Jason Young
Author's posts
Mar 16
Scott McCloud!
Earlier tonight my friend Neil and I went to see Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, Zot!, The Sculptor) speak at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He talked about visual literacy, the unused potential of the comics medium and monkeys, Monkeys, MONKEYS!!! His power point show is innovative, informative and pretty dang great. He’s a fantastic speaker …
Mar 13
The Cat
When I was a kid my brother and I had a set of the 1984 Marvel Super Heroes First Issue Covers trading cards. There were cards of all the classic first issue covers like Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-man and The X-men… but there was always one that stuck out to me. I’d never seen …
Mar 10
Scratch
This was super fun. It’s called scratch paper and it’s much like scratch board only in’s a lot thinner and instead of having an undercoating of white it’s tie dyed underneath the black surface layer. Pretty inexpensive as well. Try it out sometime if you’re bored!
