With the sheltering in place, I’ve been taking time to organize things. The other day I went through a bunch of old drawings and comics work and saw a few things I hadn’t thought about in years. Here are a few.
With everyone sheltering in place, it’s been a time to share recommendations. A long time ago, I had the idea of posting something weekly about online comics that I was discovering. For various reasons, I never did and a lot of those old links are either dead or lost. But I have a few more recent ones that I’ve saved, …
Slowly, but surely… https://tapas.io/episode/1684187
I was really into Holbein Special Black drawing ink. It was smooth, black, and created nice thin lines. But then I was out and the local store I was buying it from didn’t have it. I looked on-line and couldn’t find it anywhere either. Yet what I did discover was that Holbein made an acrylic ink. I had somehow formed …
As I mentioned, I have been posting over on Instagram about graphic novels and comics in my library. Here’s a list of what I’ve discussed this first month. The Minotaur’s Tale by Al Davison Kling Klang Klatch by Ian McDonald and David Lyttleton Orchid by T. Edward Bak, Gabrielle Bell, Ben Catmull, Kevin Huizenga, David Lasky, Lark Pien, Jessie Reklaw, …
Moving makes you realize how many books you have. I’ve been reading comics since about sixth grade. I haven’t kept absolutely everything I’ve ever bought, but I have a lot of it. And most of this stuff is not in print anymore. I keep thinking that I should donate it all to a library or start one of my own. …
2019 The Lost Cause of Poetry came out. The digital version came out in September. “Lounger” was released on Tapas. Then later I also released it on Webtoon. Tony Ez Esmond wrote a review of “Defrost” on Never Iron Anything! I went to both TCAF and VanCAF one weekend after the other. I started to do Inktober this …
Alay-Oop, William Gropper NYRB reprinted this book this year, but it was originally published in 1930, the year after Lynd Ward’s God’s Man and the same year as Otto Nuckel’s Destiny and Milt Gross’s He Done Her Wrong. So it comes out of that tradition of one-image-per-page wordless books. Alay-Oop is a love story that begins in a circus, but …