For the past three years, much of my professional illustration work has been for the podcast First Person Plural: Emotional Intelligence and Beyond (on which I’m also an associate producer), a podcast on emotional intelligence hosted by Dr. Daniel Goleman, Hanuman Goleman, and Elizabeth Solomon. Below are some of my favorite cover illustrations for theContinue reading “The Art of First Person Plural”
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Teaching Baby Paranoia: Critical Health Theory
I wrote this last summer, but put it on hold for several months because of a health emergency in the family. Oddly, Americans seem to have difficulty comprehending systems thinking: how explicit and implicit rules govern our social interactions.
Teaching Baby Paranoia: Honey, Honey
New Year’s Eve, 1999. The world is teetering on the brink of collapse. At least, that’s how I remember it. Something about Y2K. That night, perhaps tipsy on Belgian beer, and champagne chugged hastily from a paper cup (I was 26, and so, so classy), I made a New Year’s Resolution that I ended upContinue reading “Teaching Baby Paranoia: Honey, Honey”
Drawing Infographics
I recently created an infographic for work. It was an interesting experiment: how to cram a ton of information into a [relatively] small amount of space, while still making it aesthetically pleasing, and readable. Plus, it was a chance to draw in a simple, two color style.
Oh, The Beating Drum!
It’s been a while since I posted anything here. Here’s an excerpt from Oh, The Beating Drum! number 8. This one features lizardmen, funny hats, rain, houses on stilts, people complaining about things, anachronisms, and a reference to a classics professor I had in 1993. As always, the entirety can be read in the magazineContinue reading “Oh, The Beating Drum!”
Oh, The Beating Drum!
Every once in a long while comes a comic so profound, it changes all the rules. This is probably that comic. Though, as the author, I might not be an objective opinion on this matter. Actually, this is the first page of that comic. There are two pages in total. You should probably subscribe toContinue reading “Oh, The Beating Drum!”
Oh, The Beating Drum! #5
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, Oh, The Beating Drum! Or, at least the first page of it. As always, you can read the entire thing by subscribing to Epidiah Ravachol’s magazine of sword & sorcery Worlds Without Master.
Mindful Filter Comic
I recently made a comic for work. We’re doing this new social media experiment called Mindful Filter; to explain it to people, I drew it out in four-color splendor. If you’re curious, check it out at morethansound.net/mindfulfilter
Oh, The Beating Drum! Episode 2
A second issue of Worlds Without Master has been published, which means that a second episode of Oh, The Beating Drum! has been published! It’s like serendipity, except planned. Here’s are the first two pages (of three), featuring Unnamed Swordswoman #1 and Unnamed Sorceress #1.
Oh, The Beating Drum!
The first issue of Epidiah Ravachol’s new magazine of sword and sorcery, Worlds Without Master, just came out. I have a two-page comic in it, titled Oh, The Beating Drum! Here’s the first page:
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