Reviewing the ‘Final Crisis’ Finale

I have to start this off by saying that I have not read Final Crisis #7. I gave up after the execrable mess of issue three.
So it’s been interesting to look around the Internet a little as DC’s big event wraps up and see how various reviewers responded, particularly because this series more than [...]

See You at New York Comic Con

For anybody I know (or don’t) who’s braving the cold for next week’s New York Comic Con, I’ll be in town as well.
It’s my first trip to the big city (gasp!), so I’m only at the Con on Saturday. Otherwise I’ll be acting a tourist — which, nowadays, means going to Wall Street and flipping [...]

New Header

Right above here, you’ll see the blog has a new header: a collection of self portraits of me making silly faces. Silly, eh?
My wife says, “I like your real face better.”

Some Published Art

As someone just getting back into art, this is a pretty cool moment for me: first published artwork.
It’s certainly amateurish as all get out, but I had a full-page illustration accompanying a magazine article on nuclear energy. The black space at the bottom was used for a headline, so it looks a little goofy without [...]

Apparently, They Killed Batman Again

I’m now about four months into my self-imposed exile from weekly comics, and I haven’t made much effort to keep posted on comics news.
Still, I would’ve thought that the DEATH OF BATMAN in Final Crisis #6 would make some sort of dent. I only heard about it after a comics-savvy friend mentioned it on a [...]

Portrait of the Artist as an Odd Man

I’ve been teaching myself Photoshop and Illustrator lately, as I’m getting more and more back into drawing. To make it a little more fun, I’ve been drawing to give myself material to play with.
Combine that with my passion (yes, passion) for making funny faces and what results is a series of the least flattering self [...]

‘Watchmen’ in an Editorial Cartoon

A good friend of mine from college, Neal Obermeyer, is a super-talented editorial cartoonist for the Lincoln Journal-Star (among many other outlets) and also gets credit as The Guy Who Got Me Back Into Comics.
One of Neal’s great strengths as a cartoonist is that, unlike the vast majority of cartoonists out there, he eschews the [...]

Joining Top Shelf

A belated happy holidays, happy New Year, etc. to everyone out there. I spent the jolly season in my native western Nebraska, blissfully out of cell phone coverage and away from the Internet.
On my end, here’s some news for 2009: I’ll be taking on a slightly more official role with Top Shelf Productions. I’ve been [...]