It’s fun to make comics. …so I made another one. This time I had more than a morning to put the thing together!
13
Aug
A Happy Day – Vol. 1
These are panels from the first comic book that I ever made! I was visiting some friends in San Francisco, and the APE was happening, so I stopped by the copy shop on my way there to make some comic books so that I wouldn’t be attending the show empty-handed.
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