The download section of our site hasn’t been updated recently due to an over-abundance of things to do outside of the realm of shameless self-promotion. However, it seems that the downloads are still kicking up web traffic, via hdw.eweb4.com/, an online desktop download location. Seems that some of the first of our desktop downloads made the list, but a few of our favorites were missing, so we’re scratching our heads.

- AC

Scott McCloud is a personal hero of mine. When I was 12 I wrote him a letter explaining how awesome he was.

He wrote me back. By hand. He’s a classy, classy guy.

I was introduced to Henri Matisse at age 5 while participating in one of my Grandmother’s high school art classes, which I attended during my days off from preschool.

After she presented a particular artist, the high school students were asked to produce their own work based on the style and manner of the artist discussed. I made a nice little beach scene, cut out freehand from construction paper.

Once I returned home, little bits of cut construction paper in hand, I turned them over to my parents, explained their meaning and assembled them on the dining room table. I remember this sequence of events very clearly, even 25 years later.

The bits of paper were then made into screens for screen printing, from which a single shirt was produced. It was the very first time in my life that I connected art with commerce. It was also the very first time that I argued about the colors being off on the final print; a problem that secretly bothers me, even to this day.