I highly doubt any artists are going to agree with me on this, but I don't think for one minute that Before Watchmen is the worst thing ever, nor do I think that anyone is actually getting screwed by it.

( I have my reasons )

Sunday morning, shortly after I posted the last conversation, Thomas J. Foster replied one more time. The tone of the e-mail was civil and thoughtful and lacked the beautiful, colorful language of his earlier missives. In it, to his credit, he takes the time to acknowledge the source of my ill will. But let’s let him speak for himself. Here you go ( Read more... )

My readers (both of them) might recall that, on Wednesday, I wrote a journal entry recounting my experiences with Third Party Politics, publisher of The Book of Jesse. I had thought that to be the last word on the subject. I was wrong.

Thursday, my friend (who is not my wife), Donna, discovered this blog post at the Bleeding Cool Comic News website ( Read more... )

We now interrupt Three Stories in One Week to bring you a dilemma.

On January 1, 2004, an artist-wanted poster I'd answered in September returned to me, and within a couple of days, I met Thomas Foster and Ron Morgan, co-writers of a comic they were itching to produce. We had a few beers, and a few laughs and looked at my portfolio. I wasn't ( Read more... )

i used to do a webcomic, and it blew. that's a slight exaggeration, but it wasn't nearly as funny and subversive as the writers thought it was. i did it because i needed the experience, and hopefully the exposure. it became apparent pretty quickly that this wasn't a good fit.

for starters, i'm not much of an action artist - i wish i was, because ( Read more... )