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First, I have a new book available for preorder — Spring Tides is a 248 page, beautifully designed publication from Glacier Bay Books. Printed in a pantone dark blue! A bellyband! I’m really thrilled! You can order it now via Kickstarter, the campaign is ongoing as of this writing, with my book available alongside two […]

I’m getting close or at least closer. I’ve drawn a few more pages, made a few more edits, and sent a draft of this comic to several friends. So waiting to hear back from those trusted readers (thank you!) seems like a natural time to pause. At least for now. Ironically, people seem to like […]

I’ve done sixteen pages of new drawings, mostly easy and straightforward – sloppy drawings that needed improvement, etc. But a handful of new pages too, that I hope begin to push this project in the right direction. A common pattern when I’m revising work is that I tighten up, perhaps too much. In the first […]

Last fall I enjoyed documenting my progress here as I revised and eventually completed a draft of a long comic. I’m looking at that draft again, and as usual I can now clearly see that some parts are good and other parts still need significant work. So I thought I’d do a bit more writing […]

When I started Yearly in 2018 I wrote a few paragraphs about the project and its goals. Those goals have not changed but they’ve shifted and developed slightly. That seems worth capturing in writing. It’s been on my mind. So: Yearly is a “one-person anthology” that I publish every year and that I plan to […]

Just a quick note to say that a number of recent comics are newly available as digital editions. You can see them here. People are also still occasionally finding my digital comics on Gumroad so I figured I’d update that as well. What else am I working on? I ask myself this most days, trying […]

I have two long, newish pieces of work online for you to read. I just finished Under False Pretenses, a project that adapts twelve books or stories by Italian novelist Italo Calvino into something that perhaps resembles a biography. Around the same time last year, I finished Ghosts, a piece of fiction about family and […]

I was traveling for a week and then had covid for a week, so it was a struggle to squeeze out the last two pages that I had decided (before that interruption) were necessary to make this draft complete. One of them is pictured above, without text. I’d lost my excitement and confidence in this […]

An obvious but essential element of concentrated work on a single project is how your subconscious mind begins to suggest ideas. It’s rare but really nice when it does happen. Just a page, a scene, a phrase here and there. A true reward for staying focused. I’m reaching about two months of work on this […]

I’m getting there. I have a draft done, approx 130 colored and lettered pages, and I’m trying to settle my mind as I write this. A quiet mind, as I said before. I don’t need to maintain this state for long, as little as 30 minutes or certainly an hour can be enough to get […]