Drawing preliminary roughs on separate sheets makes cleaner comic book pencil art.

Every phase is done independently, as if someone else was doing the other parts. When writing, I'm only a writer. My pencilling inner dialog is, "Does that hack writer even know what editing is?" Dave the inker berates Dave the penciller, Dave the letterer thinks the other Daves are pretentious jerks, while Dave the colorist wishes everyone planned better.

Illustration for a character page. India ink on bristol paper, image area 15 inches wide, with height options of 10 and 12 inches.

Art, design, and concepts for an insurance industry marketing campaign for Ask Kodiak, a commercial insurance search engine founded by Michael Albert and Allan Egbert in 2015.

Wordpress always bothered me. Since launching in 2011, managing the Wordpress file system, themes, plugins, and MySQL database seemed like an increasingly overblown solution to host comics. My being particular about markup and styles only added more complexity. I built a static HTML site as a local guide, pasting HTML content into Wordpress fields. This occasionally caused conflicts with various extensions and updates. Wordpress also generated too much spam comments and emails.

Got enlisted to Gaspar's Posse, hung out with Denis Kitchen, got free lettering help from Tom Orzechowski and Chris Eliopoulos, and sold a few Inky Stories while squatting a con table. Possibly my best convention since WonderCon 1999.

Without the dots, ink gain and absorbent newsprint, the colors are louder than intended. This was discovered during the economic and technological shift of the 1980s, when publishers actually printed 64 colors on nicer paper. That's when the industry went with full digital color, effectively ending the four color process era of comics.

Art exhibition space of Agencyport Software. As part of the historic Fort Point Channel creative community, it promotes the work of local artists with monthly exhibitions. For some reason, they decided to hang my work for a month! See for yourself at the opening reception:

In the pre-digital era of print production, there were a few ways to spice up single-color line art with implied gray tones. Along with crosshatching, coquille board and screentone (most commonly called Zip-A-Tone), the richest and most expensive method was Duo-Shade by Grafix.

For the third consecutive year (Arisia 2011, Arisia 2012), I've had honor and privige of being a panelist at Arisia, New England's premier scifi convention for fans and professionals.

This is especially amazing because at that time I hadn't drawn or written comics in almost a decade. Why'd they let a rookie pollute their walls for a month?

Arisia is a New England-based scifi convention for fans and professionals. For the second consecutive year, I got to participate on a few panels.

I'm coloring the new version of "Six-Year-Old Horse Thief". Out of all the elements of comics, coloring's been my weakest (those who've read my dialog might have a different opinion). This is my first attempt of addressing this issue with history and objective analysis. In order to move forward in any mission, you have to (a) be completely sick of the status quo and (b) have some ideal to compare your current output.

For the third consecutive year (Arisia 2011, Arisia 2012), I've had honor and privige of being a panelist at Arisia, New England's premier scifi convention for fans and professionals.