Links

Here are a whole slew of links for the websites of my friends, peers and other useful and/or interesting sites scattered around the web. Check 'em out!

 

Non-Comics Friends

Alison Carter

Alison's site has an open-blog where all her friends chat it up. The discussion is pretty lively! Also, Alison's boyfriend (and my good friend) Paul has a corner of her site to call his own!

Andy Hentz

Andy is another member of the ModernThings.net musical community and a good friend. His personal webpage has information about his current musical projects in L.A. and some links to his INCREDIBLE music.

 

Charlotte Phillips

Charlotte is currently working on her NEW SITE which should be up soon. So keep checking it out until something cool turns up!

Gabe Carleton-Barnes

Gabe quit his job, sold all his stuff, crammed some clothes in a backpack and will be traveling all over the world for a year or so. Luckily for the rest of us, he's blogging it! Plenty of adventures and good pictures to check out here...

 

Jim Altieri

Jim is back from his travels in Asia and making music again! Check out his site for mp3s of his music, software and art!

Laura Farrell

Laura keeps a pretty darn good blog. She's got a knack for writing, which makes it a pleasure to read. She's living in Tuscon, AZ these days, keeping the Southwest under control.

 

Mark S. Williams

Although Mark is also the mastermind behind ModernThings.net this here is a link directly to his PERSONAL homepage. There are TONS of mp3s of Mark's great music as well as some other cool things tucked awy in various corners. You should also check out his blog about music and being a musician.

 

Cartoonist Websites

Aaron Renier

Aaron is a super-talented Comics artist. His big book "Spiral Bound" came out from Top Shelf in 2005. His site has a whole SLEW of Comics and drawings and illustrations and pictures that everyone should check out. It's inspiring stuff!

explodingdog.com

explodingdog is one of my favorite sites on the internet HANDS DOWN. Sam Brown makes drawings from your titles. Sometimes ironic and funny, other time heartbreaking and sad. Always rad though!

 

Ezra Claytan Daniels

Ezra is a Comics artist friend I met while living in Portland, OR. You should check out his site, which has the coolest photo-comic I've EVER SEEN, ordering information and samples from his INCREDIBLE graphic novels "The Changers." Ezra is currently living in Chicago and working on his NEXT amazing book.

Josh Shalek

I couldn't find a for real picture of Josh -- but you get the point -- he's a Cartoonist! Josh draws a strip called "The Family Monster" and it is availble for online perusal at his site.

 

Nate Beaty

Nate is part artist / part robot. His site documents his life through journal Comics, writing, photos and beautiful illustrations. His OTHER SITE is the online home to his robot self. He designs webpages, writes code, programs things--he's incredible! He built the site you're looking at right now! (Not to mention a bunch of other, BETTER sites!)

Scott McCloud

This is the website of Comics genius Scott McCloud (author of "Understanding Comics"). I read his blog everyday as it is often a great jump-off pad for the webcomics scene. He's pretty well tapped in.

 
 

Other Awesome Websites

Drawn!

Drawn! is a blog that focuses on Illustration, Comics, Animation and drawings of all sorts. It is a really inspiring site! I check it every night for exposure to the many thousands of talented artists working all over the world today.

starwars.com

The offical site for all things Star Wars (duh). I don't check this site as much now that Star Wars is OVER. But I still probably check it more than about 99.99% of the earth. Old habits die hard I guess...

 

This American Life

This American Life is probably my all-time favorite radio program. I listen to it a lot when I am drawing my Comics. Everyone should check out their amazing archive of shows as free RealAudio streams! Each and every show has something worthwhile in it. SERIOUSLY.

Weezer.com

The website of my all-time favorite band, WEEZER. It's run by Karl Koch, who is the official 5th member of the band. He keeps everyone up to date with what's going on with the band (tours, recording, upcoming releases, videos, etc. etc.) =w=