I’ve been working for a while—where I can find the time—on a series of comics based on the poetry form called the pantoum. You can read about the form and see an example I did using a comic by Tom Hart here. I’m at the point of inking an original 4-page comic called “Hiram Pantoum” […]
Variations on my improvised comic activity
Thanks to all of you who commented on my improvised comic activity. If you explore the comments you will find several links, including one that was just sent to me a few hours ago. After the jump, two variations on the activity that I found to be particularly fruitful. ©Isaac Cates and Michael Wenthe Isaac […]
Summer Intensive, the Last Day, Part 2: MoCCA visit with David Mazzucchelli
The Friday afternoon before MoCCA Art Festival our students were scrambling to get their comics finished up. Still, we made time to meet up at MoCCA after lunch, where David Mazzucchelli himself met us to give us a tour of his just-opened retrospective show, “Sounds and Pauses, the Comic Art of David Mazzucchelli,” curated by […]
Whole lotta tracing going on
page 23 of Drawn Onward click to enlarge
An Improvised Comic Activity
Here’s a tryout for an activity we’re considering including in volume 2 of DWWP. It’s a warm-up exercise whose goal is to activate your drawing and storytelling muscles at the same time. I’m not entirely sure how well it works so I would appreciate and comments on what follows. Better yet, if anyone is inspired […]
Summer Intensive, Day the Last, part one
So Summer Intensive has come to an end and tomorrow you can see (and buy!) the results. For now, just a few snapshots of students putting the final touches on their artwork… …and trimming their printed copies… …and getting feedback from David Mazzucchelli. We had a great visit to David’s show at MoCCA which I […]
Summer Intensive, Day Eight
Quiet day in the classroom on Thursday as students plowed away through their inks. A few stayed at home or only came in for part of the day so the room looked pretty deserted at times. Here are a few pages we haven’t seen much of yet since Stephanie has been doing a lot of […]
Summer Intensive, Day Seven: part one
We spent the first part of Wednesday inking. Most people were at least started on inks so we went down to the library on the 2nd floor and photocopied reductions of a few pages. There are two reasons to do this and I think they’re a crucial step in the process of finalizing your pages: […]
Summer Intensive, Day Six
Today’s class was mainly me moving from table to table and looking over people’s progress, trying to solve drawing problems, making sure everything reads smoothly, and looking ahead to inking. I did a very quick demo of nibs and brushes toward the end of class but I would have liked to have had much more […]
Summer Intensive, Day Five
A couple photos from Monday’s drafting tables: news and comics from the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style and other works