Month: April 2014
Throwback Thursday – April 10, 2014
Years ago, my friend named his son Augustin Bear, so I made this in his honor.
An early cover design based on Beatles Help! album cover.
my first check from Fantagraphics Books: publisher of the World’s Greatest Cartoonists. (Remember that next time you need to address something to me.)¬†Also . . . my last check from Fantagraphics.
The cover of the first My Life in Records mini comic.
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The Story Behind the Story
Even though the Winter of 2014 was brutally cold here in the Midwest, the Winter of 2013 was much harder for me.
You see, I am not a full time artist.  I am primarily an elementary art teacher and the 2012-2013 school year was one of the most difficult of my career.
I had been teaching art out of a small half-sized room for 8 years when I was asked to empty my room and teach “art-on-a-cart” in the classrooms to make room for a new Kindergarten class that was being added to the building.
I was demoralized. There had been talk of an addition being built onto the school and I was promised a full sized room to replace my tiny quarters.  I had begun gathering resources and dreaming of what I could do in a larger workspace.  Now, with the addition two years off, I was left with no classroom at all.
Kissing Sketch
My newest story I’m working on requires me to draw some people kissing, so here’s a practice sketch from a movie screencap.
Sketch Dailies Roundup
With work on my latest comic wrapping up, I’ve been participating in Sketch Dailies this past week while I wait for the comic book muse to strike again. ¬†Here are the images I’ve created this week. ¬†Also, be sure to follow me on my newly minted Instagram account.
Throwback Thursday April 3, 2014
Close up of the final page
Close up of the final page of How the Raven and the Loon Got Their Colors.  You can read the entire story here.
