
| leaf through | November 9th, 2008 |
Often I worry I draw too small and confined. Compare these recent panels with a brush, my hand, an autumn leaf.
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| need | October 21st, 2008 |
Thank you continually for all the comments and support. I disagree with the sentiment from this recent HABIBI panel below.
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| this morning | October 2nd, 2008 |
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| summer’s gonna turn into fall | August 24th, 2008 |
Summers are always a bit chaotic, but I apologize for neglecting blog posting.
And below is recent documentation of my rural adventures visiting my sister in Nebraska — paired with an old doodle from my
Please note that I don’t wear a helmet while drawing or in everyday life. Posted in Habibi | 18 Comments »
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| quick scribble | July 17th, 2008 |
I took a couple of days off when my buddy Alessandro visited from Italy. Here’s a doodle from a front porch conversation:
And here’s a little jumble of chapter five progress. It’s coming along!
Thanks, as usual, for the blog comments. And on that last round, lots of useful self-preservation tips. |
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| shoveling away | June 21st, 2008 |
All my favorite pages of HABIBI are too spoiler-ish to share, … 3) the earliest stage of penciling … 4) note how I flipped the first two panels to flow better …
PS — for those of you interested in production details, check my old tool talk posting. Posted in Habibi | 22 Comments »
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| comics vs sketchbook | June 11th, 2008 |
Quick follow-up to that last entry. Peter asked how big the sketchbook pages are. They’re 9″ x 12″.
Because the sketches are drawn from life with plenty of space on the page, it’s easy to dash them off with pocketbrush.
Anyways, this HABIBI page was drawn today. And the sketch above is of my friend Kathleen at Benoît Peeter’s apartment in Paris. |
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| day & night | May 10th, 2008 |
Finally, the fourth chapter is finished.
I’ll try to attend to comment/questions soon. In the meantime, Tita and other Netherlanders should know I won’t be at Stripdagen Haarlem this year. It seems they’re showing a documentary or something that includes embarrassing footage of me. As always, thank you all for your kind words. They really keep me going! Posted in Habibi | 30 Comments »
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| … | April 30th, 2008 |
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| sex & drugs | March 14th, 2008 |
Here’s page 250-something of HABIBI, along with photos of poppies from my backyard (lush Portland).
And here’s some of the sprawl of pages from chapter four. As alluded to in the last blog entry, working on a graphic novel can be tedious, isolating, and ridiculous. In terms of PROCESS, it’s probably not the brightest way to produce comics, because several years pass before a creator has new work on the shelves. It seems like all the “with-it youngsters” serialize their books online, sometimes in daily installments; but as a reader, I crave a self-contained reading experience, and intermissions of my own choosing. Half the pleasure of a book is reading it at your own pace. I’m resistant to serialization — and of disposable formats like the “pamphlet comic” and magazines and newspapers. There’s enough trees being sacrificed. Maybe the true issue is the length of a comic book. If only page 250 was the final page of HABIBI, instead of a little more than a third the way through. What do you think? I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m ever grateful to all of you for your patience! Posted in Habibi | 61 Comments »
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