Spider-Gwen Colour Sketch

Right before the title drop in Across the Spider-Verse, Spider-Gwen leaves her house and swings out into the sky – does her Spidey thing. It’s a great visual sequence, and I was struck by a fleeting moment where she nearly disappears into the white sky, only standing out by the

More Thoughts on Failure

Last week, I wrote a fairly detailed newsletter on how intentional failure is a big part of learning how to do something. Trying, failing and integrating the failure into your process is how one learns to do anything as an adult. Writing that essay got me thinking about things other

Going Rogue: A Star Wars Podcast

Some of my nerdier friends don’t like it when I refer to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as “the only good Star War”. It’s mostly a joke, but the fact is – that’s the only Star Wars film I’ve been able to watch more than once,

Lettering Checklist

A couple of weeks ago, I posted my old lettering checklist on Twitter. I’ve been working on an essay about learning new things as an adult, and I pulled this up as an example of something that I absolutely needed to have at hand when I was starting out,

The Monkey Man of Delhi

If you’ve been following me on Twitter or through my newsletter, you might know that I’ve been writing a lot more these days, and particularly trying my hand at writing my own comics. In that vein, I am extremely proud to present to you, a short comic written

Diary Comics: December 2022

Late December, I’m not quite sure why, I felt moved to make some diary comics. I’d had a few conversations with artist friends, one of whom recommended that a good way to improve my drawing fast would be to make comics (these are not those, though). But mainly,

Illuminations

Alan Moore is one of the three writers I feel have affected me and my writing the most, at least as an adult – the others being Nick Cave and David Milch. For all three, this is partly through their work, and partly through how they think and speak about their

Night Film

(Mild spoilers. But nothing that reveals the plot of the book, I think.) I have a bit of a yen for horror stories centred around films and film-making. I’m not sure what it is, but there is a certain luminosity to film, a magic that I feel is conducive

The Bear

(Contains mild spoilers.) There is a lot I love about FX’s The Bear, the new drama created by Christopher Storer.[1] The dialogue, the camerawork, and the performances are all great, but there were a few things I wanted to note. First, I loved how the show throws you

Dave McKean on AI-Generated Art

Here’s a lovely interview with Dave McKean on Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Show. The context here is that McKean has created a limited edition graphic novel called Prompt, composed entirely of artwork he has created by feeding text prompts into Midjourney, a text-based art generator AI that is