Blog Post Categories

There are a lot of posts here, on all sorts of subjects. To help you get the most out of this blog, I have divided the posts into a variety of categories. Click on the categories below to take you there.
  • Art Education - Posts about artists, events and art news to help your education as an artist. These are informative posts that broaden your horizons and expand your art knowledge
  • Art Tips - Downloads to print out, educational tutorials to improve your skills, and drawing lessons. 
  • Arts and the Law - Posts about legal issues that affect your rights and ability to create and consume entertainment, be it music, books, movies, or even the Internet
  • Books - Posts reviewing interesting books, the book world, and issues surrounding books
  • Comics Review - Reviews of cartoonists, graphic novels, books and artists
  • Consumer Freedom - Issues that affect you as aconsumer, from stores spying on you to the corruption of polictics by huge corporation that limit your rights
  • Disney - Posts with my photos from visits to Disneyworld in Orlando
  • Downloads Helpful reference pages to download and print out, to help you advance your skills.  Create your own art instruction guide with these handy downloads
  • Dragoncon - Lots of pictures (and a podcast), and information about Dragoncon, the second largest costuming and comic book convention in the country
  • Events - Pictures and posts about events I've participated in, and art-related events
  • Everything Else - Posts that don't directly relate to cartooning and drawing but are fun anyway. You never know what you'll find in this category!
  • Found Slides, A Life Remembered - By chance I bought a vintage slide projector which had eighty color slides of two families from the 1950s. My quest to identify the families and return the slides became a big news story and the inspiration for my forthcoming graphic novel, a two part series
  • Journal Entry - Entries from journals I have kept about some of my more interesting experiences, mostly from my time living in New York, and my travels around Europe
  • Movies - Posts about noteworthy movies, movie stars, and movie-related issues
  • Our Surveillance State: Your Rights At Risk - The leaks of classified documents has revealed a grossly out if control system of spying and evesdropping on American and foreign citizens alike. Your rights are being violated with no oversight whatsoever. Know your rights, and help defend them, or you may find you no longer have them
  • Photo Essays - These are photographs that tell a story about a particular event, and include my journal entries that accompany the pictures
  • Photographer's Rights - Posts about the legal rights photographers have, how to protect them, and the threats people with cameras face
  • Photography - My photography of places and events (separate from the Star Wars category)
  • Podcasts - Just what it says; originally produced podcasts about Dragoncon 
  • Protecting Freedom - Posts about threats to artists' ability to express themselves, something all artists should be concerned about. Stay informed, know your rights, or someone else will dictate them. To read Magnum Arts' position on freedom of expression, click HERE.
  • Rube Goldberg - Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who would draw ridiculously complicated contraptions to accomplish the simplest tasks. Rube Goldberg machines are amazing collections of items that interact with each other to perform a simple task, and people spend a lot of time building them!
  • Star Wars - Posts about 501st Legion events in which I've participated in costume. The 501st Legion is a global Star Wars costuming organization
  • Student Artwork - Posts with examples of art created by my students they have allowed me to share
  • Technology - Posts about legal and cultural issues surrounding technology
  • The Beach - Photographs I've taken of the beaches on the Gulf of Mexico
  • The Best Of Magnum Arts - These are the best, and most popular posts on this blog, the posts which really stand out for photography, commentary and popularity
  • The TK Project - Documenting the process of constructing movie-accurate Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper armor to wear at 501st Legion events
  • Videos - Fun videos to check out. Settle back and nuke some popcorn!
  • Video Games - Posts about video games, which have become an art form in their own right