August 24, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES
I’ve got a comic up today in the New York Times’ Op-Ed page, which you can look at here in a form slightly altered from the original print version. If you’re happening across this site because of that
January 14, 2019
THE YEAR IN MEDIA
I’m always thinking I should blog more—it is after all, what, like 1996? What? 2019? Jesus God Almighty, blogs were 23 years ago. Anyway, I have worked hard over the last couple of months to rebuild my old habit of reading, something I did constantly as a kid and through my twenties, and—as a high school dropout—still the source of whatever small amount of self-education I retain. But social media and the various click-clacking distractions of having a smartphone just utterly destroyed it. So, for 2019, a resolution to do more reading and less clickety-clacking, other than good ol’ blogging.
June 24, 2016
BENIGN KINGDOM 2016
May 17, 2016
TCAF 2016 NEWS AND VIEWS FROM MES TO YOUS
May 20, 2013
ON TCAF AND GINA GAGLIANO AND VALUE
I have fallen out of the habit of writing con reports. They always seem to take a whole day, there’s a million links to go and fiddle with, pictures, all that. I’m too busy lately. But I wanted to say something about TCAF 2013—
March 27, 2013
TELEGRAPH SHOW, IN THE WOODS, PRINTS AHOY
I have been remiss in my blogging, and haven’t mentioned that I was/am part of the inaugural show at brand new Telegraph Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. Besides me (the obvious star), the show also includes upstarts like Michael Deforge, Niv Bavarsky, KC Green, Zack Soto…
January 31, 2013
JANUARY 2013 MORNING DRAWING PROJECT
So, each day of January, I’ve been doing a drawing in the morning, before work and with coffee. I do this anyway most days, but this month I decided to practice watercolors and fiddle with "informal subdivision," an exercise from Andrew Loomis’ book Creative Illustration…
January 23, 2013
INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE
So last night, I finally watched Indie Game: The Movie, a movie a lot of people I know were very excited about. It was the focus of not one but two successful Kickstarter campaigns, has a soundtrack by the brilliant Jim Guthrie, and was talked about by a lot of the people I know…
December 31, 2012
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION :: 2013 I Am Watching You
I always have a lot of New Year’s resolutions—for instance, "less masturbating, both literally and figuratively" is usually in there somewhere. "Don’t be such a dick" also is usually present in some form or other. I like the idea of self-improvement; I think it’s maybe…
December 07, 2012
HANDS ACROSS AMERICA
For the month of November (2012) I did a daily morning drill, drawing at least one hand every day. I got the idea from my friend Ben Towle—what in the world is harder to draw than hands?? I usually draw something every morning anyway…