I sketched this character during the teen Manga workshop in Manchester. (Thanks to Andy Wales for the lesson concept, which I tweaked to fit into a Manga Workshop!)

The eyes come from Tite Kubo’s Bleach, and I’m really glad I came across that style of eye when I did!

The mouth comes from Fruits Basket, and I wasn’t really sure what would happen when I combined that mouth with those eyes. Continue Reading »

Here’s my big secret project from last week… the first edition of the Hopkinton Independent School Songbook! This project collects the lyrics of 56 favorite songs from our school’s upper grades music program. Families and students can use the book to learn the songs over the summer, and each year we plan to add more songs and features to the book.

(At some point, you’ll be able to download a PDF of the songbook from the HIS website…)

Back at work on the Nicaragua Travel Journal:
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I am now almost fully recovered from the nasty cold that laid me right up after MoCCA… and I can look back fondly upon the week-old memories of that strange weekend…

MoCCA 2009 took place at the 26th street Armory:

Yikes! Whenever I left my table to go outside and walk down the skyscraper canyon of Lexington Avenue, I had the strange sensation that the Armory was one of the only places in the world that could make downtown Manhattan feel like the Great Outdoors! Continue Reading »

Come on by MoCCA Art Festival this weekend; I’m at TABLE 212! WOW! I can’t believe the SIZE of that ARMORY HALL!
[Official Floor Map] [Map to MoCCA's Armory]
I’ll have Mimi’s Doughnuts #18 and the new Xeric book, Breakfast at Mimi’s!
Who else is going? What’s your table number? I can’t wait! See you there…

I included a special feature in the new Mimi’s Doughnuts Zine #18 — a collaboration between myself (age 34, words) and a young Marek Bennett (age 5, pictures). It’s called, “Attack, My Spaceships!”

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Spring-Summer, 2009

40 pages
7″ x 8.5″
$4.00 (+ $1.00 shipping)
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Here’s a quick little animation I made with the encouragement of Lori from the GMPDC. It’s called “Face Eats Itself”:

[Click to view!]

We were hanging out after my Comics Workshop for Teachers, and they had these cool tablet PCs with Animationish software on them. I think the whole thing took about 15 minutes to create. Watch for a full-length motion picture due out in Summer, 2049 (with graphic novel tie-ins, of course!)…

7.44″x9.69″ 168 pages, perfect bound black & white + full-color cover ISBN#978-0-9824153-0-6 $12.00 (+$2.38 shipping)

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Here’s a sample image of the working cover for my Xeric book, Breakfast at Mimi’s:

The final cover (and the book inside) will debut at MoCCA ArtFest in New York in June!