Um, off the top of my head…I like how people have been talking about criticism lately. That’s interesting, except when it’s boring and frustrating. I like micropublishers a lot. I like pamphlet comics and serialization. I dislike Kickstarters that don’t provide line item descriptions of how the money will be spent, though I guess I […]
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What did you consider most important in your own work starting out? And have you, since then, shifted priorities?
I mean, not that time has elapsed between now and when I was starting out. This probably sounds like a typical cartoonist humblebrag, but I’m young! I feel like I’m still starting out! Anyways, to my memory I focused on straightforward things like drawing well and figuring out the basic mechanics of comics like panel-to-panel […]
What tools are currently using to create comics?
At the moment I draw straight to ink with Pentel brush pens dipped into this ink or Microns. Tracing paper and some lightboxing instead of penciling on bristol. Though I do a tiny bit of underdrawing in red mechanical pencil when necessary (trying to shed that), and I still use bristol when I’m doing inkwashes or something and […]
Not that it’s a strictly binary proposition, but when it comes to your personal work, what’s your ideal balance between literary comics and art/experimentally rendered comics?
I’ve started answering this question in a half dozen different ways. How about this, which I think is sort of true: I want to tell stories in service of abstract/experimental sequences and use abstraction and formal experimentation in service of stories.
Why comics?
I have lots of thoughts about why comics is really great and interesting as a medium, but it’s not like I ever sat down and made a pro/con list of comics versus art/writing/whatever else I might have decided to pursue creatively. I think, more than anything else, it is just that making comics seemed more […]
Responding to your last post, what is it about Pope that has made him, as a cartoonist, fall out of favor with you?
He’s a better artist than he is a writer, and that just appeals less to my tastes than it once did even though his brushwork is just as slick and appealing as always. THB (or what that I’ve read of it) is still great for what it is, and Heavy Liquid/100% have their moments. I […]
what cartoonists are your favourite cartoonists
Newish discoveries: Fabrice Neaud, Olivier Schrauwen, Seiichi Hayashi, Inio Asano Perennial favorites: Takehiko Inoue, Mitsuru Adachi, Taiyo Matsumoto, Ai Yazawa, CLAMP, Yumi Hotta/Takeshi Obata, Sammy Harkham, Jordan Crane, Ethan Rilly, Team Weird, Frank Santoro, Aidan Koch, Jason Overby, Angie Wang, Brandon Graham, Kevin Huizenga, Jaime Hernandez Fallen out of favor, at least for now: Bastien […]
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http://whitecomics.tumblr.com/writing Here’s an index of the writing about comics that I’ve been doing lately, both on my tumblr and for Comics Workbook. I think a few of these posts came out well, so I’d hate for them to get lost in the endless scroll of your Dashboard or the less-than-ideal archive of Comics Workbook.