Holiday Comics from Years Past
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Happy holidays to everyone out there in internet-land! Whether you celebrate Chanukah, Christmas, Festivus, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, Bear-Hatting Day, one of the fake holidays or nothing at all, I hope you spend the coming week warm and in the company of those you love.
Here are some of my favorite Wondermark holiday comics from years past:
#363; In which Joy is mandated
#093; In which a Fortress is breached
#357; In which
This is a drawing by my old art teacher/mentor, John Arthur Williams. John drew this in the front page of a sketchbook he gave me as a gift. (The sketchbook had crappy binding but the drawing survives excellently.)
John taught me and my fellow students most of the artistic philosophy that bubbles out of me occasionally, and which in fact contributed… 
It surprised me, but in a life-drawing class about eight years ago I discovered I really love drawing with a pen more than a pencil. It makes me more precise.
Not really that evident in this drawing -- it's a bit scribbly -- but in general, drawing directly with a felt-tipped marker makes you work more slowly, giving each line more thought… 
This is by my wife Nikki, drawn in one of her makeup classes (she's in school learning special-effects movie makeup and often comes home wearing beards or bizarre noses). She told me that she's always wanted to be able to doodle, but over the years has never been able to come up with anything particularly interesting -- interlocking… 