Here is part two. In the meantime, Leonard is progressing the background and I will write about that next.
Just so you know, I am not currently wearing pyjamas. (Clarifying. I am wearing clothes!)
Wet Weekend (part 2)
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Wet Weekend
Yes, last weekend was sublimely sunny. A perfect summer weekend. But here, our experience had rather a wet theme.
This was how it began.
To be continued…?
I will say this though. This morning started in a very similar way. Me in pyjamas answering a knocking at the front door. But this morning it was a school morning, I had slept through the alarm, and the kids were due to leave for school in 15 minutes.
Comics seemed the only way to express my feelings for the way our weekend went.
Nicki Greenberg and other comics stars
This is Nicki’s gorgeous new web site, which shows off her breadth of work. Her graphic novels and comics work are particularly strong. I just love this piece Comic Fatigue. (Postmodern or just Loony Tunes madness? …Or was Loony Tunes a form of postmodernism?) And I really, really loved her graphic novels The Great Gatsby and Hamlet.
I’m often drawn to the idea of doing a graphic novel… but then I look again and imagine drawing all those pages, doing all that very difficult composition and hardest of all CHARACTER CONTINUITY x one billion! …And then I change my mind. Hats off to all you amazing graphic novelists. You are awe inspiring.
While I’m on the subject, if any of you out there are crazy enough… Oops, I mean spirited and passionate and motivated enough to want to launch into comics, I can highly recommend Scott McCloud‘s books Understanding Comics and Making Comics as a brilliant starting point.
For further inspiration on art, writing, comics and perhaps life… try reading What it is, by Lynda Barry.
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