Fallcon is Minnesota's premier comic book convention, and it's always a lot of fun. I am usually there with a table promoting my illustration work. Except for last year, when I couldn't attend because I was getting married to my lovely and beautiful wife Jennie. That means that this year FallCon is happening the same weekend as our...
As some of you may have heard, Congress is working on major changes to U.S. copyright laws. The new law, called the "Orphan Works Act" has good intentions but will have disastrous results. Congress is trying to make it easier for people to use non-copyrighted images, but in the process they are opening the door too wide. The new...
Two new art blogs you should know about:1. Brother Jones is a blog by three terrific illustrators who happen to also be brothers: Dennis Jones, Doug Jones, and Don Jones. Here's a few samples of their work...
Saturday was my 34th birthday, and my lovely wife Jennie gave me a moleskine sketchbook as a gift. If you aren't familiar with moleskine (pronounced mol-a-skeen-a), they are luxurious high-quality sketchbooks. They are bound in a classy black cover and come with a cloth bookmark sewn into the binding and an elastic band for keeping the book closed...
As you may have heard, a couple of years ago Big Idea (the animation studio that gave us VeggieTales) went bankrupt. As a result, Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber are now owned by Classic Media (which also owns Lassie and Rocky & Bullwinkle). VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer has posted a detailed description of what went right...
It's been five years since the terrorists have had a successful attack on America. As a result, it's tempting to think that the war on terror has pretty much been won. Can't it all just be over already?No, it can't. And now I understand why.Over the last two nights my wife and I watched "The Path to 9/11",...
