turday September 6th 2025 marked a very important first for me as an aspiring cartoonist/indie comics creator. I had applied for many shows, like TCAF and MCX and other smaller shows, but this very first iteration of Grafficker Alley was the first to offer me a table to sell my wares.
Sometimes I’ll hold on to a series well past the point that I have determined I will not read it again, nor will I be using it as reference to make my own comics. It’s this sense that if I were to get rid of the books it would be a betrayal of the financial…
This week I go visit a lawyer at a free legal clinic for artists for the second time in one calendar year. I’ve had a strategic change of mind about a long ongoing situation and want to make certain that I go about it in the most secure way possible. I’ve found a new path…
I’m an idea guy. Naturally I have a lot of ideas for stories, designs, concepts, projects et al. Often I paint in broad strokes, but when I get serious about something I have become increasingly good at the nitty-gritty detail work. I presently have lists and lists of tasks to accomplish for establishing my online…
I’ve been spending a good deal of time lately crafting a rigid structure for my current comic book project. This structure applies not only to the story I am telling, but also the logistics of how many pages it would be, and deadlines for when different pieces of the story have to be done to…
In the recent past I’ve developed confidence in myself in a way I have never before experienced as a visual artist. I now know that with dedication, patience, research, and tools I can draw pretty much anything. How well I do it, technically and aesthetically speaking, is just a matter of time. These pictures aren’t…
I’m having fun with the names of these articles. I gotta admit, I’ve been feeling pretty worn out. I’ve added so many new things to my day-to-day life that after being derailed by the faulty DVD I was in the midst of reviewing for last week’s aborted #DiscoveringWrestling I found it hard to get back…
So, I’ve been slowing down on the sketching and adventuring with my art because I have been preparing a full page as a test for my ability to do a comic that I will host here. All my effort lately has been in slowly bringing this together. Adding details and elaborating on it. I’m a…
Okay, okay, I’m cheating here a bit. These are also from an old sketchbook, the same one my mecha drawings are from. It’s all years old content, but I needed to have an article ready for today and figured that I haven’t shown off much in the way of my fictional Pro-Wrestling universe. So, here’s…
This week is gonna be short but sweet. As I’ve mentioned in my sporadic #CrowdPleasers columns, my favourite kind of reward, while not always in my price range, are the ones that let you add something creatively to the product you are helping to support. As I love drawing and doing character design, this is…