It’s been just over a month since the submission of four years of work, and to reward myself I spent most of that time preparing…
I’m writing this in horizontal repose, finally free of stress and watching my body succumb to the rigours of an overwhelming deadline after weeks of…
It’s been exactly four months since my last post, and I owe it to myself to get back on track with posting again. So,…
I’ve emailed Henry Rollins, and the management of Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Rodriguez and Ben Lee asking for permission to use their lyrics…
In The System of Comics (2009) Thierry Groensteen uses the term Spatiotopia to refer to comics’ system of structures that sit within each other working independently and interdependently….
Draft 2 changes for the day. Wow. It’s not much, really, is it? What am I actually doing with my time? I don’t even…
I’ve been lucky enough to give a host quite a few workshops at libraries and such over the last couple of years. Pretty cool…
Watching Kim Jung Gi’s live drawing demonstrations gave me permission to draw in my sketchbook directly with ink pen. No planning, straight-ahead drawing, allowing the theme…
Eddie Campbell is one of those prolific and ridiculously proficient artists who for some reason are not living in a golden castle on top of…
After much fuggerizing around I’ve finally managed to upload a PDF of the 2014 Diary Comics that Ingram Spark didn’t spit back at me….
After consulting with my supervisor Andi Spark and after feedback from my mother-in-law Doris, I am going over the pages I’ve completed so far…
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…
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…
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…
Here are some storyboards I put together for a student film. I was strapped for time with this and used photos and reference images…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 of…
A day trip to Emden, North Germany. I really need to practice more at drawing water.
I have lived for almost four years with a German Fraulein, and undertaken six trips to her homeland. It has been a gruelling journey…
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 of human…
In the space of comics the typeset letter quivers with the voice of the drawing hand, the referent…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…