I just came back from an excellent Lettering Workshop with Laura Di Piazza at the Center for Cartoon Studies. The best part was learning to use a COLA PEN (often made by folding a piece of a Coke can!) I loved the loose, scratchy, messy freedom. The faster and harder you press, the more splatters...
Visiting Artist today was Dean Haspiel - a very amusing and multi-talented comic book artist. His work runs the gamut from TMNT/super cute - to dark, brooding superheros....
The graphic medicine class with the Dartmouth Medical students is turning into a really fun event. The students, and the teachers, are getting into the swing of creating comics - its very impressive! The class is even planning an Anthology. I can't even wrap my head around that right now - all I can think...
Visiting Artist this week was editorial cartoonist Ken Fisher who draws cartoons under the name Ruben Bolling. His recent popular comics are "Donald and John" a (Trump) spoof of Calvin and Hobbes and Tom the Dancing Bug. He was very funny and teamed up with our fearless leader, Luke Howard, to "act...
Lots of classes and note-taking last week! The second session of the Dartmouth Medical School - Graphic Medicine class was very entertaining! We did a group prompt where each group was given a slip of paper with a description... ours was "Dorothy, Tinman, Scarecrow, and the Lion playing strip poker." We then had...
Our Visiting Artist this week was Nick Drnaso. As you can see... ... my sketch notes are not up to my usual standards. (blush) I was multi-tasking, working on another project. Actually, I suck at multi-tasking. So I asked Kurt Shaffert if I could borrow his notes to share with you (he said "...
