“Drawn in 1991. The orignal is pretty small–4 inches by 5 inches, drawn with a magic marker. I remember it was one of the few things at the time (I was 19 yrs old) which I drew and liked. Inspired by Chester Brown’s version of the Gnostic Gospel story in which Jesus splits into two […]
Month: April 2011
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I don’t know much about Felix Vallotton, but his woodcuts are incredibly composed. Great use of black that reminds me of Jaime Hernandez’s work.
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The first page of Blutch’s Vitesse Moderne. I feel like this might be him showing off a little – “Come on, give me a building, any building. I’ll draw it better than you ever could!”
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Writing lists is fun, and I decided on a whim to write up some convention panels that I would organize if I had the power to do that sort of thing. I allowed myself access to any creator who might conceivably attend an American comic convention (so Steve Ditko is off limits, for instance), and […]
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It always surprises me how few people outside of Europe have heard of Swiss cartoonist Zep. His most well known work by far is Titeuf, a page from which is shown above. I would say that it’s probably behind only Asterix and Tintin in terms of name recognition among the general public in French-speaking Europe […]
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That’s me carefully examining the entirety of the original art for Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt’s second Corto Maltese adventure, Ballad of the Salt Sea (you can’t see all of it in the photo, of course) as presented at the Pinacotheque museum in Paris, France. It was pretty great. I will hopefully get around to writing […]
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Perhaps you have already heard of Sam Hiti’s Death Day. If not, you should check it out because it is a really good comic. Anyways, I wanted to talk for a second about Hiti’s brushwork, because I think it’s one of the most interesting and notable aspects of his cartooning. His thick line is deceptively […]