Political Fiction

“I’m trying to say I’ve invented this world that I think is really cool and I have these really big stories to tell in it and one of the ways that I find to make that interesting is to think about it politically. If you want to do that too, that’s fantastic. But if not, isn’t this a cool monster?” – China Miéville

“It’s… A gun.”

Messing around in Sketchbook Pro.

RIP Genre.

“Sorting comics by genre simply makes less sense in the 21st century, as American comics finally push past the “superheroes/everything else” dichotomy and embrace a wider multiplicity of storytelling forms.”

-Dirk Deppey

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“I don’t think the world many of you want –where a creator feels personally responsible and saddened every time someone anonymously or nonymously (sic) expresses contempt when they don’t like the work–will ever exist or ever has.” – Stephen Wacker

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Part of page 146.

7 years out.

I spent the day, Thursday, talking to the 3rd year class at The Joe Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey.

There’s a great group of students about to graduate next May. I can only hope that some of what I rambled on about to them made sense and helps out.

I don’t think enough graduates of the school take the time to come back and talk to the students about their experiences and lives after graduating, so it was something I felt was important that I do while in town.

The 3 years I spent at Kubert’s were some of the most formative of my life, so it’s the least I can do to talk up the school in interviews and online. To go back to the school and to talk to the current crop of 3rd year students makes it even better.

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KC Fancon Sketches

Had a great time at KC Fancon today.

Thanks to everyone who came out and said hey or bought stuff. I really appreciate it. One of my better shows this year, and I really appreciate the love a lot of you are showing by coming out to see me and say hey at the local shows.

Got to catch up with quite a few people that I don’t get to see regularly enough, and got to do some fun sketches. I didn’t get pics of them all, but here’s a few:

(Sorry for the shitty cam quality, camera phones have improved greatly in the 2 years since I bought mine. Ah well).

Hope you all had a great Halloween (I slept through most of mine).

MELLON at KC FanCon #23

Hey, Everyone. I’ll be the guest artist at this Sunday’s KC FanCon.

Please come out and say hey, it’s the last appearance of the year for me.

KC FAN CON #23 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2009

WYNDHAM GARDEN HOTEL (click for map)
7000 West 108th Street, Overland Park, Kansas

10am – 4pm

F R E E A D M I S S I O N

Special Guest Artist: KEVIN MELLON

(Gearhead, Thirteen Steps, Comic Book Tattoo Anthology, Hack/Slash,
This Is A Souvenir Anthology, Dresden Files, Suicide Sisters)

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