Making Comics

A quarter-century ago, when I lived in Mexico and had the chance to observe the creatures up close, I concocted a Kafkaesque cartoon called "The Adventures of Bombardier Beetle." The project amounted to nothing, owing to my more than primitive drawing skills, but one day I mean to revive it. When I do, I'll owe it to Scott McBride's excellent how-to book Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels.