I just started working on the final art for Battle Lines. I always feel like if I start drawing from somewhere in the middle of the book, the reader won’t notice how much my drawing style changes from start to finish. So I jump around with the final art — a little here, a little there — and hopefully that’s enough to smooth out the inconsistencies between the good drawing days and the bad drawing days. Anyway, here’s Sam, biding his time at the prison camp at Andersonville.

I just started working on the final art for Battle Lines. I always feel like if I start drawing from somewhere in the middle of the book, the reader won’t notice how much my drawing style changes from start to finish. So I jump around with the final art — a little here, a little there — and hopefully that’s enough to smooth out the inconsistencies between the good drawing days and the bad drawing days.

Anyway, here’s Sam, biding his time at the prison camp at Andersonville.

I love these colorized Civil War photos! zuzahin: An unidentified Confederate Sergeant, most likely an artillery Sergeant, given that he’s not posing with a very powerful weapon, but instead a small sidearm. This photograph is from the Liljenquist Collection - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/

I love these colorized Civil War photos!

zuzahin:

An unidentified Confederate Sergeant, most likely an artillery Sergeant, given that he’s not posing with a very powerful weapon, but instead a small sidearm. This photograph is from the Liljenquist Collection - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/

The 9 pounds of butter that everyone in 1876 was talking about, and the beginning of an era: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_sculpture

The 9 pounds of butter that everyone in 1876 was talking about, and the beginning of an era: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_sculpture

revoltedstates: “We marched to the tap of the drum, and were, in our ill-fitting, grotesque uniforms, the proudest boys in the world.” -Robert G. Carter, 22nd Massachusetts Infantry. Photo source: LOC

revoltedstates:

“We marched to the tap of the drum, and were, in our ill-fitting, grotesque uniforms, the proudest boys in the world.” -Robert G. Carter, 22nd Massachusetts Infantry. Photo source: LOC

Scrapbooking my way through the Civil War (or just collecting reference material…)

Scrapbooking my way through the Civil War (or just collecting reference material…)

Some character studies from Battle Lines.

Some character studies from Battle Lines.

Experimenting with toned paper for Battle Lines. I like the white highlights, but the tone probably needs to go darker.

Experimenting with toned paper for Battle Lines. I like the white highlights, but the tone probably needs to go darker.

Soldiers from the Massachusetts 54th, the famous black regiment that led the Union charge in the battle of Fort Wagner. Nearly two-thirds of them were lost in just a few brutal hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Regiment_Massachusetts_Volunteer_Infantry

Soldiers from the Massachusetts 54th, the famous black regiment that led the Union charge in the battle of Fort Wagner. Nearly two-thirds of them were lost in just a few brutal hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Regiment_Massachusetts_Volunteer_Infantry

A new character I’m working on…

A new character I’m working on…

A sneak peak from my upcoming book, Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War

A sneak peak from my upcoming book, Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War

Absolutely beautiful!! gingerlandcomics: My short story The Worm Troll is finally online at Study Group. I’m really proud of this comic. It was originally published by Delebile Edizioni as Il Troll Dei Vermi. You can order some very nice print editions, with an English translation sheet, here.

Absolutely beautiful!!

gingerlandcomics:

My short story The Worm Troll is finally online at Study Group. I’m really proud of this comic.

It was originally published by Delebile Edizioni as Il Troll Dei Vermi. You can order some very nice print editions, with an English translation sheet, here.

kristianpurcell: From a series of studies of archive photographs from the nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site. Kristian Purcell, watercolour on paper, 2013

kristianpurcell:

From a series of studies of archive photographs from the nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site. Kristian Purcell, watercolour on paper, 2013

thecivilwarparlor: Gen. Rawlins-City Point, Virginia. Gen. John A. Rawlins, wife and child at Grant’s headquarters http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003005424/PP/ Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.

thecivilwarparlor:

Gen. Rawlins-City Point, Virginia. Gen. John A. Rawlins, wife and child at Grant’s headquarters

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003005424/PP/

Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.