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Archive for March, 2010

Before The Cookie Crumbles

No, I wasn’t always the crusty curmudgeon you all know today. Back in the dark ages, I had less crust.
These kids are all probably well-adjusted and normal now, hardly scarred in the least by their brush with greatness.
Clipped from the Sarnia Observer, c. 1985. Now, I can throw the darn thing away.

March 30th, 2010
Topic: events, found, media, personal

Monday Indispensable

Three different brush pens. From bottom to top: The Pentel Aquash Waterbrush (intended for use with the Aquash Watercolor Crayon), the Akashiya Bamboo Barrel Brush Pen and the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen for Calligraphy.
So Stuart, which is your favourite?
“The clear one consistently works the best. It gives you a clean traditional ink line and you [...]

March 29th, 2010
Topic: indispensible

Dick Giordano 1932 - 2010

Though I never met him, I had the pleasure of working with Dick Giordano in the mid-90s on a short King Faraday/ Sarge Steel story for DC’s SHOWCASE series. He took my still-developing pencils, and lent them effortless flair, appropriate to the subject matter,the characters and the era from whence they originated. Dick was intimately [...]

March 27th, 2010
Topic: comics, industry, personal, technique