An update: Talks of future past
I’ve got roughly a month left of my summer (yay quarter system!), and it’s been a wild ride so far. I’ve given talks in Germany, Québec City, and Seattle, and […]
“Bad anatomy” and body objectification in comics
Greg Land cover and redrawn version from www.themarysue.com The recent uproar over the covers of Spider-Woman books by Marvel has lead to cries that they are both sexist and poorly […]
Violating your drawings!
Here’s a fun blog post by Chris Schweizer on spotting “compositional tangents” while drawing comics. For those unfamiliar, Chris does the excellent “Crogan’s Adventures” series (Crogan’s Loyalty, Crogan’s March, and Crogan’s Vengence) which […]
Visual style and visual morphology
While I was on the University of Bremen campus in Germany last month, I stumbled on a very appropriate poster hanging in the linguistics department (right) which sponsors a nice […]
Page layouts with the Golden Ratio
I was recently sent a link to this blog post from back in May that discusses the “Golden Ratio” in the creation of comic pages by Bizhan Khodabandeh. He has some […]