Crash! Boom! Bang!

I made this comic a couple years ago. It was for an anthology that never saw print. The idea was that every artist would draw their interpretation of the scene below:

"You are in a dark room when you hear the following series of sounds: chrrt, vreep, plink, skssst, blurgle, ving, frungt, paf, spang, wfft, tchug, tchug, reeeee, ka-tong, wham, smurchle boof, tsss, ting."

No additional sounds or words were allowed. Here's what I came up with.

Wednesday Comics are here!

Today was the day the first Wednesday Comics came out. I sat down to read them and Nathan immediately crawled into my lap to be read to. One of my favorite childhood memories is Mom or Dad reading the Sunday Funnies, and this new weekly comic from DC provides the same kind of weekly serial reading experience. The difference is that they are all adventure stories about Superman, Batman and many other superheroes, including some of the lesser known characters like Kamandi, Metamorpho, and the Metal Men.

It looks like they have some of the very best writers and artists working on this. Some of the art looks very retro -- which makes me happy because I say, "There's no school like the old school."
Wednesday Comics can be found at your nearest comic shop.

ABC Challenge #20: Black Dots

The Art by Committee challenge is a sketch game I play each month. It's sponsored by the Gurney Journey, and I just figured out that this is my 20th challenge. My responses to these challenges have generated 40 pages of comics.

As an experiment, what I've been doing, is trying to make as many of the prompts as I can go into the same story. By jumping around a lot, I can make a lot of them fit. As it turns out, the two pages I made for this month's challenge flows nicely into the very first one I did! Because it makes a nice punchline, I'm reprinting it at the bottom of this post.

Eventually, they'll all appear in an issue of Eclectic Comics.

Anyway, this month's challenge was to interpret this random, out of context line from a science fiction novel:

“But when the dots did not vanish even after he scrubbed his fists across his eyes three times, he shouted hoarsely…”

Here we go!

100 Tips for Teaching with Comics

Someone compiled a massive list for different ways to use comics to teach all kind of things. Some of them I had already been familiar with, but many are new to me. This list is a gold mine!

James Gurney pointed out to me that #11 was a description of his visit to my art room!

If you're interested, check out the list of 100 Tips for Teaching with Comics.

Father's Day Roast Comics - Part 2

It's a little late, but here is Dan's contribution to the Father's Day Comics Roast at the Wales' house. Not only is it funny, but it's actually a pretty realistic portrayal of what it's like when I need his help with computers! He will be a good IT person, because he can patiently explain things to me!

Enter the Obamicon

Everybody remembers the iconic poster created for Obama during the presidential campaign, right? Well, now thanks to a handy online device called the Obamacon, anyone can create images that take an effective design strategy and beat it to death! Hence, my contribution below...

Eclectic Comics Reviewed

There's a site I like to go to for comics reviews called Every Day is Like Wednesday. Caleb Mozzocco reads a lot of comics, and gives his opinions on them. I get a chuckle out of his frank assessments of a lot of the crap that's published, and sometimes he recommends something that sounds like I definitely want to check out.

What I like best is the comics he makes skewering some of the big events in Marvel and DC. Like the one below,

Anyway, I bring all this up to mention that I sent him some preview copies of my comics and he reviewed them here. Check it out!