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 […]
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.
Five Exercises in Style: a Student Video Project
Five short videos from Spain inspired by my 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.
Jessica and I Talk about Our Lives and Work on Swedish TV
A professionally-produced video of me and Jessica being interviewed by Fredrik Strömberg during the Stockholm International Comics Festival
20 Lines Exhibit in Barcelona
A report from my first solo drawing exhibit in Barcelona in 2015;
Bridge: a “24+7 hour comic”
At the end of January I hosted and participated in the seventh annual 24-hour Comics Day event at la maison des auteurs. I didn’t finish the whole comic in 24 hours—I only got to page 16—so I devoted another seven hour day to finishing the remaining eight pages. You can learn a bit about it […]