Comics with
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My personal collection of publishing industry insights, short
comics, art demos, and free coloring pages.
Gastronomy Chart
This one-shot editorial illustration represents mashups of foods that I personally enjoy and celestial bodies. I wanted to make a large print for sale in-person at conventions. Someday, I may open an online shop as well, but for now this exists as an exercise in creating a compelling illustration out of lots of fiddly bits.
Terminal: My New Graphic Novel Pitch
Making a New Graphic Novel Pitch: Terminal!After attending a comics event via SCBWI, I realized that my fantasy graphic novel Warlock’d was better off self-published. If I self-publish Warlock'd, I could teach myself how to make a graphic novel without the threat of...
Afterlife
The Composition that Social Media Made This piece didn't start out as a reflection of some unrelated personal stuff that happened to me lately. It was defined via a Twitter poll where voters decided I was going to draw yi qi dinosaurs next to a stream and color them...
Our Little Editors: A Paw-fully Good Zine About Pets
Our Little Editors Zine: Out Now!My contribution to this pet zine is based off, of course, a medieval illumination. I swapped in my own cat for the striped white creature in the original, and expanded the floral treatment into some typography hanging overhead....
Beenix: A Free Home-Brew Dungeons and Dragons Monster
When I first approached Adam Ma about designing mechanics for the Beenix Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) monster, I had artwork and a jumbled text document full of features that blended phoenixes and bees.
Biscuit Mountain
This is a personal diary comic about one of many bike rides to this awesome breakfast place. Every time we go to this restaurant, my partner Devin claims he will not order the Biscuit Mountain. Every time we go, Devin orders the Biscuit Mountain. The denial is part of...
On the Care and Feeding of Teleoceras
On the Care and Feeding of TeleocerasHello, new pet owner! Teleoceras is a miniature breed of rhinocerous with a big personality. If you’ve never owned one before, they can be a handful. Multiple handfuls. Many many handfuls. DietAlfalfa kibble and hay are mainstays...
UX Testing on Comics with a Target Audience
My goal with RAWR! Dinosaur Friends is to create informational fiction that doesn't feel like a lecture. I want my readers to feel curious about the world. Not only that, I want them to feel equipped to explore that curiosity. In generally I'd really love to make...
Purposeful Tangents with Derek Ballard
What is a Tangent?In visual art terms, a tangent is any area in a drawing where elements of the composition are interacting in a confusing or illusion-destroying manner. Cartoonists who use linework are particularly suspect to tangents, although tangents plague...
A Dungeon of Little Dragons
‘Fieschi Psalter’, Cambrai ca. 1290-1295.Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, Walters Manuscript W.45, fol. 256v Fox DragonReynard? Is that you? You look a little different. A little foxier than normal. Please don't tell me you're the harbinger of the Revelation. What...
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