Millions of generations of trees have disintegrated into the forest floor.  The forest neither mourns nor remembers a single twig. And ...

Paper is our staging ground between thought and physical reality.  Intangible concepts that we wish existed in real life (but probably neve...

Many talented illustrators develop a style, find an audience, and enjoy a long, successful career catering to that audience.  But there is ...

This Calvin & Hobbes comic strip-- one of my favorites-- is taped above my desk to remind me of Thoreau's important maxim: "Si...

When the very first art teacher commanded the very first art student to learn anatomy, it began a long, long search for shortcuts.  ...

Regular readers know that I am a big fan of the brilliant Richard Thompson .   I recently had the pleasure of w...