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  • New Essay: Time Frames… Or Not

    Wow, its been a really long time since I last posted a new downloadable essay. Well, if you’ve been anxiously awaiting one, today is your lucky day! I’ve just posted my latest theoretical offering, “Time Frames… Or Not,” where I tackle the assumptions that lead to the (false) belief that successive panels equal moments in…

  • Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class

    As long as I’m doing politically oriented posts, I’ve been meaning for a while to plug Thom Hartmann’s new book Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class — And What We Can Do About It. Thom is, of course, the author of the political book I illustrated We the People: A Call to Take…

  • The Power of Nightmares

    For anyone that is interested in the state of the world today related to American politics and terrorism, I highly recommend watching this BBC documentary on the concurrent rise of the neo-conservative movement and Islamic terrorism over the past fifty years. The documentary is downloadable in three parts and is rather long (one hour per…

  • “Comics” is not a medium, nor a mode of expression

    Academic Henry Jenkins has a couple outtakes from his book where he discuses “comics” as being a mode of expression rather than a medium, working off the McCloudian definition of “comics” as being equal to “sequential images with/without text.” Though I frequently hear statements of faith in McCloud’s definition and the propagation of it. However,…

  • ¡Journalista! returns and school is around the corner

    Huzzah, ¡Journalista! is back online! I’d almost forgotten how amazing Dirk’s breadth in blogging is. Go read and bookmark! Lots of pre-school preparation has been going on. Yesterday I very excitedly got the keys to the office that I share with several other psychology grad students. Quite fun to get an office that’s not my…

  • Comic Book Innovation

    I’ve been meaning to post a link to this site for awhile, but am now finally getting around to it… Comic Book Innovation is an interesting yet sparsely updated theory-based blog with a couple different comic projects on it. I originally found his site because of his adaption of McCloud’s Big Triangle. He seems to…

  • A new Home Sweet Home

    After a loooooong drive from Chicago to Massachusetts, I am now finally settling in to my new apartment in Somerville, eagerly awaiting the start of school. My place is still littered with boxes and whatnot, but at least my computer is up and running enough to get some work done. In the scant amount of…

  • Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work

    It’s been interesting to see the explosion of blog entries about Joel Johnson’s buying of Wally Wood’s 22 Panels that always work. One part of me is a bit dismayed at the news, since a few months ago I actually contacted the seller contemplating buying it myself. I’m extremely greatful that with his new buy…

  • Self-Portrait

    Amongst the chaos of packing and getting all my loose ends tied up here in Chicago before my move to Boston this week, I was able to find the time to knock out the oh-sio-rare-from-me colored piece. Here’s a fun self-portrait that I finished recently: It was originally for a panel in a work in…

  • Neil vs. The Giant

    Here’s a random post that relates to my life outside of comics/visual language (gasp!) that I thought is too cool not to post. A friend of mine has been posting some of our Soo Bahk Do martial art tournament matches online lately. This is a sparring match from the 2004 Nationals Team competition of me…