Comics Process

a post on technique

Hi You All,

Last week’s comics class was funnnnn – thanks so many of you showing up. I️ rambled about my process, we drew, I️ took people’s questions. You can watch a recording of it here.

I’d like to start doing things like this more regularly – and less messily. I’ll be back to work, more or less, mid July, and will set something up then.

You can see everyone’s comics and cartoons in my Substack chat (which I’d been planning to link to here, but I’m still not very fluent in the Substack app and I️ can’t figure out whether that’s possible). I have some talented, super-professional Substack readers. Please continue posting your stuff in that chat and comment on each other’s work?? Let’s get a little community going.

I’ll show you my short comic in a minute. Before that, a couple of links: you can follow my once wonderful Instagram here (I’m trying to be upbeat but also honest), buy some magnificently printed letterpress prints here, and the books I’ve put my soul into here. You can buy prints and books at Fishs Eddy near Union Square, which also sells pretty wonderful mugs with my drawings on them.

OK the Comic. It’s kind of a free-write for a graphic novel I’ve been slowly crafting these past 5 years called She-Devil — fiction, about the devil and her fall from heaven — more on that later; I’m quietly absorbed in it, and very tentative about it too. I’ll post the end of the short comic and a lot of process pics of how I️ made it behind the paywall. I’m cringing looking at the color - one day I’ll learn to do color better.