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Mobile Gear 2016

The iPad Pro Has Changed My Mobile Life

I’m never going to buy another laptop again. The iPad Pro is the mobile computer I’ve been looking for my whole life. It’s changed my mobile creation kit in a big way. Back in August 2015, I wrote about the tools I use on the go. Since the iPad Pro replaces a good...

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Batman fan art by Max Riffner

I Don’t Hate Mainstream Comics

Something that sticks in my craw is the idea that I hate mainstream comics. Let me back up. I have an indy comic pedigree. I have an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies. I won the Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini Comics. Fantagraphics has released my work. I...

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Farting Ghosts are Funny

Is This Funny?

A funny thing happened last week. It's been quiet here on the blog. I'm slogging my way through drawing The Walk. And I have been slogging my way through a new post about how I'm producing the art for the book (you can read part 1 and part 2 of that particular...

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Speed Is Simple

Speed Is Simple

Speed. It seems like that’s all I’ve been thinking about lately. In the early days of the web, the Internet was slow. If you're old enough to remember, the web moved through the phone lines. They were never designed to send much data. Just the electronic transmission...

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Winsor McCay

Making A Living To Support Your Comics

Working full time as a cartoonist is a wonderful dream. Some people get a chance to do it. But it’s a hard life. As a successful cartoonist told me once, “sometimes I make $100,000 a year, and sometimes I make $10,000. You just never know.” And that’s a successful...

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Everyone is Creative

Everyone is Creative

I wrote another post for the B² Interactive blog, this time about a subject that is near and dear to my heart: creativity. Most people in any organization feel like they cannot possibly be creative or contribute to a creative project in a meaningful way. I'm here to...

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Mobile Webcomics

The Sorry State of Mobile Webcomics

We live in a world where we carry around a tiny, powerful computer in our pocket. That it makes phone calls is almost secondary. We interact with the digital world with our mobile devices. Over half of all web traffic is now from a mobile web browser. So it is with...

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