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ZINES!

ZINES!

There’s a good sized community out there for any kind of zine you can think of, not to mention numerous local and national zine fests where zinesters can gather to trade their books. They have long served the comics community as a way to tell a story that is short and unfettered. Some zines are akin to tiny works of art: riso printed, screen printed, hand bound, and full of fancy papers. Others are quick and dirty fold-ups that serve the purpose of any ephemera, a quick relay of information…

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Then & Now (Volume 2)

Then & Now (Volume 2)

About a year ago, I contributed to an art book on kickstarter called Then & Now. The editors picked a number of illustrators and asked us to find old drawings from childhood to redraw now that we are professionals.

As with last year, I went to my high school sketch book (I was approximately 15 or 16 when I had this one) and plucked out two random character pages.

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