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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)


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The Wolf of Gubbio

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MP3 Saturday: Ode to the Concept Album (reprise)

This week is the 5th Anniversary of The Walter Boyd Band's seminal release, Mauritius, so here's another goodie that didn't quite get polished in time to mae it on to the album. (Though its plenty polished now!)

Ode to the Concept Album (reprise) (download)

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I'm Back From the Next Panel Independent Comics Expo

I''m too tired to write up a real post about the Next Panel Independent Comics Expo yet, but I'll give you a quick re-cap.

• I shared a table with Dan Hill from The Fifty Flip Experiment (pictured above on the right)- hilarious comics.
• On the other side was Paul Sloboda of

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I'll be over at The Next Panel Independent Comics Expo on Friday and Saturday peddling my wares.

The Expo is in conjunction with Krannert Art Museum's Out of Sequence show feature the work of Allison Bechtel, Hope Larson, Andrei Molotiu and many others.

I'm releasing the …

Wormdye #2 by Eamon Espey

Two weeks ago I sauntered over to Bodega and bought some mini-comics that I've been meaning to check out. The first one I read, was Eamon Espey's Wormdye #2, which was mentioned over at Size Matters.

I have to admit that I'm a black and white comic snob. If the …

Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi

I checked out Seiichi Hayashi's Red Colored Elegy from the new book shelf at the public library. While I found the book to be interesting on a visual level, most of the book is told by not telling, and I think I am missing a lot by not being Japanese or knowing much …

Turtle Island Sculptures

Last year I did brief unit on Northeastern Native American tribes with my fifth grade classes.

One of the more successful lessons I taught was one about the Native American concept of Turtle Island. I briefly described the Iroquois creation myth and gave each student a …