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May 2024 update

I haven’t posted here for awhile. Mostly, I’ve just been busy with my paying jobs. But, as I’ve said earlier, I’ve been having trouble completing comics projects. Case in point: I have given up on Slough and Stair. Yet, that doesn’t mean that I’ve given up entirely. Basically, my new approach is to start a lot of projects at once. What that means is that I’m in the planning stages on multiple…

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20 Years Ago: Litmus Test 13

In October of 1996, I put out the first issue of my title Litmus Test. It was my early place to explore comics and try out ideas. Eventually, I wanted to create longer works and move away from photocopied minis. So in February of 2004, I put out my final issue of Litmus Test, issue 13. Since it was the final issue and maybe the last time I’d be hand-assembling my own books, I got a unique paper…

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new article surveying my comics work

Ryan Carey has written a long article about my comics work, focusing on especially on my books. It’s titled “All the Time in the World – Except When There Isn’t: The Comics Work of Nick Mullins” and it’s in the second issue of Canon Zine by Colin Blanchette. If you’re interested in comics, I recommend you get both issues of Canon. It’s a great zine and will introduce you to new work and give you…

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20th Anniversary of Kit Kaleidoscope Goes to the Masked Ball

20th Anniversary of Kit Kaleidoscope Goes to the Masked Ball

I was looking through some old files and realized that the mini of Kit Kaleidoscope Goes to the Masked Ball came out in 2000, twenty years ago. So I thought I’d do a few things in honor of this anniversary.

a free pdf of the original mini is available on Gumroad

the version on this site has larger images

the story is now also on Tapas

Because I am a compulsive archivist of my own history, I also…

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new Carnivale pages 175-179

new Carnivale pages 175-179

Yes, you read that right.

Back in April, I had an idea for how the sequence starting on page 175 of Carnivale should be revised. I had always felt that the original sequence was too small and short. But back in 2013 I was eager to finish the story, so I didn’t revise it. Well, seven years later I finally did.

Here it is…

What struck me as I went to do this was how much my pencilling…

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original Carnivale beginning

I started thumbnailing Carnivale: a Kit Kaleidoscope Storyin March of 2004. I got to work on the first finished page in August of 2005. Yet that original beginning didn’t feel right. I was trying too hard to force a Toulouse-LauTrec biography on Kit, having them use sex workers as art models. Upon reflection, I felt that it didn’t seem true to their character and the scene itself felt forced. So…

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