Equilibrium
Drawing a page on the Cintiq again after a few weeks away. Focusing on attitude and body language. And a timelapse of the process, if you’re… Read More »Equilibrium
DCFisher
Hand to eye
When watching television or movie, even the most mediocre of offerings, the enthusiastic artist, I’ve found, can keep the pen moving and the hand to… Read More »Hand to eye
Writer-artist/Artist-writer?
This panel is from American cartoonist Joe Matt, taken from his collection of comic strips Peepshow. As a cartoonist/practitioner in autobio comics, there is a constant… Read More »Writer-artist/Artist-writer?
Gone
Here are some storyboards I put together for a student film. I was strapped for time with this and used photos and reference images directly… Read More »Gone
10,000 hours
There’s an adage that 10,000 hours of practice is what’s required to become a master. While that is more of an incentive for persistence than… Read More »10,000 hours
Interpreting
Following on from the last post and still using the cover of Action Comics #1, here I’ll investigate different modes of interpretation. Formalist reading. What are… Read More »Interpreting
Describing
Traditional art writing and critique can be broken down into a system of steps, including describing. The description is crucial because it draws attention to… Read More »Describing
Triangle of Representation
Scott McCloud’s Triangle of Representation (Understanding Comics, 1993, 52) lends a non-linear sliding scale of representation that might be used to assign values to an… Read More »Triangle of Representation
Sign of a sign of a sign
Here’s something interesting. Jonathan Culler in his book Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction says: Traditionally, Western philosophy has distinguished “reality” from “appearance,” things themselves from representations… Read More »Sign of a sign of a sign
Ethnography in practice
I have lived for almost four years with a German Fraulein, and undertaken six trips to her homeland. It has been a gruelling journey with… Read More »Ethnography in practice
Autoethnography
What is Autoethnography? According to Dictionary.com, it’s a Noun. Yay research. Wikipedia goes on to say that: “In its early guises Autoethnographies were insider accounts… Read More »Autoethnography
Engage
Reader engagement. How to obtain it, how to maintain it? The late Marlon Brando* says, in referring to his Academy Award nomination for On The… Read More »Engage
Elastic Medium
In the space of comics the typeset letter quivers with the voice of the drawing hand, the referent of the written word becomes rubbery and… Read More »Elastic Medium
Logocentric
“Logocentrism” was coined by the German philosopher Ludwig Klages in the 1920s and refers to the tradition that regards words and language as a fundamentally important record of… Read More »Logocentric
The Lonely Cartoonist
Douglas Wolk in his book Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels work, “whereas the great majority of mainstream comics are made by teams of writers and artists,… Read More »The Lonely Cartoonist
The Ol’ German catchup
I’m sitting in a section of a very old farmhouse in North-West Germany called Ostfriesland and finally have the time and brain capacity to catch… Read More »The Ol’ German catchup
The hump
I’m at the stage of the graphic novel that I’m referring to as the hump. The big, horrible, hump. I’ve turned 15679 of a total… Read More »The hump
Flu commentary
If you’ve always, ever since you were a tiny kipper, desperately wanted to hear someone battling with Man-Flu talking about their work making comics, then… Read More »Flu commentary
Man Flu
I felt a scratching in my throat on the opening of Paul Cleveland’s Sins of Academia exhibition on Friday. Woke up on Saturday feeling decidedly… Read More »Man Flu
Mirroring
Mirroring and repetition; whether it be with image, or text, or metaphor, or motif, is a powerful tool. It reinforces meaning, draws attention to itself, and acts… Read More »Mirroring
Hackey sack
This page harks back to enjoyable group activities back in the days. Hackey sack- a university cliché for good reason. Far more beneficial for exercise… Read More »Hackey sack
Character
This is one of the first scenes where I’m digging a little deeper into one of the supporting characters. The dialogue is still clunky, and… Read More »Character
Static momentum
Scott Bukatman, in his essay Sculpture, Stasis and Hellboy found within Critical Inquiry, Comics and Media (Chute & Jagoda 2014), ponders on the ideas of connection,… Read More »Static momentum
The red pill
More drawing like a madman, recording and adding commentary. This one goes for six minutes. My voice is like warm butter. Enjoy.
3 minute bender
I’m really getting into these screen captures. The process of recording my drawing has become quite natural, which is odd when I remember the first times… Read More »3 minute bender
Half target
Day one of my ten page a day goal is off to an uninspired start. Five pages, though pretty good, is only half the target.… Read More »Half target
Fast and loose
I have the next four and a half days for drawing. Aiming for ten pages a day. Should be possible!
Drawing is a way of thinking
Working on aspect to aspect transitions again. I originally had this scripted: Upon drawing the scene out thought I had two intentions. One, to show… Read More »Drawing is a way of thinking
Keep Rollin’
Following on from the previous entries where I emailed Henry Rollins’ management about the use of some of his text and image in my autofictographic… Read More »Keep Rollin’