comics and graphic novel
November 25, 2009
July 8, 2009
- By Monday, I had worked well and had a surfeit of seventeen 3rd Blade strips, meaning I could devote the next month to the Sixsmiths. A month should be enough to get me within shouting distance of the finish line. To date I have drawn some 35 pages of the book, and the total will be about 100. I do not know the exact numbers because not all of the scripts have been written yet, and we keep adding ...
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March 22, 2009
- The Christian Science Monitor reports that Art Spiegelman, creator of the legendary comic book Maus, has once again elevated that genre to its proper place in the literary pantheon. Sort of.If you have read my book (thank you), you know that one of my characters is a comic book collector. Oscar detests the title graphic novel and much prefers the title comic book, which he views as a badge of ...
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March 6, 2009
- I have to do it all over again. Kill my great grandfather. A friend tells me I am the reincarnation of Yang Junchen, who died in the middle of the great famine, unleashed by the Great Leap Forward. I came into the world in 1960 on the Island of Taiwan, where food was scanty, but I did not go hungry.I am working on the final chapter of "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale." My ...
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August 22, 2008
- My Review of Mascot to the Rescue! By Peter DavidSubmitted by Karen Haney, August, 2008 At Demarest Elementary School, Kelsey Markus, new to sixth grade, meets Josh Miller in a rather amazing way. She doesn't know at first that Josh has a secret but it doesn't take her long to suspect something! Comic book hero Captain Major's sidekick, Mascot, is really Josh Miller, or so Josh thinks. ...
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June 26, 2008
- I have an open question for anyone who wishes to participate, be you comic book creator, fan, or novelist, etc... If you were to open your e-mail inbox one glorious morning and had an invite by (insert editor/publisher here) to do ANYTHING you wanted, it'd be green lit from the get-go. What would it be? Now I have a few, and not just the people you THINK would be on my list... No, on the DC side ...
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June 24, 2008
- So I have returned from Heroes Con 2008 and it was really a wonderful time with some highs and lows. Now, the art monkey I was going to ride down with, (Logan Bennett, who is going to be helping me with a lot of these speaking engagements) called me about 5 hours before we had to leave and told me he had to work Friday.. I cleaned that up a bit as the orginal Logan rant was chock full of colorful ...
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June 11, 2008
- Been missing your fix of iHero/Cyber Age Adventures stories? Well, years ago we had planned to release a Cyber Age Adventures comic book through Shooting Star Comics -- only it never came to pass, sadly. But now, one of the tales from that lost book, a 12-page comic book short featuring Hiroshima, The Grandstander, and Living Doll has come back from the dead and will be published by Terminus ...
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June 11, 2008
- Paul in Amsterdam, who has his own comics website, asked me questions, which I will answer at the bottom of this post. So, this is what I finshed yesterday, and I want to show you a few tricks. Below, you see I made an error. How do I get rid of it? I use my Xacto knife and scrape away the extraneous lines. Don't dig too hard. Go gently and lightly with the knife or you'll dig a ...
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June 9, 2008
- I continue to work on my graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow: A China Elegy," to be published by WW Norton and Company. I got tired of the talking heads in this section, so I threw the scene of the last panel outdoors with kids playing ball. In this panel, I directed the dialog bubble to the man in the window, one of my great uncles, in conversation with my grandfather on how to make ...
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