As a “bonus feature” to my recent post about doing improv comics from live models, here’s my comic based on the four poses from last summer’s session: I snuck quick pencils sketches of each pose in between circulating among the students. A few months later I inked it and added some text taken at random […]
Famous Artists Cartoun Pantoum
My comics pantoum experiments continue with this appropriated pantoum using instructional panels by an uncredited artist.
Obstacle Course gets the Alison Bechdel stamp of approval!
(panel from a comic by SVA senior Maggie Siegel-Berele) Alison just blogged about my Obstacle Course and about a comic I sent her by one of my students who mashed up Dykes to Watch Out For and The Flash. The MoCCA 4-session version of this course begins this Monday, February 28. Please note that there […]
10 Variations: an Obstacle Course preview
I had great success trying out a classic Oulipian exercise with my cartooning students at SVA, and I’ll likely do some version of it at my upcoming MoCCA Obstacle Course workshop
Belles Étrangères, the documentary
Back in November 2009 I was invited to France to tour with 11 other American authors for a few weeks as guests of an annual festival called Belles Étrangères. (I blogged about it here and here.) Part of the program was a documentary they filmed about all of us in the US during the summer […]
An article about Oubapo on WSJ.com
Etienne Lécroart interviewed about Oubapo The Wall Street Journal online edition did an article about Oubapo here.
ROYGBIV: a one-page comic challenge
I was recently invited to Belfort, a city in the east of France, to present 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style and to give an Oubapo workshop to art school students. I devised for the workshop, very much at the last minute, a brand new constraint which I call ROYGBIV.
Tic Tac Toe Jam–a new jam comic constraint, for two players
I’d been kicking around an idea for a jam comic based on the game of tic tac toe. Recently I invited Tom Hart to meet up with me at a café before class at SVA and give it a try.
Check out examples of my students’ constraint-based comics
I’d like to share a sampling of amusing and occasionally astounding work done by students of mine using constraints.
Unhappy Catalog Living
Though hard to explain to visitors, their dedication to minimalism precluded ablutions and eliminations, so the bath was moved to the basement. (photo and caption from Unhappy Hipsters; Photo: Uncredited; Dwell) There are now two blogs out there that add narrative captions to catalog or magazine photos. An early (1995) comic of mine did something […]