Costa K's site.

Yeah, I know that the edges of the Bristol are visible from the scan, couldn't get rid of those. I trimmed it sloppily.

Most of this was inked with a brush, and only a few little things like the background done with a pen. I know I'm pretty rusty with the Pentel, I think I'm doomed to always be a tech pen guy. Still, I like to try new stuff when it comes to making comics.

Hope you guys enjoy it!

I figure it's monumental enough to mention, but there are now TWO new essays up at THE COMIC BOOK AS THE IDEAL IN STORYTELLING, a blog of academically-minded essays on comics. Considering there were a few months in between the first two or three posts, I'm considering this a personal milestone.

Check it out, I talk about "Calvin and Hobbes," as well as "Essex County." Previous entries are about "Ghost In The Shell" and "Stone Soup."

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I've really been enjoying my new project Eat The Funny Pages, and I hope you've been enjoying it so far too. At ETFP, I'm posting quick Q&A interviews from cartoonists, plus some of my favorite quotes from my favorite cartoonists and comic writers.

There's a little bit up there now and I'm hoping in the next few weeks to be able to get something really nice up there.

Stay tuned!

I know a lot of my focus the past week or so hasn't been on cartooning, as teaching and writing have moved to the front. I figured I'd scrape together some stuff that's been sitting around in my sketchbook and on my desk, comic-wise.

SO MUCH COMICS!

Tessa and I were in the office last month, and I got my hands on some nice-sized pieces of scrap print paper, so I decided to just do these as I was sitting around. The files are labeled "comics_commentary" on my desktop (numbered 1 through 4) but they're really mostly just jokes/observations about comics after a rough day of reading some comic book criticism.

Obviously these aren't long-form legitimate and in-depth criticisms or actual commentary about other critics, I've just gotten increasingly disenchanted with some comics criticism and I'm poking fun at all of it.

This is just me going back to one of several back-burner comic projects, trying to refine some of the ideas for it. As one project moves all the way to the back of the metaphorical cartooning stove, this one does move up a bit. Don't worry, writing, single-panel editorials and M&C will still be going, this is just writing/sketchbook shenanigans for now.

This is just something I like to work on when I get a chance to, which is turning out to be less and less often recently. However, I'm passionate enough about eventually trying to do it that I think it'll be really good when I finalize it.

...I'm just kidding, I know exactly what this is. Since I took these pictures I've moved on to the pencils for this particular thing. I don't know if it's going to end up in the outlet I initially planned on it, but regardless it'll eventually get done.

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Good God, that's a lot of sketching and comic-making. A bunch of stuff has also been posted at Mayhem & Cuddles with what I feel like are some of the best comics I've done (still not good to my own critical eye, but better than I used to draw).

Stay tuned for more stuff, I tend to post stuff on Twitter as it goes up, but then group updates/reminders here. Have a good weekend.