How to Draw ____. (w/ RJR)
Robert James RussellA monthly-ish newsletter about comics and the creative process—drawing insights, behind-the-scenes peeks into my practice, and the inspirations driving my work.
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RIP Marjane Satrapi
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We lost a titan of the comics world this week.
There are very few books I can point to and say, with complete confidence, that they changed the trajectory of my life. Persepolis did twice. That’s probably why the news of M...
Color Notes from Mexico City
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To the chagrin of anyone who travels with me, I’m very easily awed and am constantly stopping to take photos of everything. One day in a new city and I’m ready to move there. The feeling usually fades after a few days—the n...
Happy Earth Day 2026
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Since moving to Nebraska in 2019, I’ve been a little obsessed with sandhill cranes. Each spring, somewhere between 80–90% of the world’s population—around one million birds—funnels through central Nebraska’s Platte River Val...
A Birthday Comic
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My birthday’s coming up in a few days. I’ll be forty-five. Yes, I’m an Aries. I had a pretty gnarly quarter-life crisis, and I like to think that maybe I’ve skipped over the mid-life one? But heading into this birthday has m...
The Work of Drawing
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A few weeks ago, the Nebraska State Museum gift shop unveiled a new sign I designed.
I wax poetic here often about the art of comicsmaking, but seeing my design in the wild got me thinking: What changes in our approach when...
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Author and illustrator. Graphic memoir HARD BODY (forthcoming from Simon & Schuster). Apologetic Midwesterner. Can speak cat.
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