A comic strip is more than just a consumable art-product. It’s your love letter to comics and everything you’ve ever read or loved that got you to where you are. As often as you can, whenever you can, fill your comic strip with angels, not demons. If it’s not fun to draw and doesn’t make […]

The best things that happen in Art are between the creator and the art piece. When things go well it can feel like falling in love or finding something beautiful in nature. That bond that the artist creates with the work is an experience that only that artist can feel. In the art world, there’s […]

For the past year or so I’ve been drawing “Watson” on regular typing-paper, i.e. “computer” paper. For decades, I used to draw everything on fancy paper from the art store, but as I’ve gotten better at drawing the strip I’ve found that typing-paper works just as well. About a week ago I bought a new […]

1. Don’t pencil what you can ink. 2. Leave space for the reader’s imagination. 3. Use details sparingly. 4. Move the reader’s eye through the strip. 5. More than one absurd leap in a gag is too many.

An interesting idea that I’ll never stop meditating upon, or twisting around like a Rubik’s cube, is the idea that when you see a comic strip you’re not just seeing the artist’s work, but you’re actually getting a print-out of the cartoonist’s philosophy on what a comic strip is. – THIS is how I think […]