Tour Report - Wayward Travelers 2025
For reasons that should be obvious, I cancelled a couple of planned promotional appearances in the U.S. for this year, and decided to replace them with a driving tour across eastern Canada. It began with an invitation to appear at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival, with the idea that simply getting there would take me through a lot of other cities with many supportive bookshops and comics stores. With the help of Erika Medina, my excellent publicist at Raincoast Books (who ar
Sep 15
Drawing From Life
I'm fond of saying that drawing skills aren't particularly necessary for making comics. It's a narrative medium, not an illustrative one the traditional sense. Some of its best practitioners draw simply, even crudely, but are so skilled at organizing and conveying information that it hardly matters. That's the job. I myself give a lecture occasionally titled "WHAT to Draw, Not HOW to Draw."
That said, drawing skills are certainly a nice bonus...
Jul 21
Historical "Accuracy"
Note: this post is a lightly edited and updated version of one that appeared in November 2020 on my perpetually neglected Two Generals Research Blog, which hasn't been updated in more than four years.
Jun 18
