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It also came out looking way too design'ish. In retrospect I probably should have included some actual drawing, would have made it more fun to make as well.
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...even if it is just me cropping photos I found via google image search.
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I wanted to keep the subtle gradiations in the original ink, so I had to make two layers of lineart, one that I'd deleted all of the white from, which I used to control the color, and then a second one on top that controlled the value.
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edit: I'll admit i'm a little jelly, pittsburgh seems like the place to be for alt comics right now from Ed Piskor through Frank Santoro to Jim Rugg. You should check out copacetic comics as well, it's kind of a meeting place for some of those guys, but defo go to the comics salon.
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Comics don't have to take billions of years to make!
Firstly, all of this was drawn without sketching and so that's why I initially chose to make it only 3 panels per page, in case I screw up one drawing - not as in if it was badly drawn but if it just didn't feel like I wanted it to feel - I could just chuck the page and begin anew. I like the idea of using color to almost act like a soundtrack like in the page misc posted and that's kind of what I went for with the yellow pages that focus only on landscapes. To me when I put it there it felt like there's something like a constant tone being played or something. The scissor page was actually one of the last pages I did, because I didn't actually have a page there to begin with, but it kind of felt like the story needed a beat just to make it clear that something was being perpetrated. I was thinking of the scissor clip in Moonrise kingdom when I did that
Im thinking about making stupid poorly drawn comics when I cant sleep like I used to.
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e: also hi, i haven't made any comics since september. i need to do stuff this winter
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Anyways, I worked together with my friend Nilas on this comic for refugee children over the last weekend. We both wrote the story and he drew it while I colored it.
We spoke to Tom K. from Uncivlized books yesterday, he had seen it and said that if we could make it into a 40 page book he would maybe publish it for his childrens' book imprint so maybe we'll expand upon it at some point.