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Belgium Bound
I'm currently taking commissions and drawing pieces for the October FACTS convention in Ghent, Belgium. They love The Simpsons in...
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2023 So Far
I've been drawin' stuff. Mostly my usual subjects: EC Comics inspired aliens and sci-fi, monsters, etc... All inked with a brush on...
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Sir Hilary and Prince Valiant
A number of years ago Gary Gianni asked me to help him on the Prince Valiant strip. Gary was working on a side project or two, and felt...
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Squa Tront! Spafon Wood!
Like most kids growing up in the 1960s, I liked monster and sci-fi movies. But the primary inspiration for the aliens and space-men I...
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The Shadows Know
When adding shadows to your drawings, always go with what's graphically right. Forget tepid, anemic notions of "realism". Save that for...
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Cartooning During COVID
The life of a cartoonist is often a solitary one, especially if one works at home. So quaranting last year wasn't that much of a change...
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The Dreaded Deadline Doom
The bane of every commercial artist is the deadline. Blow a deadline, and you might not get another job from that editor or art director....
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Infected by Barta
I have many friends who are comic book artists and illustrators. From time to time some of them have asked me to pose for them. Artists...
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Drunk and Drawn
Comic Art Live's DRINK & DRAW event was a lot of fun. I got to hang with a bunch of talented artsts, including Dan Brereton, Jim...
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A Brush With Destiny
Many years ago Canadian artist George Freeman was visiting Chicago, and somehow he ended up in my apartment. Possibly for one of the wild...
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That Time I Inked Art Adams, Part 2
This is a follow-up post on the creation of the ABC Sketchbook cover and poster. Chris Sprouse was the first artist to pencil and ink...
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That Time I Inked Art Adams
One of the best gigs I ever had was drawing Splash Brannigan for Alan Moore's line of comics, ABC. Splash was both a descendent of Jack...
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March of Robots!
You know what they say: "March comes in like a robot and goes out like a different robot." Wait--that's not right. I did this drawing for...
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Surly and Sticky
I'm developing a set of stickers that I'll eventually make available on this site. It will be a collection of monsters, aliens, weirdos...
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Make Mine Marvel...Again
I've been doing this art thing for quite a while. I started in comics as an inker way back in the 1980s, and somehow got my first job at...
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