http://blog.dootdootgarden.com The blog of Craig Thompson Sun, 11 May 2008 05:29:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally, the fourth chapter is finished. It took six and a half months, but it's over a hundred pages long -- begun on October 20th, after returning from tour with Menomena -- and completed on May 8th, a couple of weeks after Stumptown Comics Fest. In between, there were a handful ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/05/10/day-night/ http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/04/30/183/ My brother Phil and his wife Ami just visited for a week. No pee-fights this time around, though in our last couple of hours together we did collaborate on a jam comic. It stars characters crafted by my brother in our childhood - Sockman, Detective Skelly, Robot Egg, and Ninja Thrasher! ( ~ ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/04/19/sockmans-salvation/ While this box of BLANKETS roughs is still unpacked, here's a few more things... 1) a couple of thumbnails for a cover idea... 2) ... doodled on the back of this ROBOX script - one of the gazillions of bill-paying jobs I worked on to fund BLANKETS ... 3) ... the final ROBOX ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/04/08/cuddle-doodles/ When I woke this morning to snowfall in Portland - fat, fluffy flakes in the midst of our flowery spring - it seemed the right time to update the blog. Your outpouring of support concerning HABIBI process/progress has certainly buoyed my spirits. aww shucks Thank you! So with your blessings, I plow ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/03/28/race-car-driver/ 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 ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/03/14/sex-drugs/ Jeff Smith invited me to participate as guest-blogger in a forum discussing the '90s self-publishing movement in comics and how it affected me. Here's what I came up with: BONE got me reading comics again. In high school, I'd rejected the nerdy obsessions of my youth (comics, toys, rpgs) and replaced them with ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/03/01/generation-xeric/ Thanks, as ever, to all of you for the kind words! Tristan, I'm not making it to WonderCon (has it already happened?), nor will I be signing at Booksmith in SF, Jessalyne. The promo dates on my website are all a couple of years old! (Brother Phil will amend that...) I've been reluctant ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/02/21/eat-burn-sprout/ pardon my lag... distracted with side projects lately, including this collaboration with poster-king Mike King for the upcoming Stumptown Comics Fest. Stumptown is a bit like camp reunion when many of my cartoonist friends roll into town. Here some sketch portraits of one said reunion last year -- Gabrielle Bell... -- and Trevor ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/02/07/je-suis-en-retard/ Recently, Yana wrote with a few questions about the construction process for CARNET DE VOYAGE. She asks, "...you say that it is more on-the-spot then your other carefully constructed books but just how on-the-spot was it? How much of the imagery in the novel was actually done on site? Or was most ... http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2008/01/13/constructing-carnet/