It’s my birthday today. Coincidentally, it’s also Lorenzo Mattotti’s birthday.
Okay, I’ll post this one too, since it ends the first attempt to get a job.
Happy New Year!
In this new year, I’d really like to finish Carnivale. This is not a promise, but an intention. A hope.
I haven’t been doing a lot of painting recently, but I did buy a new brush a few months ago and I just have to say how great it is. It’s a Princeton Neptune round size 8. I usually don’t get big brushes, but I was inspired by Lynda Barry’s Picture This. What’s amazing about this brush is that while it may be thick, it also has a fine point that’s very springy. So you can go from a wide wash to a fine line in a single stroke. And it really holds a lot of pigment. It’s just an amazing brush.
I’d post an example, but I’ve only painted little things and I’m not too happy with any of them. Just scrappy notebook stuff.
From Plato to Lumiére: Narration and Monstration in Literature in Cinema by André Gaudreault. Originally published in 1988, this book attempts to bridge literary, stage, and film narrative theory. Gaudreault is the one who coined the term “monstration,” so I felt I should read his book. So far, his style is very accessible. And he covers the main conflicts in narrative theory, especially as they apply to film, such as the debate over whether one can say if a film has a narrator or not. I’m hoping that his ideas will transfer over to comics.
Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling by Jared Gardner. I just received a Stanford University Press 2012 catalog and this book was in the beginning. It looks like this book isn’t just another history of comics, but is instead a look at how comics storytelling works and how it’s progress relates to the rise of the modern world. It looks interesting.
I am now going to get rid of the old version of “Defrost.” Also, I don’t think I’m going to post the rest of the revised pages.
