My publisher First Second Books has posted a short preview of City of Spies on their website here: http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/cityofspies/cityofspies.html
Sadly, the images are a little small/lo-res which makes the text a bit hard to read at places, but I suppose that’s just all the more incentive to get the book when it comes out.

(As a reminder, you can also see some sample pages (different ones than at the above link) on my site, here: http://dizin-art.com/cityofspies.html)

This is a updated version of a palindromic comic that I originally drew about five years ago. For comparison, here’s the original (sorry for the low quality scan, it’s all I’ve got):

I wonder, if I were to redraw it again in another five years, would the difference be as pronounced…?

I’ve posted some preview pages from my upcoming book, “City of Spies,” here. Sample it, enjoy it, and then pick up the book next May to read the rest!

Some of you may remember some newspaper comic strip spoofs I did a while back that featured bears (the pencils are here). I just recently got around to inking them and they’re now available for your viewing pleasure over in the Short Comics section.

I was digging through my old comics, and I realized I’d never posted this. I had a good chuckle and figured it deserved better than a crumpled fate in the middle of some old portfolio.
While I was at it, I fixed up the “Nancee” comic, since I didn’t think it was particularly effective before. Plus, now it has three rocks*, which just adds something sublime to the whole affair. Click for bigger:

If anyone is anxiously awaiting that ink review I promised, you’ll have to wait a little longer. Actually writing the review up is more time consuming than I anticipated. But it’ll get up here eventually…

-Pascal

*The three rocks:
To quote Scott McCloud:

“Nancy is Plato’s playground. Ernie Bushmiller didn’t draw A tree, A house, A car. Oh, no. Ernie Bushmiller drew THE tree, THE house, THE car. Much has been made of the “three rocks.” Art Spiegelman explains how a drawing of three rocks in a background scene was Ernie’s way of showing us there were some rocks in the background. It was always three. Why? Because two rocks wouldn’t be “some rocks.” Two rocks would be a pair of rocks. And four rocks was unacceptable because four rocks would indicate “some rocks” BUT IT WOULD BE ONE ROCK MORE THAN WAS NECESSARY TO CONVEY THE IDEA OF “SOME ROCKS.”

(http://www.scottmccloud.com/inventions/nancy/nancy.html)