Today was gorgeous in the Portland area, and a group of us went out to Multnomah Falls to hike up to the top. We would have done that anyway, but this also met a Cub Scout hike requirement for our tiny Tiger Den. And all the siblings got pulled along too because it was a [...]

A lot of digital comics projects were announced yesterday from DC, and in there was the news that Gabe Hardman and I are teaming again to do a Batman story. I’ve really been loving all the high-fives everyone has been giving on line even though it’s just a short piece. But now maybe we’ll push [...]

That’s right, Dark Horse is doing a WILLOW (Rosenberg) miniseries with its Buffy Season 9, and I’m writing it, Brian Ching is drawing it. I say a little more at the Entertainment Weekly article and you can see the full David Mack cover. And of course, I’m happy because supernatural material!

This is maybe too basic, but it couldn’t hurt to have a reminder if you’re writing comics. Don’t forget where the page turns are (this won’t matter as much when its all digital). Unless your publisher does something different with the book, page 1 is on the right and page 2 will be your first [...]

Back in 1944, he explained, he had been pulled from combat with a dangerous case of frozen feet and frostbite and then sent to a hospital in Britain. English farmers would plow ancient coins up by the dozen and while they kept the gold ones they gave the lumpy lead coins to “the boys in [...]

Tonight at 6pm Western, Steve Lieber and I will be talking about how we made Underground, our deadly cave chase story. This is for the Creators Workshop at Comics Experience. Check in!

Steve Lieber and I, if we can figure out the meeting software, will be joining COMICS EXPERIENCE tomorrow night for their creators workshop focusing on our book, Underground. It’s a comics making school run by Andy Schmidt You may be able to listen live or call in or something, I’m not sure. I’ll know all [...]

Last night the kids and I finished The Witches in this Roald Dahl jag we’ve been on. I like that the boy (spoilers!) stays a mouse after they turn him into one, and he and his cigar-smoking Norwegian grandmother become this formidable witch-killing team. This one clearly draws on Dahl’s childhood heavily. Now my Dahl-ites [...]

I was going on last night on Twitter about this- I often rail on American cars and how we do nothing interesting anymore in design or engineering. But this Jeep J-12 concept truck is seriously boss, with all those callbacks to classic models. Not that I need a truck, I still have my little Isuzu- [...]

While we’re looking at process stuff, I thought you’d like to see how Declan Shalvey lays out a comic book. He always figures the whole thing out in two batches of thumbnails and it lets me read a tiny, rough version of the whole book. This is why his compositions are so strong- when you [...]

Here’s a little bit of Carlo Pagulayan’s process from HULK 50 (out now! Go get it!) so you can see what he starts with and then pencils. The first is quick roughs all in digital.

I don’t know why all my books have to come out on the same week instead of spreading the wealth, but I suppose if you follow my stuff in particular it makes it easier for you. This really is a banner week for me- first, from Dark Horse I reunite with my ol’ X-Men First [...]

I got lucky and everyone in Seattle who asked for commissioned art requested really cool subjects. Like this one of Mr. Lao from Agents of Atlas, for Brian Keohan. I threw in loyal Chang for scale. You can see some great Atlas pieces in Brian’s collection over at the comicartfans site, like this Bob and [...]

Emerald City Comicon 2012 was a big success like every Seattle show so far, well done, Jim Demonakis. I sat between Tom Fowler and Gabriel Hardman and was in spitting range of Kevin Nowlan (sorry Kevin). Every day was busy and Saturday and Sunday felt like a quiet San Diego Comicon as the ECCC folks [...]

It’s April Fool’s Day, so you’re going to be showered with fake news and proclamations everywhere you go, as if we’re all ten years old. Since I’m at a comics show, I expect it to be even worse. But that news about Dark Horse publishing Bucko was no trick, read the Comics Alliance announcement. Before [...]