you gotta read the story behind this doodle by paul pope.

A friend of mine just showed me Don Silverstein’s work. Yum! …. You can see more of his work at his site here. And read more about him here at Leif Peng’s blog.

Well, I don’t know about everyone else, but this holiday season has entirely snuck up on me. I barely saw it coming!
To celebrate, here’s a few places where you can read gorgeously illustrated children’s books online, for free. I foresee an afternoon in my future of cuddling up with pumpkin pie, some tea, and [...]

my former cartooning teacher, bill brown, is running for president! check out his very appealing platform!

every artist has his humble beginning: Mean collects Steven Weissman’s unpublished, self-published, and rare comics for us to point and laugh at. Look for it and the artist himself at the San Diego Comic-Con this year.

every summer, my wife (flirting above with a tim biskup monster) takes me to the San Diego Comic Convention. if you haven’t been… if you are ANYWHERE nearby… even if you have a complete disinterest in comics… you must go. at least once. to see the supermen with potatoes in their underwear. to be outnumbered [...]

penelope encourages us to toot our own horns. so, if you’re in los angeles next week, i hope you will check out my work, my wife’s work, and the work of some of our favorite artists at the Panelists 3 show at Giant Robot 2.

Happy Monday, ifriers!
Are you as perplexed and overwhelmed by the thought of your own marketing materials as I often am? Do you find it difficult to describe who you are and everything you do on a 2″ x 3.5″ double-sided card?
It is a problem I have and it’s a problem I find common amongst other [...]