My Comics

  1. freemini

    Free Minicomic

    [They are all gone now. I'll post a digital version in a week or so (after the mailed copies have likely been delivered).] Download the Minicomic as a 1.2MB CBZ File (Note: each of the originals had a different cover, this scan is of the copy I kept for my archives.) I learned this morning [...]

  2. badman_comics_poetry_6

    Colletta Suite I-VI

    These six comics (of which the above is the sixth) are all redrawn appropriations from a number of Vince Colletta drawn romance comics (most from Charleton) accompanied by text copied and edited from various sources. I was trying out a strange 9 panel layout, designed as a set of 3 groups of 3 panels, that [...]

  3. mib3pack

    MadInkBeard 3-pack

    Get the three print issues of MadInkBeard (2,3,5) that are still available, for a reduced price (and reduced shipping since this will only count as 1 item. Only 1 of these left, as it is the last copies of #2 available. More details on the issues.

  15. 2012-11-01

    2012-11-07: #30dayscomics Week 1

    Here is the first week of comics for 30 Days of Comics (plus a bonus animated gif). I’m posting them daily at http://madinkbeard.tumblr.com if you want to follow along there. I’m also sharing some other participants comics. (Click the thumbnails to see the slideshow.)

  17. mars_p2

    Mars comic excerpt

    Here’s a page from a comic I just finished. I submitted it to an anthology, so you may not see the whole thing in the immediate future. Unfortunately the anthology is in black and white, so I thought I’d put up one of the color pages. Some of the images are edited from photos sent [...]

  24. 2011_12_24 (after Schulz)

    2011-12-24 (after Schulz)

    One thing I love about Peanuts are the backgrounds. The endpapers of Fantagraphics’ The Complete Peanuts volumes are my favorite work that Seth has ever done. Here’s a comic based on one strip from July 3, 1980.

  30. 0-cam

    Cross Game Reduction

    This post originally appeared at The Panelists as two posts on May 27, 2011 as part of the Manga Moveable Feast. I’m not just a critic but also a creator of comics, so instead of writing another post I thought I’d put together a comic for you fine MMF readers. I’m calling it, “Cam”. In [...]

  32. AhSeen_1

    Ah Seen

    A 36 page comic I didn’t draw. I’ll let this one go without explanation. Best read in full screen mode without zooming (image quality will degrade quickly). A few sample pages are below. Download the PDF (3.1mb)

  33. 4_23_11

    Walnut Street

    A quick experiment for today: more appropriated imagery (do I even need to bother drawing anymore?) and a first step in seeing how far I can stretch lightness.

  38. partycrashers

    Party Crashers

    This Friday at the Arlington Art Center, the exhibit “Party Crashers” is opening. I’ve got a few pieces in the show, some of my appropriations from last year’s “30 Days of Comics” and a couple of my Fragments of Photorealism. That’s my comic “Furies” on the postcard for the show. Unfortunately I’m not making it [...]

  48. eland_p1

    Eland, an abstract comic

    An abstract comic I created by drawing over a Jesse Marsh Tarzan story, “Tarzan and the Giant Eland” (Tarzan #16, July/August 1950). Drawn as a possible submission for Abstract Comics: An Anthology (Fantagraphics, 2009) (a different comic ended up in that volume).

  49. CRL News Dec 2007 cover

    My First Magazine Cover

    Now official released to a ton of librarians my cover to the December 2007 issue of College & Research Libraries News. I was given the theme of Philadelphia because our January association meeting is here. Naturally I took a comic like layout. I also used a constraint for organizing the panels by Library of Congress [...]

  52. sorrentino

    Elegy for GS

    “Elegy for G.S.” was done in honor of author Gilbert Sorrentino who died May 18, 2006. The text in the bottom half of each panel is quoted from his works. This comic originally appeared in The Quarterly Conversation.

  54. momatour

    A Walking Tour of the MOMA, NYC

    One of a few comics I did as experiments in the concept of “Pictureless Comics.” I tried to create comics using only the conventional icons and symbols and structures of comics without any real drawing or pictures, so to speak. I’d also consider this a “color field” comic, as it brings the concept of that [...]