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So what’s with all those tiny pigs?

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

If you’ve met me at a comic book convention, you may have noticed the little herd of toy pigs decorating my table. I bought those when I was drawing the first Hereville book, to help me draw the pig character! I took hundreds of photos of those plastic pigs, from every angle and height, and [...]

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Hereville 2 Title Page Pencils!

Sunday, July 29, 2012

So Hereville 2 is nearly done! I’ve drawn all the story pages and the cover, and I just finished penciling the title page a few minutes ago. Jake is blazing along on the colors. I want to go back and revise some drawings I’m not happy with, but basically, my part is done. After all [...]

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Hereville without Barry

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

I always enjoy seeing what Jake’s colors look like without my drawings and word balloons getting in the way.

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Hereville book 2 – cover sketches

Friday, April 13, 2012

Warning: The images below contain some spoilers regarding the plot of Hereville book 2. Then again, so does, you know, the actual cover to the book. So when I started work on the cover to book 2, everyone (“everyone” in this case meaning me, the folks at Abrams (my editor Sheila and book designer Chad [...]

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Book two in progress: A Couple of Fruma Outfits

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Hereville book two is now completely written and laid out (although there are a couple of pages I want to go back and fix), and I’m now at long last drawing actual pages. A bunch of pages are partway drawn, a few pages are complete, and — much to my excitement — the front cover [...]

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Preview: Page 107, before and after

Monday, October 25, 2010

Here’s a preview page from “Hereville.” These preview pages can have spoilers, so don’t look if you’d rather not see! This time I’m showing one of the pages that got redrawn between the first version of Hereville, and the graphic novel. I show both versions, so you can see how they compare. (Info on buying [...]

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Process: Drawing a Panel of Hereville

Monday, August 16, 2010

I drew Hereville on my computer, using a Cintiq tablet, which is a kind of interactive pen-on-screen tool that I couldn’t possibly live without. The software I use is Photoshop CS4. I used to draw with CS2, but I upgraded to CS4 because it lets you rotate an image while you work on it. Okay, [...]

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