When I was in graduate school for Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College, the close of each semester required a reflection on the program’s five degree criteria. We were to use the criteria as lenses through which to see and discuss our semester activity. When considered with adequate understanding, the criteria helped foster creative work thatContinue reading “Ongoing Creative Growth: Goddard’s Interdisciplinary Degree Criteria”
Category Archives: Meanderings
Influences: comics part 4
The final of four installments on my favorite print-based visual storytelling work, where I provide choice images and cleaned-up notes on why I love these works so much. In this post: Jeff Smith’s Bone.
Influences: comics, part 3
The third of four installments on my favorite print-based visual storytelling work, where I provide choice images and cleaned-up notes on why I love these works so much. In this post: 1980’s-era Legend of Zelda.
Influences: comics, part 2
The second of four installments on my favorite print-based visual storytelling work, where I provide choice images and cleaned-up notes on why I love these works so much. In this post: Muth and DeMatteis’s Moonshadow.
Influences: comics, top 3… +1
The first of four installments on my favorite print-based visual storytelling work, where I provide choice images and cleaned-up notes on why I love these works so much. In this post: My story, and Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes.
lewburn: a zine about Lewiston Auburn, Maine
I’m excited to share a recent indie publication I was part of with some artist and musician friends in the Lewiston Auburn, Maine area. It’s a quarterly zine we’re calling lewburn that will document the old neighboring mill cities through the lenses of art and music. This first issue is a summer retrospective focused on cultivation. TakeContinue reading “lewburn: a zine about Lewiston Auburn, Maine”
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watterson, crumb, and conversations of 1
This comics essay recaps reflections I made during my graduate program about cartoonists and audience, including an unexpected connection between cartoonists I had never held in the same light. I chose a straightforward layout, partly to account for the essay format’s consistent narration, but also as an additional reference to the work of R. Crumb.Continue reading “watterson, crumb, and conversations of 1”
wattersmith part 3: comparing watterson and smith
To add one more layer of reflection to my environmental recreations from Bill Watterson and Jeff Smith, I attempted a Calvin & Hobbes drawing in a Bone-like style and vice versa. This really helped bring to light the physical and psychological differences when drawing from each artist. Read on for reflections on the work.
wattersmith part 2: reflections on drawing jeff smith
Next in my reflections on drawing environments in the working style of some of my favorite cartoonists: Jeff Smith and his classic Bone. (Read my Bill Watterson reflections in case you missed them.) JEFF SMITH, BONE Tools and Process (gleaned from an interview of Jeff Smith by Sardinian Connection) Really loose or sparse penciling, moreContinue reading “wattersmith part 2: reflections on drawing jeff smith”
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