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  • Jesse Hamm

    Carousel 029: Composition

    CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 029: Composition Aspiring comic book artists are often admonished to work on their perspective, their anatomy, and their storytelling, but I don’t often hear “composition”…

    Carousel 029: Composition
  • Maggie Thompson

    Maggie’s World 087: A Robot Century

    MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 087: A Robot Century When the play R.U.R. by Karl Čapek had its premiere on January 25, 1921, Rossum’s Universal Robots introduced the word “robot”…

    Maggie’s World 087: A Robot Century
  • Jesse Hamm

    Carousel 028: Timing Your Efforts

    CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 028: Timing Your Efforts I once read a book on drawing in which the author described, in detail, how to draw highly realistic figures. I…

    Carousel 028: Timing Your Efforts
  • Maggie Thompson

    Maggie’s World 086: Maggie Anecdotage

    MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 086: Maggie Anecdotage Now and then, I’ve been known to launch into a “that reminds me” anecdote—and people have occasionally responded with a…

    Maggie’s World 086: Maggie Anecdotage
  • Katie Cook

    You Can Draw with Katie Cook 076: How to Draw a Spooky Friend!

    OOOOOO …. SPOOKY! You Can Draw with Katie Cook 076: How to Draw a Spooky Friend! Written by Published Updated

    You Can Draw with Katie Cook 076: How to Draw a Spooky Friend!
  • Maggie Thompson

    Maggie’s World 085: Vacuous Villainy

    MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 085: Vacuous Villainy The 37th Maggie’s World focused on evildoers and their motivations and challenges. The motivations were summarized as: Hunger. Control. Insanity. Vengeance. Occupation. Plot…

    Maggie’s World 085: Vacuous Villainy