Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil Lire et Comprendre le Coran, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (tr. Tayeb Chouiref) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks A Frolic of His Own, William Gaddis [gave up about halfway through but might give it another shot] The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (reread) Smoo 9, Simon Moreton […]
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comicsworkbook: Comics Workbook Magazine #8 is available now from Copacetic Comics. This issue features an interview with Sanita Muižniece and David Schilter of kuš! by Laila Milevski and a cover photo by Zach Mason. We also have the essay Alone in a Crowd: A Close Look at Julie Doucet’s “The Double” by Daryl Seitchik, an […]
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Yesterday I made a PDF of about 160 pages selected from most of my sketchbooks over the past four years. You can download it here if you’d like.
May
The Secret History, Donna Tartt Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life, Julia Frey Fat Skeletons, Ursule Molinaro Robert Rauschenberg, Catherine Craft Georgia O’Keeffe: An Eternal Spirit, Susan Wright Pope Hats 4, Ethan Rilly Optic Nerve 14, Adrian Tomine Cosplayers 2, Dash Shaw
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Hi, it’s Andrew. I’m back on my Tumblr again. I tagged all of Kimball Anderson’s writing about my work in the past week if you want to read it. I was very flattered by Kimball’s insights. Here are some in-progress tidbits from the story I’m working on now.
Hi Kimball! As our Tumblr exchange week draws to a close, I have a few questions. First, do you think my writing will have any effect on your work going forward? (I know that’s the case for your writing on me!) Is there anything that surprised you, or anything I overlooked that you wish I had discussed? Conversely, did you have any surprises or unexpected insights through the writing you did about my work? Any other concluding comments? I look forward to your thoughts. – Andrew
Hmm, I have been left thinking about a couple of things! Autobiography and the perception of it is in there. I haven’t really thought enough about that, maybe. I usually feel like I do comics about experience, and experience is experience, I guess. But the idea of whether it’s fiction or nonfiction does seem like […]
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comicsworkbook: Andrew White “shattered glass” Made for Comics Workbook Another piece that feels a little bit Craghead inspired! Here we have the text right in the middle. And here we have a lot less clear text. It’s not emotionally driven, exactly, nor is it telling a story or responding to the representational details. What I’d argue […]
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comicsworkbook: Andrew White “Swirling” Made for Comics Workbook A kinetic page, where White seems to be working faster and with sharper lines. This page has the text serving to recontextualize the images that came before it. The images go from having lots of force, to having almost an alienation to the character, to a melancholy. It […]
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comicsworkbook: Andrew White “Fluorescence” Made for Comics Workbook Thinking about Andrew White’s text and how it relates to his images today. Here we see one panel with text, and how it informs and brings focus to the subsequent panels. It suggests a mindset in response to continuous, monotonous stimuli. Irritation, maybe. The first panel, by being […]
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comicsworkbook: Andrew White “Evening Falls” Made for Comics Workbook I enjoy the pieces where White’s style is influenced by Warren Craghead and Simon Moreton (this one clearly more by Craghead). It seems that White’s natural hand for drawing fits very neatly into the style and it leads to very impactful and purposeful panels, but it also […]