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Luke and Me Episode 3

By | October 13th, 2014|Categories: Gene's Blog|Tags: , |

My friend and brother-in-law Luke is making his first comic! He asked me to help him along the process, and we’ve decided to post our interactions here. In case you missed it, here are the previous posts in this series: Luke and Me Episode 1 Luke and Me Episode 2 Luke recently sent me the plot summary [...]

Luke and Me Episode 2

By | October 4th, 2014|Categories: Gene's Blog|Tags: , |

Luke's drawing of an awesome bird demon monster guy   My friend and brother-in-law Luke is making his first comic! He asked me to help him along the process, and we’ve decided to post our interactions here. In case you missed it, here’s how we got started: Luke and Me Episode 1 Luke’s been [...]

Luke and Me Episode 1

By | September 24th, 2014|Categories: Gene's Blog|Tags: , , |

Luke's son playing next to Luke's drawing of a Demon   My friend Luke and I could not be more different.  He's got full sleeve tattoos.  My arms are as unblemished as a newborn baby's butt.  He sports a stylish goatee.  I can't grow connectors (the hair that connects your mustache to your beard) [...]

Advice for the Aspiring Cartoonist

By | September 27th, 2012|Categories: Gene's Blog|Tags: , |

I get a lot of e-mail from aspiring cartoonists asking for advice, even more so now that I'm writing the Airbender comics.  Figured I should share some of my thoughts here.  Here's a slightly edited version of my response in a recent exchange: Here's what I think:  You have to decide whether self-expression is more important [...]