madeleinewitt: OPEN SUBMISSIONS NOW for an anthology of poetry comics made by and for people processing impending ecological disaster. There is a need for art that answers the pain of the anthropocene. This anthology will be a place to collectively confront the horror of a warming world: to mourn or dream or rage; to offer words of […]
Andrew White | from INK BRICK no. 8
inkbrick: A page from Andrew White’s piece in INK BRICK no. 8, our special issue out this fall. Help us crowdfund the special issue on Kickstarter!
January
I posted a comic on January 20th. An outpouring, an ode to the never-ending beauty of a scribble, the first of many attempts to say something about our immediate concerns while also remaining committed to other avenues of making it through. I also have a comic in the special issue of Inkbrick, for which a […]
December
The Sellout, Paul Beatty Treehouse of Horror #15, ed. Sammy Harkham Endless Monsoon 1-2, Sarah Welch – Really good, highly recommended. One of a few sight-unseen RIPE discoveries. Finding new work in that way is a very singular pleasure. – Some thoughts, after a period of reflection, on things I read this year: Uptight 5 […]
October – November
Monster (2016 reprint of 2010 edition), ed. Paul Lyons Altcomics Magazine #3, ed. Sab Maynert Love and Rockets Vol. 4 #1, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez – Wanted to get this since I missed out on previous L&R number ones, but now I’ll go back to the softcover compilations. Recent Glibert is too hit and miss […]
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Read and Erase Drawing Notes One last process post for those interested…I drew For Lives with my left (non-dominant) hand. I tried to do so again for Read, but for reasons I don’t understand it didn’t feel right after about a dozen drawings. Weird! At the time it was frustrating, but maybe it’s a good […]
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Read and Erase Research Notes I really enjoyed the research process for this project, so I thought it might be interesting to write about it. I spent about two months, alongside other projects, reading the books referenced on the back cover of Read and Erase as well as other books not mentioned there because they […]
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Some of the early building blocks for Muscle Memory, my recent collaborative comic with Kimball Anderson. We both did drawings based off text and rough layouts from Kimball, following an initial discussion about some of the themes we hoped to address. Then we worked together to collage the elements into a single piece that hopefully […]
Read and Erase Photo Glossary
I intended to include this list in the comic itself, but I ran out of space. In order, the photographs that appear in Read and Erase are: Clouds on pages 2, 4, 10: Public domain material from New York Public Library Digital Collections. I didn’t keep a record of the specific photos I used. Page […]