Impossible thoughts and complicated feelings, illustrated. With bonus musings on how to live a creative life.
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Come With Me
Before I made Poetry Comics, I wrote poetry.
Gradually, many of these poems found pictures—and lost a few words in the process.
In this month of daily haiku comics, I’ve found echoes of my old poems in new pages.
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The Shimmering Present
My rules for writing (and drawing) haiku:
Capture things I’ve experienced directly. Let the images suggest how it felt. Use as few words as possible.
My motivation, optimism, and energy wax and wane. But why should they remain constant?...
Art in the Age of AI Anxiety
Author’s note: I’ve avoided commenting on artificial intelligence up to this point. When I saw an AI-generated comic based on one of my own, I decided it was time to examine my role as a human artist in this AI-addled world. I don’t have ma...
A Smaller Me
David Hockney, one of the greatest contemporary painters, has died at age 88. His work is a symphony of color, line, and form. He painted water, trees, and people in new and fascinating ways.
Hockney mastered traditional painting technique...
Everything
Theories on happiness:
Happiness is like pistachio ice cream: A few bites are better than the entire cone.
Happiness is like vanilla ice cream: Always delicious, but even more delicious as a milkshake.
Happiness is like mint choco...
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Creator of Incidental Comics and picture books. Keeper of sketchbooks, loser of pens.
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