BTW, I and Dan Zettwoch will be at SPX. We should have 2 new Leon books. I'm hoping to have another new minicomic, if I can get it done in time. Also Ganges #4 will be out.
8/21/2011
SPX
BTW, I and Dan Zettwoch will be at SPX. We should have 2 new Leon books. I'm hoping to have another new minicomic, if I can get it done in time. Also Ganges #4 will be out.
8/17/2011
8/05/2011
8/03/2011
7/19/2011
7/04/2011
4 Kings on the 4th
Here are four political cartoons all drawn by Frank King in 1916. My understanding is that these were not necessarily his personal views (though they may have been) but were topics assigned by the editors of the Chicago Tribune. I don't really know how it worked back then.
7/01/2011
6/12/2011
6/09/2011
5/24/2011
5/20/2011
5/15/2011
Homage to King
I thought of my page in Kramers Ergot #7 as a homage to Frank King, who drew countless beautiful Sunday pages involving flying up and looking down on the landscape below. There are many examples just in the pages reprinted in the Drawn and Quarterly anthologies alone. I went to King's pages to see how to draw the landscape gracefully from above and was amazed at how many times he had his characters flying on Sunday.
Ganges #3 also is a kind of homage to the "daydreaming" Frank King pages (in both Bobby Make Believe and Gasoline Alley) with some Little Lulu love in the mix. That's how I thought of it, anyhow.
(crossposted to New Construction)
5/13/2011
Balloon
My strip "Balloon" from Kramers Ergot #7 (the oversized one, 2008) has been posted at What Things Do. You can double-click the image below to see a bigger size of the strip.
5/10/2011
5/06/2011
5/05/2011
5/03/2011
4/30/2011
4/18/2011
4/12/2011
4/11/2011
4/05/2011
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
My lettering was made into a font for Mizuki Shigeru's Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (read right to left):
--soon to be out from Drawn and Quarterly. I'm excited to be a part of this amazing book.
More on M. Shigeru here (on his war comics) and here (on one of his books that was published in French and that was a winner of the Angouleme Book of the Year in 2007).
More on M. Shigeru here (on his war comics) and here (on one of his books that was published in French and that was a winner of the Angouleme Book of the Year in 2007).
4/02/2011
3/20/2011
Supermoonster
2004
2001
(soon to be reprinted)
UPDATE:
Forgot about this one:
UPDATE:
Forgot about this one:
This is the French version of CURSES, published by Vertige Graphic in 2006 (I think).
I always regret how dark I made this cover. It looked fine on the screen, but it printed very dark. They warned me, but I didn't understand what they were saying. Very sorry about that.
3/10/2011
3/07/2011
3/05/2011
Good News for Hell Debate Fans
Working on my story "Jeepers Jacobs" gave me reason to read many defenses of Hell by theologians and preachers and other concerned parties. I became a big "fan" of this amazing genre.
Now I see the debate has flared up (!) again due to a forthcoming book by good ole Rob Bell (wiki), and dudes all over the internet are lining up for battle. I first heard about it today, here.
"A new book by one of the country’s most influential evangelical pastors, challenging traditional Christian views of heaven, hell and eternal damnation, has created an uproar among evangelical leaders, with the most ancient of questions being argued in a biblical hailstorm of Twitter messages and blog posts." (link)
There are a few links in that article, and then you can follow links in blogs and tweets further down the line if you're interested. I'm sure the same old arguments will get rehashed, the same verses--but what you should be looking for are mind-blowing sentences, several examples of which I used in "Jeepers":
Also calls to be spiritually strong (meaning logical, manly, punitive, uninquisitive), not weak (emotional, feminine). Also puns and witticisms in bad taste..."to hell with hell," "hell under fire," etc. Also the quick switches between metaphorical and literal ("eternal" is literal, "worm" is metaphorical, etc.).
(advertisement) "Jeepers Jacobs" appears in Kramers Ergot #5 and in my collection Curses, both of which are currently out of print, but you can probably find a copy somewhere if you search around. I know that Star Clipper here in STL has two Curses on the shelf, and I'm sure they'd be happy to sell you one.
"...and the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever." (Rev. 20:10)
3/04/2011
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