Here’s a short illustrated story for you: Steve Lieber is a comic book artist. He drew Underground, a graphic novel (written by Jeff Parker, drawn by Steve, and colored by Ron Chan).  The story follows Park Ranger Wesley Fischer as she tries to save Stillwater Cave – and then has to save herself. On Sunday [...]

Software costs money.  Actually that’s not true – there’s plenty of free software out there for artists, and the ones detailed below are just as good as the expensive versions. Browsers Web browsers are usually free (or their costs are “hidden” within the cost for the operating system, as is the case with Microsoft’s Internet [...]

Those of you that venture beyond this blog to other parts of this website will probably know I’m currently working on a limited edition series of handmade artists books. In this post I want to show how all the elements of this website will work together to help promote this new artwork, and a possible [...]

Freeconomics took another step into the mainstream this week, as Multiplatinum-selling pop group McFly announced they would be giving away their new CD with The Mail On Sunday on July 20th. Now, in terms of brands that combination is enough to make me vomit (I hate McFly and I hate the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday‘s [...]

I’ve seen a lot of artist’s websites with fierce and furious demands not to “steal” their artwork (by which they mean the small digital reproductions of their artwork), insulting visitors before they’ve even begun to explore a website. I’ve seen those annoying cut-and-paste JavaScripts to attempt to disable the right-click functionality (as well as a [...]