MP3 Saturday: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Rerun)

The season of Advent starts tomorrow and so that makes it also the eve of the new year according to the Christian calendar.

Here's my standby seasonal song that I usually post this time of year. I don't know why I tend to go for Gregorian songs around this time year, …

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The Reign of Christ

The Last Judgment, Hieronymous Bosch, c1500 oil on panel

'When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a …

Class is over- A few notes about what I've learned

I was a little intimidated about taking my first Grad level course at UIUC, this fall. It started off with some really difficult readings and I felt a little shaky on the first paper. Slowly, I warmed up to the class and it began to affirm some of my teaching …

Little Vampire Does Kung Fu!

I picked up Joann Sfar's Little Vampire Does Kung Fu! from the library a few weeks back and was instantly delighted. It reminded me of stories my brother and I would have made up in grade school

The drawings are very dense and full of little details that makes you …

MP3 Saturday: Reruns

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New Brand Spanking Relaunched Site Built From Scratch!

I've rebuild the entire site from scratch. Hope you enjoy the new look and please inform me of any bugs.

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MP3 Saturday: Reruns

This week MP3 Saturday begins a series of reruns while I work on new material/polish recent stuff for an EP I'd like to put out next spring.

A few business things first:

If you've got a copy of four track wonderland, would you be so kind as to go over to iTunes and rate …

More from the (Temporarily) Abandonded Altered Book Project

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Twanz-foam-uz

I'm not supposed to have favorite students, but I've been keeping an eye on H ever since he declared a few years ago, in the midst of a Kindergarten class, that he . . . he would be . . . an art superhero!

Ever since, H has been bringing me little scraps that he has …

Family Crest

After reading about DaVinci, my fifth grade classes made a family crest similar to the crests that would have been seen in the time of DaVinci.






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Help young comic book artists get their start!

Help young comic book artists get their start!
Help young comic book artists get their start!

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MP3 Saturday: Gamma Ray Valentine

I've been writing these campy little songs inspired by mid-century Marvel comic books. Maybe I'll make a little EP of them and invoke another fake band called the Kirby Dots.

Anyhoo- here's a little sketch from one of them. We'll be back in "re-runs" starting next …

My Life in Records- Chapter 2 pgs 26-29

Three days late and short of color. There's three more pages to complete for this chapter, so I think I'll try to wrap it all up next month with 7 full color pages!

Update on "Abstract Comics: The Anthology"

As I've mentioned before, my work is being included in the book, "Abstract Comics: The Anthology". The release date has been set for May 28, 2009 (also my wedding anniversary!)

You can now pre-order it from Amazon for $26.39.

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Donate To Help Young Independant Comic Makers Get Started

I have developed an after school club that will meet next spring once a week where students can come and hone their storytelling skills and eventually publish their own books with full color screen printed covers and xeroxed interior pages.

However, there is very little …

MP3 Saturday: Halloween Edition

Today is Halloween, so I thought I'd give you MP3 Saturday a day early, since I have a song about a werewolf and a blues version of Thriller.

I bought the above picture from the talented Les McClaine. I hope it comes in the mail soon.

Mr. Wolfman (download)


Thriller (