Just a barefoot artist in search of the meaning of life.
Here is a follow-up on a 5-page comic that will appear in the first full-length issue of Pop Culture Super-Sleuth, which will debut at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. I will post more as time allows and when it makes sense. In fact, I really should do more of these work-in-progress posts.
The artist in awe of art. That’s a good place to be.
These little sneak peeks into the artist’s studio are something I perhaps can take too much for granted. My whole life is made up of countless sneak peeks, full-on peeks and endless peeks that my peepers need to take a rest. There are so many details that go into creating a fully-realized and credible work of comics. I’m not kidding. A lot of it has to do with seeing. You look at what you’re doing over and over again. You set it down. You look away. And then you look at it again in your mind’s eye.
One artist helps the other and the process keeps evolving.
I have been developing some ideas on how I might best describe the comics-making process at length. And, as I’ve found over the years, jotting down my collected thoughts here on the blog to share with you is always helpful and very satisfying. I find that the specific subject of “comics” is a tricky subject sometimes to relate to a general audience as I wonder what can get lost in translation, so to speak. But, believe me, it is, and always will be, the vast general audience that will remain the greatest and best hope for comics.
The magical world of comics.
Alright, here’s a finished page. What do you think? I think it has the razzle dazzle and X-factor that I’m always looking for. Somehow, everything manages to fall into place. It all hangs together very well: the composition; just the right amount of text; all the way down to color choices. People sometimes will ask me if something gets lost when you boil it down to a crisp and concise piece of visual storytelling. And the answer to that is that the very purpose and nature of graphic work is to bring out what is most meaningful. So, you don’t lose anything. You gain a way to see a subject in a much deeper and clear way.
