Team “Mormon,” taken circa 1937–1938.

A recent cartoon for the Guardian.

Color palette tutorial time!

This is by no means the Only Way To Pick Colors—it’s just a relatively-simple method I use sometimes.  I’ve found it works pretty well, almost regardless of what colors you pick—as long as you can keep them organized by those light/dark warm/cool categories, and make sure one category takes up a significantly higher proportion of page space, it usually turns out pretty good!

Contrast is king.

For my CalArts students!!

Standard Art Print Sizes (in & px)

4” x 6”        (600 pixels x 900 pixels) 5” x 7”        (750 pixels x 1050 pixels) 6” x 6”        (900 pixels x 900 pixels) 8” x 10”      (1200 pixels x 1500 pixels) 8.5” x 11”   (1275 pixels x 1650 pixels) 11” x 14”    (1650 pixels x 2100 pixels) 12” x 12”    (1800 pixels x 1800 pixels) 12” x 16”    (1800 pixels x 2400 pixels) 16” x 20”    (2400 pixels x 3000 pixels) 18” x 24”    (2700 pixels x 3600 pixels) 19” x 13”    (2850 pixels x 1950 pixels) 20” x 24”    (3000 pixels x 3600 pixels) 24” x 24”    (3600 pixels x 3600 pixels) 12” x 36”    (1800 pixels x 5400 pixels) 24” x 36”    (3600 pixels x 5400 pixels)            

I know I’ve reblogged this before, but it’s that helpful.

One more before bedtime! An anonymous submission to Deep Dark Fears.

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The Prodigal Son from the Fraktur collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia

A fear submitted by Lisa Lemonshoos to deep dark fears. The new Deep Dark Fears book is available now at Amazon, B&N, IndieBound, iBooks, Google Books, your local bookstore, and wherever books are sold!

Bride of Gertrudestein, and More Literary Halloween Ghouls.

A Comic by Joe Sparrow

Full Issue Here

I did this little sorta comic thing for the folks at Zaftig zine for their “misfortune” issue. it’s about an angry girl who’s trying to reach a critical mass of unluck. one of those i-dont-know-whether-it-sucks kind of things but it’s a comic and i made it so i should tell people about it.

Joe Sparrow

Fantastic Four #99 (Jun. 1970)