Sean Bieri's "Exercise in Rage"

A small but significant news item: the first new "guest" variation on my Exercises in Style story in a good long while (5 years or so?). Unfortunately I can't make heads or tails of it, but the artist, my good friend Sean Bieri, assures me that it's a trenchant, spot-on satire of some currernt internet trend that I need to look up on Know Your Meme.

Update: over on Twitter, @segrim provided a link (indeed, from Know Your Meme) putting the comic in the context of "rage comics".

Just in case you didn't already know, Sean is actually a very gifted draftsman who is also one of the funniest and least appreciated cartoonists out there. Even Scott McCloud says so. Read more...

The Woods Transmissions: Report 01

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99 Ways on the Daily Heller blog

Over on his design blog The Daily Heller, Steve Heller interviewed me and said some nice things about 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Read it here.

I really like how the four pages he pulled as examples are, at first, almost indistinguishable!

If The Daily Heller brought you here to look around, note that you can see a preview of the book as well as some amazing guest artist exercises here. Read more...

"Dugin Izazov": ROYGBIV comics from Croatia

Marko Jačan's ROYGBIV comic

Darko Macan recently sent out a call for entries to his Croatian cartooning friends to do versions of my ROYGBIV comics constraint, where you assign one of the colors of the rainbow to each panel. He named it Dugin izazov ("Rainbow challenge") and you can see the results—several of them wordless or in English—here.


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