I started blogging again in 2024 but I combined it with my mailing list and I’ve been posting everything over on Substack.
Silent Running: an exercise in “iconic restriction”
This is an experiment Tom Hart, Jason Little and I developed for the oubapo-america website back in 2002. The idea was to create four ambiguous, generic panels and make them available for use as kind of clip-art comics panels. We encouraged people to print out as many copies as they wanted and recombine them, add […]
Ex Libris: final cover design!
The final cover of my upcoming comic, Ex Libris, coming out in October from Uncivilized Books
Bridge: behind the scenes
Bridge: a story that began its life as a 24 hour comic in France in 2013. I have a new short story out in the “mini kuš!” series of minicomics from the discerning Latvian publisher Kuš!. It’s called Bridge and it has an interesting backstory I’d like to share with you here. 24 heures de la bande dessinée, 2013 […]
ESCAPE: A one page sneak peek of my new book, Ex Libris
Here’s a little teaser for Ex Libris in the form of a single-page “comic-within-a-comic” followed by some notes about the circuitous route this comic took before ending up in my book
Notes from the Labyrinth, report #1: Jason Robinson’s One-Two Punch
Notes from the Labyrinth series I’ve been telling myself and my students that I’m going to write a blog post about the amazing work they’ve done and the rewarding conversations we’ve had in my last two Build Your Own Labyrinth constraint workshops but I find that there’s more than I could possibly cover in a […]
La Cigüeña: notes on a comic
A behind-the-scenes look at my comic, La Cigüeña (2011).
99 More Potential Exercises in Style
What if I were to draw 99 more exercises in style? I’m not planning to, but here’s a list of potential (and in some cases improbable if not impossible) candidates for a hypothetical second batch.
99 Ways to Read a Book
Check out my new interview about books and reading at The Reading Lists.
The Ambient Influence of Art Exhibit Posters
One of the most gratifying things about the exhibit I had of my 20 Lines drawings a few years ago was the chance to have my very own art exhibit poster. Imagining it hanging on strangers’ walls inspired me to write this short essay on the role posters play in our lives.