June

If you follow my work, you might know that I tend to produce several drafts of a project, letting a few months pass between each draft so that I can see the piece with fresh eyes. An unremarkable act in prose writing, I think, but a little unusual for comics. I think this approach works […]

May

Lynda Barry’s Syllabus, which excerpts her notebooks with a focus on her teaching, instructs students to draw “electric spirals.” Begin with a single point, she explains, and slowly draw a spiral around it. “If the lines touch, you die.” It’s hard to do well, and even harder if you’re impatient like me. But if you […]