His Infinite Strip
When I was a teenager, growing up in Syracuse NY, I used to spend all of my available money on art books. Not just any art books, not the educational books my parents bought me about “fine” artists, all safely carrying society’s seal of approval. These were books with titles like “The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo”. Books crammed [...]
Continue ReadingWhen Death Finds You, May it Find You Alive
“Almost all cultures have the notion that there is a judgment when we die. Some kind of accounting has to be made of one’s life. I believe God – and to me “God” is just shorthand for the ineffable divine presence – has only one question for us at the end: “Did you become yourself“? We [...]
Continue ReadingOpen Letter to my Neighbors
Dear Neighbor, Recently, you may have heard an odd, strangled yodeling echoing around our neighborhood, and wondered what it was. The answer is, it’s our rooster, Achilles! I’ve always wanted to raise chickens, for fun and for the eggs, and this spring I decided to give it a try. I found a young farmer near the airport who sold [...]
Continue ReadingSD-2 Golden Scythe
Back in 2006 I published a graphic novel called JLA Classified: Cold Steel which opened with a sleek golden spaceship being pursued across the surface of the moon. I had painted that comic in a new way (for me). Instead of painting each page as a single, 11″x17″ image with a lot of little panels, I painted each panel individually [...]
Continue ReadingOff to Gencon
Off to Gencon for four days of fun and relaxation with my little brother. I so rarely get to just attend a convention… no “manning the table”, no worrying about originals walking off mysteriously, no carpal-tunnel syndrome from signing 4″ stacks of cards. Can’t wait!
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