One of my favorite games of all time is Chris Sawyer’s RollerCoaster Tycoon. I love carefully crafting a park layout, building coasters that work with the landscape and are fun to watch, and sitting back as thousands of digital denizens enjoy my creations (and hand over thousands of digital dollars). Piles of new games come…
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For some reason, this single sketch comes back to me more often than any other Sesame Street bit. Funny, I still don’t eat enough vegetables. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmjLqddPqZQ]
Read more“Untitled,” 1948.Work of Saul Steinberg.SaulSteinbergFoundation.org. Along with artists that have been my inspiration for a while, I love to discover new inspiring artists. Today I was for the first time introduced to Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) via Scott McCloud’s blog. Steinberg was an artist whose work appeared in the New Yorker for decades. Looking over his…
Read moreI just read Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945). Little did I know, he subtitled his book “A Fairy Story,” which was a curious coincidence after reading The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I decided that yes, this is a fariy-story, if a rather complicated and nearly outdated one. Possible spoilers after the break…
Read moreAnother artist I would love to be like is Scott McCloud (whose home online is at ScottMcCloud.com). He’s probably given more thought to his art than any other artist I’ve encountered; Scott strives to understand and to share his understanding of the comic. He has carefully analyzed the place comics hold within the worlds of…
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