Comic book algebra and personal histories
Every comic book professional (with a few exceptions) started out as a fan with some talent and some dreams. If they put in their time, did the 10,000 drawings, and get a little bit lucky, those dreams can come true. Years ago, I came up with a little game I call: Comic Book Algebra Read More …
For a few years we had a great little pub in downtown Point Arena called 215 Main. It always had music. I hosted the Wednesday night Open Mike until just before it closed. There were always acts stopping by on Tuesday & Thursday nights that were on their way to bigger gigs in San Francisco, Read More …
Everyone thinks of me as “The Color Guy,” but I also draw. And, surprise, surprise, I love Black & White. Over the years I’ve done a lot of local T-shirt designs. For the last 10 years I’ve done the designs for John & Tracy DuPont’s “Blues on the Coast” shirts here in Point Arena. Every Read More …
Two of the guys I met at my first San Diego Comic-Con were Gary Winnick & Frank Cirocco. (In the lobby of the El Cortez Hotel, along with Brent Anderson & Tony Salmons…) They were a pair of South Bay (South of San Francisco, that is…) artists who produced a really cool fanzine called Venture. Read More …
In the ‘60s comic book color was 64-color big dot flat. It was hand-separated low resolution CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black.) printed on newsprint. It had to be low resolution because the ink would spread as soon as it went on to the cheap newsprint paper comics were printed on at the time. It was Read More …
Before I became a professional comic book colorist, I was a commercial artist. I did posters, T-shirts, painted signs and trucks, illustrated role-playing games, and anything else I could do to pay the rent. But even after I began my comic book career, over the years I’ve gotten some interesting side jobs. This one was Read More …
Sometimes as a fan, you have to go a long way to attend conventions. Take San Diego, for instance, which is a long way from anywhere that isn’t in Southern California. But once in a while, a convention drops into your back yard. The first comic convention I went to was Cotati-Con #1 (Which turned Read More …
Comic book algebra and personal histories… Every comic book professional has a story of how they got into the business. I broke it down into an equation and a game I call: COMIC BOOK ALGEBRA It goes like this: Your First Comic Book + Some Major Influence = Read More …
