San Diego - after the fact.

I realize it's a bit late (a week and a half) to be posting ComicCon stuff, but with other mess going on I'm doing good to be awake. Developing the eLearning course for scad is killing me - it just takes too long. Not to mention the round of malaria I suffered through last week - or the aweful trip home (being stuck overnight in texas) - I am officially boycotting American Airlines.
Enough complaining. The convention was good this year profession-wise, so that's good.


The day before the convention we went over to the Hotel del Coronado.






We walked over to the beach as well. I think it was more like we went to the beach and walked over to the hotel.







I noticed a feeble attempt to get grass to grow. I thought it was cute. Our grass grows faster here in Savannah than we can cut it.




Just as last year, we rode the trolly back and forth - just a little further this year. I have decided that San Diego is not for me. I don't like the town that much. I like San Francisco much more. Diego's a little too surfy and beachbummy.




Imagine this line of people times about 30 - then wrap it around the convention center, in the unusually hot and sweaty air. This is the line for those who didn't pre-register. 2 hour wait? 3?





This Bane goober was everywhere I looked. I saw him everyday.




It was great seeing people that I hadn't seen in a while, plus getting to meet lots of new folks. I always enjoy looking at all the cool comics artists out there. I must admit it's mostly nice to not be there for the same things 90% of attendees are. There's never a line to see the people I want to see and everyone wants to talk and likes seeing work and mini-comics.
My favorite finds this year? The Sam and Max sketchbook by Steve Purcell and a cool book from First Second - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang.

I start a new story this week.